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Rap beefs are often ugly affairs, but by and large, no-one acts like a total baby. Sure, people may wave the white flag with their tail between their legs, but they don’t snitch about it. However, not all rappers are Drake who, while still dizzyingly popular (don’t doubt that), is really taking this particular Kendrick…
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Look, no-one likes to besmirch anyone’s hard work, but when a band has a stratospheric rise and a bunch of massive support gigs with next to no information on them and their rise, in 2024, people are going to get suspicious. So, just like those awful podcasts that hur-de-hur-hur and say “look man, we’re just…
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Anyone who knows anything about Jimmy Sommerville knows that he’s The People’s Champ. Always on the right side of history, and just so happens to be the writer of one of the most vital and important songs in pop history – ‘Smalltown Boy’. The song has found itself in a sticky place by people acting…
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After the absolutely breathtaking spectacle and culture event of the Kendrick/Drake feud, King Kenny wasn’t quite done. We knew he was planning a Super Bowl Halftime show, which honestly, isn’t likely to be half as good as his Pop Out show back in June where he invited half of Los Angeles on stage with him…
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Look, if you’re the kind of bozo that turns their nose up at jazz, look away now. Jeff Parker is a serious musician who likes to play. Now, you might be thinking of overtly worthy music that is meant to challenge and stimulate and all that – and while Parker is no slouch, there is…
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While we don’t profess to be experts in the ways of desert rock, and worry that we might be typing out ‘dessert rock’ by accident every time, we know what we like, and we like this new one from Dax Riggs. It’s a fine slab of desert sludge fuzz, and this is apparently Riggs’ first…
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French artist Oklou is a new one on us, and y’know, we could pretend that we’ve been all over her music for ages and we’re catching you slow pokes up, but that would be disingenuous. The news we read is that there’s a new album afoot called ‘choke enough’ and that’ll be out in February. We’re…
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Look, we don’t like mentioning Morrissey on here because he sucks, his music stinks, and The Smiths were crap as well. However, he is eminently mockable, and not all music writing (don’t ever call this journalism, for the love of all that’s holy) should be sweetness and light. Often, we don’t even think it needs…
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Some things go together like salt and pepper, sweet and sour, peaches and cream. Saying something is musically comforting can sound like you’re dismissing it, but far from the case with a new track from Snoop Dogg and Dr Dre, it sounds exactly like you want it to – soulful samples and West Coast is…
STOP HOARDING TUNES
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AI / DOES ANYONE CARE AS LONG AS IT SOUNDS OKAY?
People who write about music, overthink music, read books and websites about music, devour music documentaries and go on Wikipedia deep-dives, are not your average music listener. Don’t read that as ‘better’, rather, atypical. Think about it – there’s people out there who saw the Oasis reunion, but were completely unaware that Liam Gallagher just…
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SUKI’S ROCK N ROLL INJURY
Rock n roll is a perilous business at the best of times, what with the circus life trying to get you on the drink, drugs and a variety of sexually transmitted diseases. Spare a thought then, for poor ol’ Suki Waterhouse. The singer, songwriter and actor took to social media this week, and informed her…
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ROCHELLE JORDAN IS THE BEST
Rochelle Jordan started off as a woozy LoFi(ish) R&B singer, but since pivoting toward a modern take on Chicago House, she’s absolutely took off like a rocket! Seductive, smart, fun, classy – pretty much all of her releases have been top-tier. With that, she’s announced a new LP called ‘Through The Wall’, which we’ll be…
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NEW BOUNCY METRONOMY
Okay, it’s not quite new Metronomy, but we had to hook you in somehow. What we have here is a super fun remix of a Metronomy track from 1-800 GIRLS, which sounds like it should start cropping up on the dancefloors around the place, all things being fair. This is a remix of ‘Salted Caramel…
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