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Dolly Parton is great fun and it doesn’t matter if her new music is good or bad, because she’s a wonderful woman to have around. In super silly news, she’s announced she’s going rock. And because she’s fucking Dolly fucking Parton and she can do whatever the fuck she wants, she’s basically assembled an eye-watering…
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Ciara has sneaked back out and you’ll be glad to know it’s a breathy, slow number. In fact, it’s called ‘Slow’, which is handy! We’re going to ignore her terrible taste in men, as that’s for another time, but suffice to say, we like it when she makes music that’s for making out to, and…
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The Glastonbury Festival (or Pilton Pop Festival to ageing locals) can be annoying, but that’s probably down to being so ubiquitous, right? That said, looking back at it’s history is a potted history of British counterculture, especially when you get back to the heady days of the early ’70s when the hippie dream was still…
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Thanks to our brains being thoroughly banjaxed by various algorithms, sometimes you stumble across a corner of the internet and find yourself completely disorientated by what you’ve found. Considering the propensity for mad conspiracy theories and memes that have strayed so far away from the original joke that to understand it, it feels like you…
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This isn’t technically music, but pop culture counts, and we stumbled across a glorious DIY documentary of mall life in ’80s USA Candid interviews with kids hanging out, talking about buying records, flirting, shopping, smoking cigarettes and more. Great accents and haircuts galore. Enjoy.
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Grimes makes music and she’s got stuff to say about artificial intelligence. Now, there’s been a lot of chat about AI recently, as basically, it’s got sophisticated enough to start making soundalike songs of other artists, and this goes beyond parody and impersonation – it’s something new and weird, so we’ve got to have a…
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Great news pop fans! There’s going to be a biopic of Frankie Goes To Hollywood. We were going to make a literal ‘going to Hollywood’ pun, but decided to merely half-mention it instead for vague credit on a pun we had no confidence in, just in case it worked. Anyway, don’t they all deserve it?…
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Daft Punk are ace, and there’s still cool stuff in the hard drive it turns out, as they’ve put out a previously unreleased track that features The Strokes’ Julian Casablancas. This track is called ‘Infinity Repeating’ and is not to be confused with the other track they did with him. Great news too, that this…
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Janelle Monae has had an interesting career and it looks like more of the same with a new LP called ‘The Age Of Pleasure’ – and if you like your news to come ready made with some new music to listen to, you’re in luck – there’s a brand spanker called ‘Lipstick Lover’ to get…
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One of the weirder things about the coronation of Sausage Hands Charlie (amongst a myriad of utterly bizarre things, honestly – we’ll get to that at the end) regards a man sat in the throng who looked like someone in disguise. The internet had a laugh and joked that it was obviously Meghan Markle in…
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TURNSTILE ON Es?
Turnstile aren’t like other hard rock groups – you can hear the breadth of their influences on their records, as they clearly listen to more than just punk – there’s electronics, jazz, psychedelic indie, shoegaze and more in the mix, and they’re all the better for it. With that, we’re pretty convinced now that they like…
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REVIEW / BARKER / STOCHASTIC DRIFT
Writing about electronic music is not one of the easier things to do, especially when it is more abstract, and elegantly linear. With Barker’s ‘Stochastic Drift’, it’s worth it as an exercise though, as what we’ve been faced with is one of the finest electronic LPs we’ve listened to in ages. It’s part techno, part…
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HEY! NEW STEREOLAB!
All the cool kids and record-collectors love Stereolab, so obviously, we’re excited to share the news that the groop are back. It is their first LP in 15 years AND there’s a new single for you to listen to, too! The new track is called ‘Aerial Troubles’, while the long-player is called ‘Instant Holograms On Metal…
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BAD BUNNY / TINY DESK
We wrote a very enthusiastic review of the newest album from Bad Bunny, and honestly, that giddiness has only grown in the time since then. Well, he’s put a great little band together and he’s done a Tiny Desk show for NPR, and honestly, it’s an instant classic. Get stuck in.
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