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The 2024 Grammy nominations have been announced. Awards ceremonies suck, we know, we know. But honestly, more than ever, recent ceremonies gave seemed so wildly out of step with what people are listening to, and looking at this year’s Grammy nominations, we’re insert shrug emoji here. For starters – record of the year has the
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With a name like Annie-Claude Deschênes and a track called ‘Menace Minimale’ on a label called Italians Do It Better, you’d hope she’d be putting out pumping, darkwave synthpop, wouldn’t you? Good thing that this is exactly what we’re looking at here. She’s a member of Duchess Says, and this we think, is her first
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Frank Ocean is not a reliable source. That’s not a criticism per se, but it is something of a fact given the amount of times he’s done things his own way, shied away from the churn of pop culture, and all the rest. We only mention that because you should at least be allowed to
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Look, there’s no point pretending that the soul music released during the 1970s isn’t one of mankind’s greatest ever achievements. With that in mind, it’s not surprising that so many artists draw inspiration from that period. Sinkane’s new one – in tandem with Tru Osborne – is exactly that, and called ‘Everything Is Everything’ and
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Tierra Whack makes ace music and has confirmed that a new LP is on the way. She has a new single out to whet our whistles in the meantime, and it’s called ‘Chanel Pit’ and it’s a stop-start banger that has echoes of prime Missy Elliott on the drum machine beat, if more trappy sparse.
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We ranked every Girls Aloud single simply because we love them. We’d like to say we had inside information on them making a comeback, but we didn’t. We could pretend we did, but honesty is in such short supply in music journalism that we’re not going to try putting you on. The thing is though,
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The sister to The Pop Corps is the Free Range radio show, which is available online for your listening pleasure whenever you like. Next month of course, will be an End Of Year affair, where we look at the best music released in 2023. We’ve covered a lot of the songs over the months on
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It’s great having collectibles on your shelf isn’t it? Whether it’s Funko Pops of your fave horror films, art bits and cassettes when you don’t have a tape player, whatever. With that in mind, wouldn’t you like to have Eric B & Rakim on your shelf? Course you would! Eric B & Rakim are amazing!
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Music is a funny ol’ business, and in the days of streaming, something interesting has happened. Thanks to algorithmic sentiments, it feels like it’s never been harder for smaller artists to reach an audience. Radio play is decided by committees and focus groups, which leaves us with a trace amount of DJs playing whatever they
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Well, Spotify have decided the way to fix the broken royalties model is to stop paying small bands. Now, that’s not how they’ll be spinning it, but it’s the reality of the situation. See, Spotify have a problem with ‘noise’ tracks and those generating plays by making ‘non music’. So, to fix that, they’re going
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WATCH BRIAN WILSON BEING HAPPY
We’d need to dedicate a thousand words to the influence, genius, and all round wonder that is Brian Wilson, to pay tribute to him now he’s passed. However, we feel that right now, it’s better to watch Brian being really happy, performing the Smile suite with a band that loves the material as much as…
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REVIEW / MILEY CYRUS / SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL
When an artist makes certain demands to be taken seriously, more often than not, the knives come out. It may be unfair that the landscape of music journalism can praise one artist for having lofty ambitions, while deriding another for the same thing, but that’s always been the way. We find ourselves with Miley’s new…
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RIP, SLY STONE
Sly Stone has left the building, leaving behind a life and a career that eclipses most of what everyone else managed to cram in, combined. Seemingly against the odds, he managed to reach the grand old age of 82. His family issued a statement. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of…
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KING PRINCESS, UNHINGED
King Princess has announced a new LP called ‘Girl Violence’ and for the kind of fans who like saying that someone’s got them in a chokehold and hipsters who want to yelp parental yelps, this new stuff is going to do the trick by the looks of things. The album is out in September, and…
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