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News: New Model Army reveal new album and UK/European tour news

After 40 years Bradford’s national institiution New Model Army show no signs of slowing down, indeed hugely acclaimed albums Between Dog And Wolf (2013) and Winter(2016) showed that the band, with singer and original…

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Track: Kool Keith – Zero Fux (feat. B-Real)

Prolific rapper/MC and former Ultramagnetic MC’s/Dr. Octagon man Kool Keith has announced his new album. Simply called Keith, it has been produced entirely by The Beatnuts’ Psycho Les, and features…

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Track: Tenderlonious – Hard Rain

Not so much having finger in pies, more Ed Cawthorne, aka Tenderlonious, seems to have his own pie shop right at the moment. The flautist and sax player, DJ, producer,…

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News: Mute to reissue Suicide’s self-titled debut as part of the Art of the Album series

Suicide, the highly influential art-noise project of Alan Vega and Marty Rev, is having Mute’s Art of the Album treatment in a reisue of their 1977 debut album, due out…

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Album Review: Simon Bonney – Past, Present, Future

Crime & The City Solution front man Simon Bonney has drawn together songs from his last two albums – 1992’s Forever and Everyman from a couple of years later, along…

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Track: Major Lazer – Can’t take it from me, feat. Skip Marley

Diplo’s Major Lazer project, alongside MC Walshy Fire and Trinidadian Jillionaire, is back with a new track ‘Can’t take it from me’, featuring Skip Marley. Billed as a Jamaican commando character…

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Track: Bryony Jarman-Pinto – Saffron Yellow

Out rit now is ‘Saffron Yellow’, the new single taken from London singer-songwriter Bryon Jarman-Pinto’s debut album ‘Cage Anschluss Aviary’, out on Tru Thoughts on July 26th. “It’s based around…

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Track: Hot Chip – Hungry Child ( Paul Woolford remix)

Last month we saw news of a new album from Hot Chip, titled A Bath Full Of Ecstacy, out on June 1st, and followed it up with the brilliant Hungry…

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Track: Brian Eno – Like I was a spectator, plus Apollo reissue / new music news

There is new Brian Eno music on the horizon, quite literally actually. He’s to reissue his seminal soundtrack album ‘Apollo: Atmospheres & Soundtracks’, written with his brother Roger and Daniel Lanois…

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EP: Blaze featuring Palmer Brown – My Beat

If you know anything about house music, then you will know West London’s Slip ‘n’ Slide. Early releases from the likes of Blaze, X-Press 2, Masters At Work and Kings…

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