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New Music: Bubblegum Lemonade – Have you seen Faith?

Bubblegum Lemonade is an offshoot of sorts for Lawrence ‘Loz’ McClusky, who is usually one half of Strawberry Whiplash with Sandra McClusky. He makes what is essentially pure jangly indie-pop…

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News: Wet Nuns announce album release and tour dates

Names. It was the thing that caused the most consternation in our house upon the birth of my daughter. I liked the flowery names; Daisy, Poppy – stuff like that.…

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EP: FunkinEven – Species EP

I’m useless with technology. Really – I’ll give you an example. The band I’m in on occasion did a pop festival in Aarhus, Denmark. It was a good bill, which…

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Track: Sam Smith – Safe with me

If I were to strip a Car down, I would find that if it were a Porsche it would have fantastic manufacturing, fantastic engineering and the best components available, and…

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See: Vuvuvultures release new video for Steel Bones, plus album launch news

Why is it scary stuff happens in Car Parks in films and TV. Yet in my life nothing even remarkable has happened in a Car Park. Once, when I was…

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See: New Video drop from Gentleman’s Dub Club for ‘Give it away’

We used to live in a flat in London. It wasn’t the biggest block of flats in the world, but there were about twelve flats in the block. We had…

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Feature: LCD Soundsystem – James Murphy Is Playing At My House

Last night I finally watched LCD Soundsystem’s swan song live documentary Shut Up And Play The Hits. While it didn’t move me quite like I’d hoped it would(an 8 year…

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Track: Ming City Rockers – Chic and the Motherfuckers

I have this friend. we went to University together. Just two ordinary slackers – when it was cloudy/rainy we played Snooker, when it was sunny we played golf. On…

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Track: The Joys of Sleeping release new track, Dude York parts I & II

I like sleeping. That feeling when you wake up and you don’t really know what time it is, or it’s much brighter than you expect is a wondrous thing. And…

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Feature: Bella Union’s world domination plan running to schedule; a Tramlines perspective

TWENTY YEARS AGO, as the Cocteau Twins conceived the idea of self-releasing as an antidote to the sting of broken relationships with record labels, little could they have imagined the…

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New Music: Bubblegum Lemonade – Have you seen Faith?

News: Wet Nuns announce album release and tour dates

EP: FunkinEven – Species EP

Track: Sam Smith – Safe with me

See: Vuvuvultures release new video for Steel Bones, plus album launch news

See: New Video drop from Gentleman’s Dub Club for ‘Give it away’

Feature: LCD Soundsystem – James Murphy Is Playing At My House

Track: Ming City Rockers – Chic and the Motherfuckers

Track: The Joys of Sleeping release new track, Dude York parts I & II

Feature: Bella Union’s world domination plan running to schedule; a Tramlines perspective