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We already told you that the Super Furry Animals are back, and you knew before we’d even told you – it’s good news for anyone who is a fan of psychedelic pop, glam stompers and adventures rock, right? Well, with the 20th anniversary edition of Love Kraft coming out, there’s a song from those sessions…
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Nardwuar might just be the nicest interviewer on the planet, with his deep dives and enthusiasm paired with his DIY aesthetic. He’s been at it for years and you wish him all the luck in the world as he scratches around record shops and basement shows, as well as interviewing some of music’s biggest names.…
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Nightlife is changing in the UK, and not for the better. Everything being more expensive is hurting businesses and customers alike, resulting in fewer people wanting to go out, and ultimately, it’s our sense of community and literal togetherness is lost. Another legend is closing their doors as G-A-Y in Soho have said that it…
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When you’re fully in the lore of standom, every utterance from your favourite artist is either an in-joke, or breadcrumbs to follow for some deeper meaning. And that’s where we’re at with the stratospherically successful Taylor Swift who, in terms of ticket sales and hit records, can basically do no wrong. However, what if you’re…
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If you thought the response from White America was bad after Kendrick’s Super Bowl halftime show, just wait until Bad Bunny does his set at the next one in February. Of course, Bad Bunny announced a world tour, and featured no shows in mainland USA, and has said that – rightly – he’d fear for…
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Chet Baker’s gentle jazz has endured all these years because it still sounds so cool, so smart, and a melancholy salve in chaotic times. With that, we’d like to share this clip from 1964, where Baker and his band offer a superb reading of ‘Time After Time’. You’ll notice Chet has a prominent tooth missing.…
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Magdalena Bay’s ‘Imaginal Disk’ taught po-faced indie kids that pop music was cool again, and mercifully, the album was an absolute treat for anyone who listened to it, existing pop fan or otherwise. Great news then, that the duo are back with a brace of new songs. The first is called ‘Second Sleep’, the second…
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Forget the comebacks of Blur, Suede, Oasis et al – the greatest rock group of the ’90s (and beyond) are coming back – it’s SUPER FURRY ANIMAL TIME! There’s going to be gigs and fizzy solos, head-melting synths and everything you love about SFA! There’ll also be a reissue of Love Kraft too, which is…
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Hannah Jadagu’s a new name to us, but is signed to Sub Pop, which is usually a sign of quality enough to be checking out. Hannah has a new LP coming out soon called ‘Describe’, and you can hear a great new song from it called ‘Gimme Time’, which is an ear-wormy, synthy, soulful thing…
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It’s a bad look when you’re recognising Palestine as a state one minute, but overseeing a system of law that’s trying someone who has been a vocal champion of that same place and the people within it. That’s what’s going down with the UK government and various politicians, who are looking at the terror charges…
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NEW BLOOD ORANGE FEELS LIKE HOME
Dev Hynes is a busy artist, so it is surprising he’s found the time to do any recording for his Blood Orange project, but we’re very glad he did. There’s a new track called ‘The Field’ which features The Durutti Column, Tariq Al-Sabir, Caroline Polachek and Daniel Caesar. Hynes also directed the accompanying music video…
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SPOTIFY & WAR TECH
One of the great enemies of culture and society in the 2020s, has been Big Tech. As convenient as the whole thing has been, younger people are getting subscription fatigue, social media seems to have been a failed experiment, and Big Tech got in bed with authoritarians and are the billionaire class. A point has…
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SABBATH EARLY STUFF
In the build-up to the last ever Black Sabbath gig, we’re now being treated to an album of the group’s early recordings – back then, they were simply called “Earth”, which is quite hippie of them. Either way, this is fun stuff for us dorks, and this material will be the first time it has been…
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GROOVEJET VS POSH SPICE
If the ’90s had The Battle of Britpop with Blur’s ‘Country House’ going up against ‘Roll With It’ by Oasis, the 2000s equivalent was a race for number one which has been somewhat forgotten in the intervening years. It was the battle of Posh versus Posher. The house underdog versus the footballer’s wife. And what…
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