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Album Review: Nickodemus – Soul & Science: flowing global beats for moving and messaging.

New York based sonic traveller, producer and DJ Nickodemus is one of those global beats’ touchstones. Motivating dancefloors across the continents since the mid nineties and founder of the world…

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Album Review: Hot Coppers’ self titled album is a pastoral indie pop masterpiece.

Melbourne-based band Hot Coppers has just released their new self-titled album and it is a whimsical joy. Tripping along with a pastoral pop bounce and burnished with intelligent, wry lyrics,…

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Album Review: Dead Famous People are back with a new album – the glorious shining ray of golden sunshine that is ‘Ballet Boy’.

A shimmering, blinding joy emanates from the new album by the enigmatic Dons Savage under the nom de plume of Dead Famous People. I’ve written before that there has to be…

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Album Review: Bala Desejo – Sim Sim Sim : The Rio band’s luscious debut marks a new MPB high-point.

For better or worse, most people have a COVID 19 story and that goes for the four young musicians at the centre of new Brazilian band Bala Desejo. Pre the…

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Album Review: Ricardo Dias Gomes – Muito Sol : re-imagining post rock with a tropicalia soul.

In the shimmers of the recent loss of Os Mutantes founder Rita Lee that follows Gal Costa’s passing last year it’s poignant to get a reminder that music doused with…

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Album Review: Anika – Eat Liquid

EAT LIQUID is a commissioned work I, Annika Henderson, aka ANIKA composed for and performed at the Zeiss Planetarium, Berlin, in collaboration with their visuals team, who provided a suitably…

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Say Psych: Album Review: Moonwalks – Western Mystery Tradition

Detroit via Brooklyn outfit Moonwalks have recently release Western Mystery Tradition, on Fuzz Club Records. Moonwalks are Kerrigan Pearce (drums), Jacob Dean (guitar), and Kate Gutwald (bass). Originating in Detroit’s…

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News: Jamws Shares Rich And Warming New Album ‘Soft’

Indie-come-alt-pop singer-songwriter Jamws shares the beautiful, heartfelt and musically warming new album ‘Soft’. Showcasing Jamws maturity as a songwriter, intricate and tight musical ideas, stadium filling guitar lines (often adorned…

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News: Rancid – ‘Tomorrow Never Comes’ (Hellcat Records)

June 1, 2023

So here we are 30 years after Rancid’s eponymous debut. The 10th studio album and 7th to be produced by Bad Religion and Epitaph head honcho Brett Gurewitz, Tomorrow Never…

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EP Review: psykhi – Forest People

psykhi’s unique blend of bedroom-pop, post-punk, indie and mild psychedelia shines on the new EP Forest People. Opening with the swelling organs, punching bass, Crunchy guitar, tom heavy boxy drums…

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