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With a band name like The Horrors, perhaps it is all a bit much to expect too much cheer on one of their records. With this being 2025, and their first LP arriving in 2007, it seems, The Horrors persist. They’ve ducked and dived in the shadows of their influences for years, touching on garage…
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Miley Cyrus has gone and announced her new album with a visual teaser. The LP will be called ‘Something Beautiful’, and it is billed as being something that is ‘hypnotic and glamorous’. It’ll be out May 30th. So what can we glean from the spurts of marketing from it? Well, it does seem to have…
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Andy Shauf knows his way around a melody, and along the way, has picked up a very dedicated set of fans. He’s got a band called Foxwarren, and they have a new tuneful number out called ‘LISTEN2ME’, and it’s great! There’s going to be a new album too, called ‘2’, which you’ll be able to…
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Look, sometimes you get a press release that’s so good, and so comprehensive, that there’s little point in trying to rewrite it and pass it off as your own. With that in mind, after this opening paragraph, we’ve just cut and pasted the whole thing and you’ll get all the info you need from it.…
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People who like Cass McCombs are a keen bunch, so they probably already know that there’s a new track from the man himself out. For the rest of us, he’s done a Tiny Desk show for NPR, and he included a new song in it, and we’re linking to the studio version for you to…
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It really is about time that Sister Rosetta Tharpe had a biopic, seeing as she influenced an entire generation of rock ‘n’ roll artists who came after her – a real trailblazer, and more importantly, in possession of a ferocious talent. With that in mind, a biopic we will get, and playing her will be…
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While we patiently wait for new music from Weyes Blood, the good news is that she’s covered a song for us to listen to. Of course, she’s got excellent taste and for the soundtrack for a TV show (‘Good American Family’, if you need to know), she’s covered Neil Diamond’s ‘Shilo’. Press play. Hopefully, some…
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That headline looks like some kind of bloody equation doesn’t it? Anyway, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have teamed up with rapper El-P, perhaps to the surprise of some. This collab is going to appear on Pigsx7’s new LP ‘Death Hilarious’, which you can hear on April 4th. Live shows imminent.
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He sold the idea of cooking to hipsters too cool to watch regular TV, he’s got a lot of tattoos, was in The Bear, is a restauranteur and all that jazz – now, Matty Matheson has announced he’s got a hardcore band called Pig Pen. He’s announced this on socials, so if you’re a fan,…
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We’ve heard a lot about the woes of the working classes in art and music of late, and it’s true, that it is harder than ever for people from low-income backgrounds to make it to the big stages, lacking the financial cushion of wealthy families while they’re scrabbling to get heard. Wigan indie band The…
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CELEBS IN SPACE IS THE NEW MARIE ANTOINETTE
Once, space travel was amazing. The adventure of the human spirit, going where no person had ever been before! We did it to learn, for science, for some kind of indomitable wanderlust and… now? Yuck. See, a bunch of billionaires have got their own space race going on, and those billionaires aren’t cool and have…
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NEW JAZZ FROM MARY HALVORSON
Jazz can be pretty impenetrable, what with it not getting much play on the radio and TV. However, the genre is in rude health and, one of the leading lights in the scene is guitarist and big brain composer Mary Halvorson. She’s got a new album coming out called ‘About Ghosts’, which you’ll be able…
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RIP, MAX ROMEO
Max Romeo has passed away, but leaves a huge legacy. One of the most celebrated vocalist to hail from Jamaica, he was used his words to spear the island’s class divide and uneven wealth, as well as being behind a legendary banned BBC record and one of the most iconic samples in dance music. He…
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NEW JAKOJAKO IS GREAT
We’ve been really enjoying the modular synth stuff of JakoJako, whether it’s 4/4 club music or the more elegant headphone stuff. She’s shared a new track which goes by the name of ‘Dragon Bridge’, and it is another gem! This will feature on new LP called ‘Tết 41’, which you’ll be able to hear on…
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