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Great news if you want to sit with a load of other people and watch the Eurovision Song Contest at high volume – it’s going to be broadcast in British cinemas for the first time ever. Of course, everyone was trying to get tickets for the show in Liverpool and the whole thing sold out…
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If you’ve made the killer Bollywood playlist to end them all on Spotify, you may have noticed that it’s not what it once was, and that’s because there’s hundreds of Bollywood music tracks missing on the platform, which is incredibly annoying. This has happened for boring business reasons, rather than anything actively nefarious. Spotify say…
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Little Richard has long been adored, but he never truly got his flowers like many of his contemporaries did. That’s about to change. And about fucking time. Director Lisa Cortés’ has made a documentary about the greatest rock ‘n’ roll singer of all time called ‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’, which not only looks at…
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Cameron Crowe – you know him from the brilliant but don’t think too hard about it or it ends up feeling a bit problematic Almost Famous – is apparently doing a movie about Joni Mitchell. Now, Joni is the realest of the real, so this feels long overdue, however, movies about musicians are often not…
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And that’s a good thing. Don’t worry about it.
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Mega Bog. That’s a mad band name isn’t it? They’re a band on Mexican Summer and largely speaking, that’s a record label you can trust. Well, Mega Bog have a new track out called ‘Love Is’ and it’s a tremendous, neon, shimmery thing that you’ll like. Erin Birgy from the band says of Westerman’s appearance…
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Don’t do it. It’s lame and lazy.
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Fans of drinking pints and classic Electro compilations – this is a niche but perfect article for you! For the 40th anniversary of the legendary comps, there’s some special beer being brewed, and boy, the whole thing is handsome and great. The beer is made by Deviant & Dandy who are an independent brewery producing…
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There’s a lot of doom-laden music knocking around at the moment. The magnificent and downright frightening Lankum have a new LP out and culty GOAT have been weirding everyone out again. Now, it’s the turn of Dorthia Cottrell who has a creeptacular psychedelic track out called ‘Harvester’. You assume this isn’t about filling your boots…
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These K-Pop bands are a massive, multi-million dollar business and on one hand, it’s great to see young pop fans getting into music that is spoken in something that isn’t English. However, there’s a big problem – what’s with all the Nazi stuff?! The most recent news concerns Chaeyoung who is a member of Twice.…
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M*RRISSEY: HE’S AWFUL CLICKBAIT AND SO IS THIS (+MILEY CYRUS)
Morrissey is routinely awful, and yet, there’s many people who give him the time of day still despite aligning himself with literal fascist politicians and saying ropey stuff about the people of other nations. With all that, many have speculated that Miley Cyrus’ withdrawal from his (next) LP was probably something to do with his…
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GETTING INTO MUSIC JOURNALISM (A LIAR’S GUIDE)
The world of music journalism is filled with entitled chancers and brazen liars. We don’t exclude ourselves from this, but we have the basic decency to embrace it. Given that music publications and departments at newspapers are incredibly keen to thwart any new blood treading on their toes and stopping anyone from getting in the…
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DAMEFRISØR WILL REMIND YOU OF JOY DIVISION AND THEY HAVE A NEW SINGLE
Baritone vocals, intense music, soundscapes about alienation in the inner city and videos shot in black and white with a twangy bass and everyone in long overcoats hoping someone asks them what new wave Polish cinema they’ve been watching? Sounds like Joy Division doesn’t it? Well, yes. If you like bands that either sound like…
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CARDI B RANTS ABOUT LETTUCE
Listen, you might think that this is some bozo article having a pop at Cardi B – but that couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, to use modern parlance, we’re shipping Cardi because she’s been ranting about the price of shopping for your groceries, and we agree wholeheartedly. On socials, she let fly…
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