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Kelela is back, and it’s a little bit different from the artist you knew. She’s burned down her socials and whatnot, to start afresh, which would point to her releasing a new album, or new ‘era’ if that’s your thing. You can listen to ‘Idea 1’ right now, of which she says is about “what…
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The latest radio show is here made by us – FREE RANGE / APRIL 2026 – and there’s loads of good music to be had and listened to for free, because that’s how we do things here, right? No sponsors – do it for the love of the game. There’s music from Trinidad, Brazil, Niger,…
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ARE BOARDS OF CANADA COMING BACK?! Look, something is happened, and while you’d be wise to not get too excited, it’s hard not to. They’ve not released anything since 2013 with ‘Tomorrow’s Harvest’, but now, they’ve sent some VHS tapes to some fans and as you’d expect, nothing is clear or straightforward. The people who…
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Aldous Harding has released a new track and what we’ve learned from it is, the new album of hers is shaping up to be very, very good indeed. The LP goes by the name of ‘Train on the Island’, and you can hear the whole thing on May 8th. The first single was ‘One Stop’…
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With Elmiene’s album, Ego Ella May’s new album ‘Good Intentions’ is a gorgeous one-two punch of jazzy R&B goodness. For fans of Gilles Peterson’s radio show, for Sade heads, for Neo Soul crunch types, for anyone looking for music that feels like jazz, but forward faces, Ego Ella May is the artist for you. Raised…
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With The Strokes announcing a new album, it’s probably a good time to have a rummage through their back catalogue on THEPOPCORPS, right? Lauded as game-changers and spearheads of the Indie Sleaze scene, they’re a group that never quite hit with us, even though on paper, they should have. Garage Punk sensibilities, New York trash,…
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Sabrina Carpenter seems to be living her best life these days, and that’s exactly the kind of thing you want to see your pop stars doing – nice clothes, drunk cigs and splashy pop videos where everyone gets to play dress up. Concerning the latter, she’s released a new video which you’re inevitably going to…
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The sponsors were pulling out, and the government were getting involved, so it isn’t surprising that the Kanye three night headliner set has seen Wireless Festival be fully cancelled. The UK government were talking about whether or not the artist would be allowed in the country, and have now fully blocked Kanye West’s travel to…
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Chanpan are from New York – which seems to be popping off as a city again these days, right? – and they’re a trio who make future facing, personality-led pop, which is no bad thing obviously if you’re in the market for something to get into. They’ve been making a decent amount of noise for…
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The Culture Minister – Ian Murray – has promised the “full commitment” of the UK government in a bid to remove the barriers around touring in the EU and UK, apparently. There’s been a lot of talk about this in recent years, with musicians hamstrung by bureaucracy and levies, while trying to earn a living.…
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MIGUEL NEW ONE
It’s a shame that Miguel memed so hard when he leg-dropped that poor woman at a show, because when he puts his mind to it, he’s one of the most idiosyncratic R&B singers on the circuit. With that, he’s got plans to release his first new LP in the best part of a decade, which…
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LADYTRON ARE BACK?
Cult favourites, Ladytron, look like they’re coming back. We say that because – for us at least – this song just dropped out of the blue, which is great news for all uber-cool electropopists around the world, right? They are apparently working on a new LP, and information about that is thin on the ground,…
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REVIEW / TCHOTCHKE / PLAYIN’ DUMB
Quite why Tchotchke aren’t fantastically well-known is beyond us. Sure, they’re not obsessively modern in their sound, but there’s other bands who look back to the ’60s and ’70s who have a platform that the greatest current girl group on the planet should also have. With each release, we’ve seen Anastasia Sanchez, Eva Chambers and…
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REVIEW / DAVID BYRNE / WHO IS THE SKY?
David Byrne is one of those artists that, to his legions of devotees, defies criticism. There’s a few artists like that, who when mentioned, people get that faraway look in their eyes and simply won’t hear anything said against them. It must be a nice place to be, if you’re David Byrne (although you worry…
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