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"I heard the song ā€˜Vamos Companeros’ [around 2012]. I was working on an animation project, doing a bunch of stop-motion, and I just left that track on a loop for three days. We ripped off a bit of that for ā€˜Quartz’" #TundeAdebimpe of TV On The Radio on Harmonia & Eno ’76 -

"I heard the song ā€˜Vamos Companeros’ [around 2012]. I was working on an animation project, doing a bunch of stop-motion, and I just left that track on a loop for three days. We ripped off a bit of that for ā€˜Quartz’"
 
#TundeAdebimpe of TV On The Radio on Harmonia & Eno ’76 -
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'Best-known for 2009s Eagle, which drew from the traditional music of the Kazakhs in the autonomous Xinjiang region of China, here Mamer performs only with a nylon string guitar, returning in minimal style to the music of his youth' Mamer é©¬ęœØå°” - Awlaā±Ŗta / Afar 离 - Radical

'Best-known for 2009s Eagle, which drew from the traditional music of the Kazakhs in the autonomous Xinjiang region of China, here Mamer performs only with a nylon string guitar, returning in minimal style to the music of his youth'
 
Mamer é©¬ęœØå°” - Awlaā±Ŗta / Afar 离 - Radical
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'Maybe #ZZTop, but not for three albums in a row. Maybe #VanHalen, but only on 1984. Maybe #LedZeppelin, on ā€˜Good Times Bad Times’, the first half of Zoso, and otherwise in their dreams. Maybe #ThinLizzy...' Which run of 3 Rock albums would you consider to be challengers to

'Maybe #ZZTop, but not for three albums in a row. Maybe #VanHalen, but only on 1984. Maybe #LedZeppelin, on ā€˜Good Times Bad Times’, the first half of Zoso, and otherwise in their dreams. Maybe #ThinLizzy...'

Which run of 3 Rock albums would you consider to be challengers to
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#Suede have unveiled a new song. ā€˜Antidepressants’ was recorded live at their triumphant Alexandra Palace gig in the summer of 2024, and can be heard here: buff.ly/i6PlYPV

#Suede have unveiled a new song. ā€˜Antidepressants’ was recorded live at their triumphant Alexandra Palace gig in the summer of 2024, and can be heard here:

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With our Three Album Run series covering AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black, we have Anniversary essays on two of that triumvirate, as well as Viv Albertine’s Baker’s Dozen, the Strange World of Bjƶrk, Noel Gardner’s brilliant Low Culture Essay on Viz magazine...

With our Three Album Run series covering AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black, we have Anniversary essays on two of that triumvirate, as well as Viv Albertine’s Baker’s Dozen, the Strange World of Bjƶrk, Noel Gardner’s brilliant Low Culture Essay on Viz magazine...
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Today, 13 May 2025, is the 50th anniversary of the first performance by #CabaretVoltaire. This will be commemorated in October by a live collaboration by founding members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder as Cabaret Voltaire Redux buff.ly/P1gzgZy

Today, 13 May 2025, is the 50th anniversary of the first performance by #CabaretVoltaire. This will be commemorated in October by a live collaboration by founding members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder as Cabaret Voltaire Redux

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'Throughout Golliwog, Woods explores being disfigured by history, by fame, by violence, by memory. The title itself reclaims a racial slur and repurposes it into armor.' #BillyWoods - Golliwog buff.ly/w6Ek8eV Backwoodz Studioz

'Throughout Golliwog, Woods explores being disfigured by history, by fame, by violence, by memory. The title itself reclaims a racial slur and repurposes it into armor.' 

