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There’s a new song from STRFKR (hey! That’s a naughty word hidden in there!) called ‘Under Water / In Air’ and it’s a very breezy, poppy bedroom indie song that sounds real nice on a Sunday morning. STRFKR’s Josh Hodges sez: “It was probably one of the most collaborative songs on the record. It started…
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There’s no point pretending you don’t like Daft Punk. They’re ace. Disco, bug-eyed filter funk, squelching nonsense and big ol’ doof doofs – they’re a barrel of fun and wear cool masks! Just because they had hits that were omnipotent doesn’t mean those hits weren’t wonderful! Now, we all know that Daft Punk split up…
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Good news Devo fans! You will soon be able to buy a fancy vinyl package of your fave art-punk boneheads, and it’s called ‘Art Devo 1973-1977’ and will be a 3xLP set, comprised of early stuff, rare stuff, previously unreleased stuff – one for the completists and nerds. Nice. It’s out April 19th and the…
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When Ryan Leslie is on form, he’s hard to beat. From ‘Diamond Girl’ to ‘I-R-I-N-A’, to ‘You’re Not My Girl’ and ‘Addiction’, R-Les was serving up bangers that were big, but should’ve been made even bigger. His production work with other artists was hot stuff too, with the mega ‘Long Way 2 Go’ with Cassie,…
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There’s been a lot of chatter around Luke Combs’ hit cover of ‘Fast Car’, a lot of furrowed brows and people wafting their forks pensively at dinner parties, about whether a country singer should be doing a song by a woman of colour, a woman people assume is gay (look, she might be, but she’s…
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In the corporate world, there’s this terrible pair of words that people use – “proactive” versus “reactive”. There’s something in it though, because we all know that there’s two types of people in the world. The first is someone who creates a parameter for a fun Spotify playlist. Maybe they come up with a scenario…
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Beth Gibbons is one of the good ones. Never needlessly hurried, she’s made incredible music with Portishead, and of course, she’s done other work like the folkie numbers with Rustin Man and Paul Webb. Well, she is back again with her debut solo LP ‘Lives Outgrown’. “As usual it reflects what’s been going on with…
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Lana Del Rey has a new LP coming out called ‘Lasso’, which means she’s going country, and honestly, it’s a move that feels right doesn’t it? Long an admirer of the aesthetic of faded glamour, big hair and broken women, Hollywood and rhinestones, Lana’s version of country music is likely to be that good kinda…
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They’ve chirpsed half your mates, given three of them STDs and referred to every single one of their exes as ‘mental’, and they got promoted at the bar they worked at, in part, for coming up with a mildly successful drink, in part because they’re willing to get bags in midweek and split them with…
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TikTok are new media, and by and large, record companies are resolutely middle aged. With that, social media and physical media are going to be at loggerheads, and this time, it’s Universal Music who are at it, and they’re going to pull all their music from TikTok in the coming days, after failing to reach…
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ROSALIA + BJORK + YVES TUMOR
As we kinda expected, Rosalia’s new single is not one for the dancefloor. That’s not a criticism – more a statement of fact. Heavy orchestral business, very grand and will surely be a curtain dropper at any shows, it features Bjork and Yves Tumour too! The upcoming album is called ‘LUX’ and, as we previously…
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THE MUSIC OF THE BEATLES TV SHOW 1965
Have you seen ’65 show where a bunch of The Beatles contemporaries perform the music of the group? Hosted by Lennon and McCartney, offbeat humour, fun stage design and barnstorming performances from Lulu, our Cilla, Marianne Faithfull, the boys themselves, and more, this was broadcast just two weeks after ‘Rubber Soul’. Not too shabby eh?…
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PULLMAN BACK!
You may be aware that Tortoise have a new album out in November – the first in almost a decade – but add to this, a new record from Tortoise-related group Pullman. That’s their first in TWENTY FIVE YEARS! Some wait, that. The last albums were ‘Turnstiles & Junkpiles’ and ‘(viewfinder)’, the latter in 2001…
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BICEP WITH THE BEATS
BICEP are responsible for a number of big sweaty dance tracks and they’re at it again with a new collab with Eliza, which obviously, you can hear below or else why would we be writing about it, right? Hailing from Northern Ireland if you’re updating your files, the pair have announced ‘CHROMA 000’ which is a…
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