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Born in a Derbyshire village in 1941, little did the residents of the High Peak village know that a legend had been born. Vivienne Westwood left Tintwistle for the big smoke to attend art school, but she only lasted one term, because frankly, formal training wasn’t needed for what she was about to give the
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We can’t imagine we’ll be featuring a huge amount of ice hockey on these pages, but then again, how many surprisingly good disco LPs are based around tips from a professional hockey player? Guy LaFleur died in 2022, and was a Canadian hockey legend, and he once released an LP where he gave training advice
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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
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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
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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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You are 100% supposed to have heard about every single band at all times and every new release and if you don’t I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU HAVEN’T HEARD OF THEM! Of course, that’s nonsense. We just heard about a band from Maastricht called YIN YIN. They’re great. Psychedelic, danceable, very fun indeed. Bet they’re cool
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The headline is the message. Have a good one. Drink too much and be lazy. Got any Rennies? Love you x
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DJing is hard. For most DJs, there’s no security and a host of very drunk people telling you that they would like you to play something else. You do 5 or 6 hour sets and your knees and back hurt. There’s no groupies, because everyone’s getting off with everyone else while you’re stood in a
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It’s a terrible state of affairs trying to keep your pages fresh with new content, so sometimes, what you have to do is write about literally nothing. That’s exactly what we’re doing here. Don’t complain about feeling short-changed, because we were upfront about this fact. We were upfront about it in the opening paragraph and,
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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WE NEEDED MOUSTACHE TYLER
Tyler dropped a new album (or is it a mixtape? That line is blurred these days). Whatever it is, it is a load of fun and almost made us think that he’s the natural heir to The Neptunes. He’s something of an auteur, and rap always needs those. One thing we learned is that we…
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TCHOTCHKE DON’T MISS
The amount of praise we throw at Tchotchke must make some people wonder if we’re on the payroll or something, but rest assured, we’re just big fans. And luckily for us and everyone else, there’s yet more music out in the shape of the new song ‘Now I Love You’. This one is a drumless,…
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10 SONGS WITH CARLY JEAN ANDREWS
One of our favourite illustrators on the planet right now is the supremely talented and unique Carly Jean Andrews. Based out on the West Coast of the United States, she’s been winning hearts with her bold, brilliant art for a while now. Her work touches on a host of things, including complex, ’70s inspired typeface…
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AI + ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM
Questioning the net value of new technologies is always a worthwhile endeavour, and of course, artificial intelligence is the latest hot topic on everyone’s lips because, on the surface, it’s a technological miracle – but it comes with concerns. The scraping of other people’s words, art, music and the rest, is definitely stealing rebadged as…
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