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Twitter is facing a massive lawsuit filed by a coalition of 17 music industry entities, and two things – it’s not necessarily in our nature to take the side of Big Music Business, and this may well be rotten news in terms of musicians’ ownership and copyright – we really aren’t sure. However, this is…
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There’s a new tune from OSEES called ‘GOON’ and honestly, it’s like someone dropping an anvil on your head from the top of some flats. We mean that in a good way of course. And you might be like ‘wasn’t their a band called The Oh Sees as well?’ It’s the same crowd. See, the…
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Bonnie Raitt is, without doubt, one of the realest to ever do it. With success coming relatively late into her career, what we’ve ended up with is an artist that obviously knows her worth, but is also still grateful and ultimately incredibly humble. In Manchester, Bonnie took to the stage with her incredibly capable band…
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One of the greatest summer songs ever recorded is ‘Music Sounds Better With You’ by Stardust, which you’ll no doubt know was by French house legends Thomas Bangalter (of Daft Punk fame), Alan Braxe and vocalist Benjamin Diamond. Released in 1998, it’s still as infectious as ever and it’s not quite summer ’til you had…
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We didn’t quite know how to word the headline but wanted to let you fans of Jim Noir and Soundcarriers know about a new LP that needs to be on your radar. The new album is from Co-Pilot who are comprised of Alan Roberts (Jim Noir) and Leonore Wheatley (The Soundcarriers, International Teachers of Pop) – both…
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The marvellous Be With Records have a number of test pressings for sale, which will be a cool and fun thing to add to your record collection. They haven’t put a single dud out to date, so you know the music will be great too! They’re limited in number, so don’t mess around pondering it…
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Charif Megarbane is Habibi Funk’s first contemporary signing, which is a thrill! There’ll be a new LP (which sounds ace) called ‘Marzipan’ released on 11th August 2023. You’ll know Habibi Funk’s incredible output with an insanely high hit-rate of compilations of Middle Eastern and North African music – seriously, there’s no duffers in the catalogue,…
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This is totally on us really, but we assumed Devendra Banhart was still making acid-folk, but we’re basing that on information in our head that is well over a decade old. Anyway, if you’re not surprised, we were taken aback by his new single which is all synthy and fully produced (by Cate Le Bon,…
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Do you like the Allah-Las? Great news for you is that they’ve announced a new album called ‘Zuma 85’ and there’s a tour afoot and two new songs for you to listen to. The first new song we’ll share is called ‘The Stuff’ which will be a familiar sound to fans, with twangy psych guitars…
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The big news is that we’re going to have some new music from The Beatles this year. Will it be great and better than anything they’ve done before? Probably not, but this is still exciting stuff for Fab Four Dorks around the world. We’re excited. Paul McCartney says he’s used artificial intelligence to help create…
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MICHAEL HURLEY, RIP
One of outsider folk’s greatest, Michael Hurley, has passed away aged 83. The sad news was confirmed by his family. Hurley was an influence on a host of artists and responsible for some of the greatest slices of American freak-country ever recorded. In a statement to Rolling Stone, they said: “It is with a resounding sadness…
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TURNED OUT WU LYF WERE COMING BACK
Remember us telling you that we thought WU LYF were coming back? Turns out they were. And if you like them, then there’s a new song to listen to and… well… a lot of words to read. We’ll get to that. This is their first new song in a decade, after the LP ‘Go Tell…
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KRAFTWERK + DAFT PUNK FRAUD
Former Kraftwerker, Wolfgang Flür, was all excited that he’d done a track with Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter. However, like many older people online, he was tricked by someone in the DMs. Poor old Wolfgang. He’d been teasing as such, for his latest LP ‘Times’, where he said that Thomas was working with Flür under a pseudonym…
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ANIMÉ BRINGS SUMMER
Hey! Happy Monday to you. If you’ve been appreciating how summer is drawing nearer and the weather generally feels a bit warmer and nicer, then you’re probably going to like the new one from tuneful rapper Aminé. The track is called ‘Familiar’, and has echoes of the music he made with KAYTRANADA as KAYTRAMINÉ. Of…
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