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There’s few joys in life that are nicer than tripping over an album completely by chance and finding that it’s an absolute romp of toytown psychedelic and glorious shed pop! While acid-songwriters in the pomp of the ’60s had huge studios, endless tape and orchestras, since then, things have retreated and paired down. The ambition…
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Bob Dylan is contributing a song to a new biopic about the life of Ronald Reagan and we absolutely want to mention the massive rumour relating to the phrase ‘THROAT GOAT‘. If you don’t know the rumour, then you’re really missing out. However, we’ve got more factual based things to talk about. The new movie…
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It really is a sorry state of affairs in the music industry outside of the few who can fill huge outdoor arenas and stadiums – and even some of those are struggling. Companies and venues are taking a cut of bands selling merch, there’s no money in streaming, you have to pivot to being a…
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Chappell Roan’s rise to fame has been sudden and very interesting. Often, meteoric rises are met with suspicion and chatter about being an industry plant and all that – but for our money, no such thing could be levelled at Roan given her very obvious and striking talent. Add to this, her whole personality is…
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The good folks at Light in the Attic have a brilliant compilation out called ‘Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996‘ which looks at the Ukraine music scene from the aforementioned dates – obviously, during this time, the region was under strict Soviet control, so there’s a lot to dig into spiritually too. The…
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We all love Prince, so any trace of the Purple One’s music is always a treat since he departed. Usually, Prince influence means clean twangy guitars and a falsetto over some digital funk, and it’s not always something that ends in great results because… well… not everyone is able to be Prince, right? No such…
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Look, you probably already know that Larry Levan is DJing royalty, a pioneer, a legend and all that good stuff. If you don’t, then you’re in for a treat when you Google his name and look into his history! With that, here’s a killer mix from the Paradise Garage in 1985, which Defected Records shared…
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You don’t need an essay on this one from us. Lisa is a Thai pop-rapper who you might know from Blackpink. Rosalia is the best thing to come out of Spain since tiki-taka. The pair have teamed up on a lovely slice of futuristic pop, all clattering and hooky, and while we’ll need to sit…
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We don’t know everything and daily, we stumble across things completely new to us and think “OH! THAT’S INTERESTING!” Today, is one such day with a piece of music that is almost completely alien to us, but we listened to it half a dozen times and figured it needed sharing. The artist is Leila Abdul-Rauf…
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George Harrison accidentally invented the charity concert when he did his ‘Concert For Bangladesh’, which means he is accidentally responsible for Bono singing ‘tonight thank god it’s them instead of you’ for Band Aid. Still, these are good things all told and in 1971 he got a bunch of pals together for a big show…
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WHERE ARE THE YG THINK PIECES?
“When I was young, I got raped by a bitch twice my age.” The opening line to YG’s recent single ‘2004’ there, to almost zero column inches or thought. While music journalism focused once again on Kanye’s latest implosion, Kneecap’s politics and gamely filling up pages with Korean pop in the hope to grab some…
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TWO FROM TURNSTILE
We’re fast getting obsessed with Turnstile. They’re no ordinary hardcore band, and wear a variety of influences on their sleeves, with a richer sound that simply whacking you over the head with breakdowns (which obviously, is fun in its own right). This new run of music had us wondering if they’d gone a bit Balearic…
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EVEN MORE STEREOLAB!
There’s no-one quite like Stereolab, so it feels really good to have them back. All your record collector mates will feel at peace and like summer is truly here, now that the groop are releasing records they can name all the influences from. It’s a heartwarming thing and mercifully, the new material is as good…
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REVIEW / SELF ESTEEM / A COMPLICATED WOMAN
When Rebecca Lucy Taylor burst out, upwards and in every direction, with the sensation that was ‘Prioritise Pleasure’, it was a refreshing tone of voice which mixed camp winks and nudges in the ribs, with some loud proclamations of womanhood that felt modern, authentic and, perhaps most importantly, witty. While a lot of music aimed…
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