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ALBUM REVIEW: SHHE – ‘Re:’: remixers take her debut for a delightful spin deeper

Re: confirms SHHE as a great Scottish talent whose musics lend to steaming and bending into pretty new shapes. There’s a couple of artists working out in the sound forges where she is; but there’s a lot of room for music this good.

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NEWS: The Lathums announce Blackpool Tower live stream

WIGAN’S current chosen indiepop few, The Lathums, have announced a return to live performance for the first time since their sold-out February tour when they play the historic Blackpool Tower, just…

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Premiere: Post Yoga release video for brilliant new single, ‘Phil’

POST YOGA is the nom-de-plume of Bristol musician Chris Barrett, who began making music under that moniker after buying a £4 charity shop keyboard. Recorded on the floor of his…

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SEE: The video for Julia Jacklin’s ‘to Perth, before the border closes’ from her new Sub Pop 7″

IN MID-March, superb Australian alt.folk singer-songwriter Julia Jacklin was just one show from finishing a 12-month world tour for her second album, Crushing, when Scott Morrison, Australia’s prime minister, announced the country would…

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Film Review: Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins

The state of politics across the world is probably at its most lamentable levels since World War II. To say that it’s a profession which is currently attracting intellectuals would…

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EP Review: Flight to Dubai – Strife

It seems to me that Sydney’s Flight To Dubai walk that fine line between utter genius and compete madness. There is a hint of approaching chaos – an apprehension that…

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Album Review: Underground Lovers release surprise remix collection ‘Shadows’

Spanning their entire thirty career, the new collection of remixes from the legendary Underground Lovers is utterly sublime. It goes without saying that the flesh of a remix is only…

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See: Young Marble Giants live video ahead of Colossal Youth 40th anniversary edition

Out on November 27th via the ever brilliant Domino Recordings Is the 40th anniversary edition of Young Marble Giant’s one and only album Colossal Youth. The Cardiff trio, guitarist-songwriter Stuart…

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TRACK: The Kinks announce 50th anniversary reissue of ‘Lola vs. Powerman …’ – hear new track, ‘Any Time 2020’

THE KINKS’ eighth studio album, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, is just celebrating its half-century … a scary thought. A concept album without the twiddly bits, but…

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Track: Ed Nash drops Toothless moniker and releases new track ‘Think You Feel The Same’

Bombay Bicycle Club’s Ed Nash has resurfaced under his own name rather than his recent moniker Toothless, with a new song ‘Think You Feel The Same’, the first of a…

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ALBUM REVIEW: SHHE – ‘Re:’: remixers take her debut for a delightful spin deeper

NEWS: The Lathums announce Blackpool Tower live stream

Premiere: Post Yoga release video for brilliant new single, ‘Phil’

SEE: The video for Julia Jacklin’s ‘to Perth, before the border closes’ from her new Sub Pop 7″

Film Review: Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins

EP Review: Flight to Dubai – Strife

Album Review: Underground Lovers release surprise remix collection ‘Shadows’

See: Young Marble Giants live video ahead of Colossal Youth 40th anniversary edition

TRACK: The Kinks announce 50th anniversary reissue of ‘Lola vs. Powerman …’ – hear new track, ‘Any Time 2020’

Track: Ed Nash drops Toothless moniker and releases new track ‘Think You Feel The Same’