Obituary – Tony Allen
Tony Olidapo Allen was born in Nigeria in 1940, and is regarded as the one of the principal founders of Juju and Afrobeat. A self-taught musician, being around Lagos at…
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Not Forgotten: Peter Gabriel – Peter Gabriel [3]
After an interesting debut and a flop follow-up, Peter Gabriel had to pull out all of the stops for his third album. Too many frontmen had gone solo, released a…
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Track: Sub Focus & Wilkinson – Just Hold On
Electronic music royalty Sub Focus are back with a new single ‘Just Hold On’, out right now. It’s taken from what they refer to as a long form album project…
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ALBUM REVIEW: Car Seat Headrest – Making A Door Less Open
Car Seat Headrest – helmed by ridiculously talented and prolific songwriter Will Toledo – release much anticipated album “Making a Door Less Open” today, on Matador Records. It’s their first…
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Premiere: Cate Ferris – Keep Going
Brighton-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Cate Ferris wanted to offer some solidarity and hope to all of us either stuck inside or working on the front line in the battle against…
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Track: Prudence – Heart Sways
If you caught Australian act DMA’s brilliant live performance live at the Brixton Academy in the UK, streamed twice over the past few days, you might have noted bass player…
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EP: Destrends – Wastelands
Destrends have produced an explosive post-punk EP that recalls an eighties Australian post-punk mentality epitomised by bands like Midnight Oil and Spy Vs Spy: vibrant, passionate and intelligent, danceable and…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: See: Medhane releases new video for Allegedly
Brooklynite Medhane looks out his window and doesn’t like what he sees. Medhane pulls in Chuck Strangers on the beats, which sees the Brooklyn emcee lay down his inventive verses…
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Droppin’ Knowledge: Track: Earl Sweatshirt – Whole World
Earl Sweatshirt and his LA buddy Maxo get existential on a new track for Earl’s Feet of Clay, “Whole World.” Fellow Los Angeleno The Alchemist works his magic on the…
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See: Doomshakalaka releases new video for ‘One Last Saturday Night
Doomshakalak is, essentially, Paul Rafferty – former vocalist and bassist for much missed Liverpool indie band Hot Club De Paris, in his new guise. Ahead of his debut Self-titled album,…
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