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The big news is that we’re going to have some new music from The Beatles this year. Will it be great and better than anything they’ve done before? Probably not, but this is still exciting stuff for Fab Four Dorks around the world. We’re excited. Paul McCartney says he’s used artificial intelligence to help create
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We were going to write a piece about the music in the brilliant and often bizarre world of I Think You Should Leave. If you’ve not seen it, then half the memes on the internet probably don’t make a lick of sense to you. Go and watch it. Anyway, we said we were going to
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Hype can be a terrible thing, leaving us plebs feeling like a moment has shot it’s load before you’ve even got a chance to digest the damned thing. In a period where everything has felt frantic, fraught, and fucking shite, we could all do with a dose of something camp and ridiculous to cheer us
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British Blues legend, prog overlord and axe-master, Tony McPhee from The Groundhogs, has sadly passed away. In a FB post on the group’s page, it said: “We are deeply saddened to announce that 79-year-old guitar and blues legend Tony (TS) McPhee, died peacefully at home today 6th June, from complications following a fall last year.”
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Not a thing we thought we’d be writing in a headline, but here we are. Fact is, the pair have been spotted out together a bunch, and obviously, men and women couldn’t possibly be platonic friends without bumping uglies in the mind of everyone, so what’s the craic? After posting some photos on Instagram featuring
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We’re still on holiday, but this tee was too good to not share. If you know Turbo Island, you’ll know that’s the place to get the best music t-shirts when it comes to wit, super fun graphic design, and letting your music nerd flag fly. Silly tees about Italo Disco, Todd Rundgren, Arthur Russell and
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Pip Blom are cool. We liked that album they did. It might have been the last one. They may have done one since then, we don’t know. It doesn’t matter too much because when you hear someone say that a band is cool, you should go and check them out. Stop pretending you’re too busy
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Tove Lo, when she’s on form, is a tour de force. There’s not many better euphoric pop songs than ‘Disco Tits’ and, honestly, there’s not many better euphoric pop song titles better than ‘Disco Tits’ either. She’s had a number of belters (and some we’re less keen on, but we won’t police your thoughts by
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Andrew Gold is a brilliant man and he’s been behind a series of incredible pop songs that are the living embodiment of West Coast perfection. He’s a nepo baby, sure, but we don’t hold it against people who make brilliant things. ‘Thank You For Being A Friend’, ‘Lonely Boy’, ‘Never Let Her Slip Away’, ‘How
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CASS MCCOMBS WRITES GOOD SONGS
Cass McCombs really does write good songs. He likes a hook, a chorus, a decent melody, and all those things that makes you glad that there’s still people around who like to include all these things in their music. There’s a new album due from him called ‘Interior Live Oak’ which is out in August,…
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KIM GORDON VS MAGA
Aside from the countless, despicable things being undertaken by the US government in recent years, one of the things that really sticks in the craw is just how they claim to be tough and uncancellable, while being the biggest, pearl clutching soft-arses on the planet. Sure, the terminally online left may seem like they’re out…
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MAVIS STAPLES X FRANK OCEAN
Mavis Staples is great and we should sing her praises every chance we get. There’s nothing she can’t sing or add something to, and from spearheading Southern Soul and gospel, to pallying up with The Band, it’s great she’s still got some surprises left in her. With that, she’s released a cover of Frank Ocean’s…
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PHOENIX DEMO ON YOGHURT
Phoenix are great and we especially love their debut album ‘United’, as it basically preempted rock music falling in love with 70s soft rock and 80s production again. Between them and their pals Daft Punk, their love of AOR and wonky Beach Boys LPs paved the way for Yacht Rock’s revival, disco’s renaissance and the…
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