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Film Review: ‘The Best Summer’ is a bittersweet time capsule of alternative music’s golden age

There is something almost unbelievable about The Best Summer. What began as footage shot casually by filmmaker Tamra Davis while accompanying the Summersault festival around Australia in 1995 and 1996 has…

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Track: Kim Gordon Drops ‘PLAY ME’ Title Track and Maps the Collapse of Culture in Real Time

Kim Gordon’s PLAY ME doesn’t just soundtrack the present, it interrogates it, threading together AI anxiety, cultural decay and dark humour into a restless, shape-shifting record that refuses easy answers.

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Track: Kim Gordon Confronts AI Anxiety on New Single ‘DIRTY TECH’

Kim Gordon’s ‘DIRTY TECH’ wrestles with the uneasy power shift between humans and machines, setting the tone for her upcoming album PLAY ME with grit, tension and dark clarity.

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News: Kim Gordon Sets Spring Dates Following PLAY ME Album Announcement

Kim Gordon has announced UK and European headline and festival dates for spring, following the release of her third solo album PLAY ME, due March 13 on Matador.

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