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  • BILLIE EILISH VS CHARLI XCX [TRAFFIC BAIT]

    Billie Eilish and Charli XCX have joined forces on a song. It is part of a deluxe version of the ‘BRAT’ album, which all the popstars are doing at the moment to bump up the streams and sales. It’s canny marketing, but you wonder if fans will cool on buying albums when they come out

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  • WATCH BLUR AT WEMBLEY

    There’s a film due out in September which surrounds Blur’s Wembley foray, which honestly, looks like a real nice time. It’s basically nice to see the gang back together and Damon and Graham being pals again. There’s a clip of their performance of ‘Beetlebum’ you can watch, which not only shows the magnitude of the

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  • HERE’S THE BRILLIANT NEW ONE FROM THE JUNIPERS!

    We promised we’d share the new video from The Junipers when we had it, and here it is! It’s a wonderful nugget of sunshine super pop, with hooky organ and dreamy psychedelia. If you’re into popsike, Emitt Rhodes and all that good stuff, you’ll love The Junipers already no doubt. In case you’re new here,

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  • LAEL NEALE’S ELECTRIC NEW SONG!

    We’ve featured Lael Neale before and like her music a lot. It’s a kinda Velvetsy, kinda singer-songwritery music that is varied and sure footed and really turns our dials! ‘Electricity’ is the name of her new single and it’s got a fun, charming video to accompany it, which you can watch below. Neale says, “I

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  • IT IS PARTLY YOUR FAULT THAT YOU THINK EVERYTHING SUCKS?

    Everything is not as good as it used to be, music is worse, music journalism is doomed, the radio is bad, there’s nothing on TV, whatever happened to that good ol’ rock ‘n’ roll?, it’s all autotune, the DJs don’t even beat match, its all Tik Tok dances and blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda,

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  • BEST TINY DESK CONCERTS

    Ranking things is such a pointless and ugly endeavour. However, it is not beneath us to be either of those things in a futile bid to create some false engagement while people disagree or agree with you. With that, we’re not going to rank every Tiny Desk concert from the lovely folks at NPR, because

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  • MORE GLORIOUS ACTION FROM THE JUNIPERS

    You already know how amazing The Junipers are, and that they’re just about the most perfect sunshine pop band in the entire universe. The last single was a beautiful, hopeful return to form and we’re genuinely thrilled to learn that there’s even more to come and we won’t have long to wait to hear it!

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  • CHER’S MEMOIR SHOULD BE GOOD

    Cher has lived enough to fill a thousand lives – so it is great news to hear that she has been beavering away on her laptop (or dictating it to someone else while eating grapes and doing pilates) to give us all the details of her life so far in memoir form. Or rather, memoirs

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  • BRIA SALMENA’S COUNTRY ROAD TRIP

    Fans of Orville Peck may recognise Bria Salmena from playing in his live band. Well, good news for Western-inflecked road-trip music lovers is that Bria has a solo record out. ‘Bending Over Backwards’ is Salmena’s debut solo cut under her own name and signed to Sub Pop, these are all good reasons to press play

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  • RYAN LESLIE GETS HIS FLOWERS ON TINY DESK

    Listen. Anyone who is a fan of Ryan Leslie is already rabidly so need no further hype. However, we’re going to get excited all the same! R-Les is responsible for some of the finest R&B known to man, and while his career has been great, it is true that he never crossed over like many

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  • THIS ATCQ VIDEO IS FULL OF PURE JOY

    90s hip hop fans can be very irritating indeed BUT we shouldn’t let gatekeeping Old Heads stop us enjoying the music right? Right. So with that, A Tribe Called Quest are great aren’t they? They never seem to be in the conversation when people are talking about Who Is Best, even when that conversation is…

  • NALA SINEPHRO MAKES YOU FLOAT TWO FEET OFF THE GROUND

    More new music which is great that we won’t talk about too much initially, because you can ignore us and just listen to it below. However, for enthusiasm and padding an article out’s sake, Nala Sinephro is fantastic. It’s part ambient, part jazz, all fantastic. It’ll make you feel like you’re in one of those…

  • DO YOU FEEL PRICED OUT OF GOING TO GIGS?

    The price of things are going up, but wages aren’t. It’s a thing that always happens when anyone in any position of power naively believes in trickle down economics. The fact is – and we all know this – rich folk like hoarding their money or spending it on themselves. Add a host of other…

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