#BillyWoods - Golliwog 

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JaŔa Bužinel reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack Hyperspecific: #ElectronicMusic for May

JaŔa Bužinel reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack 

Hyperspecific: #ElectronicMusic for May
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With only ten days to go until the return of Pewsey's Acid Horse festival, Noel Gardner picks out 10 must-sees at this year's edition, from Matmos to Milkweed via ballroom-gone-industrial, Eastern Bloc alt pop, psychic drone and much more There are a few weekend tickets left,

With only ten days to go until the return of Pewsey's Acid Horse festival, Noel Gardner picks out 10 must-sees at this year's edition, from Matmos to Milkweed via ballroom-gone-industrial, Eastern Bloc alt pop, psychic drone and much more 

There are a few weekend tickets left,
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'Powerage is also beloved by skinheads, who always saw AC/DC as part of the Oi! lineage, both for the band’s working class bonafides and by dint of the band members being at least skinhead adjacent when they were sharpie tweens' Three Album Run: AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell

'Powerage is also beloved by skinheads, who always saw AC/DC as part of the Oi! lineage, both for the band’s working class bonafides and by dint of the band members being at least skinhead adjacent when they were sharpie tweens'

Three Album Run: AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell
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'Moments of bliss and wonder swirl like flecks of rain on a cold, bright morning throughout the third solo album by experimental sax player Cole Pulice. Melodies flutter in and out of focus, veiled by rising gusts of distortion' cole pulice - Land’s End Eternal

'Moments of bliss and wonder swirl like flecks of rain on a cold, bright morning throughout the third solo album by experimental sax player Cole Pulice. Melodies flutter in and out of focus, veiled by rising gusts of distortion' 

<a href="/colepulice/">cole pulice</a> - Land’s End Eternal
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As he prepares for the release of his debut solo album Happy Birthday, the #StrangerThings star speaks to alex rigotti about the 13 albums that formed his taste #FinnWolfhard’s Favourite Albums buff.ly/dAdaEl0

As he prepares for the release of his debut solo album Happy Birthday, the #StrangerThings star speaks to <a href="/alex_rigatoni/">alex rigotti</a> about the 13 albums that formed his taste

#FinnWolfhard’s Favourite Albums 

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#DJHaram has shared details of her debut album, Beside Myself, which takes in contributions from Moor Mother, Cairo-based DJ and producer El Kontessa, billy woods and ELUCID under their joint #ArmandHammer moniker.... You can listen to lead track ā€˜Voyeur’ here:

#DJHaram has shared details of her debut album, Beside Myself, which takes in contributions from Moor Mother, Cairo-based DJ and producer El Kontessa, billy woods and ELUCID under their joint #ArmandHammer moniker....

You can listen to lead track ā€˜Voyeur’ here:
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'Panta Rei feels like a different breed, perhaps heralding Ehua’s future trajectory as a singer-producer in the vein of Kelly Lee Owens, Ela Minus, Yaeji and others'. Ehua - Panta Rei - Hyperspecific: #ElectronicMusic for May buff.ly/8Lvt7IE

'Panta Rei feels like a different breed, perhaps heralding Ehua’s future trajectory as a singer-producer in the vein of Kelly Lee Owens, Ela Minus, Yaeji and others'. 

Ehua - Panta Rei - Hyperspecific: #ElectronicMusic for May 

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'Keith Richards is a noted Powerage fan. The album came out in 1978, just a couple months too late to have any influence on the Stones album which came out a few months later, which explains why Some Girls isn’t as good' Three Album Run: AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back

'Keith Richards is a noted Powerage fan. The album came out in 1978, just a couple months too late to have any influence on the Stones album which came out a few months later, which explains why Some Girls isn’t as good'

Three Album Run: AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell &amp; Back
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#AdrianSherwood has revealed his first new solo music since 2012 in the form of a four-track EP, titled The Grand Designer You can listen to The Grand Designerā€˜s title track here: buff.ly/P0k2j3k On-U Sound

#AdrianSherwood has revealed his first new solo music since 2012 in the form of a four-track EP, titled The Grand Designer

You can listen to The Grand Designerā€˜s title track here:

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.Ian Wade travels back three decades to the song that blew the Adidas socks off Britpop, a defiant moment in which Bernard Butler and David McAlmont transcended their pasts with what would become a queer anthem McAlmont & Butler’s ā€˜Yes’ turns 30 today! buff.ly/GbOVIJR

.<a href="/WadeyWade/">Ian Wade</a> travels back three decades to the song that blew the Adidas socks off Britpop, a defiant moment in which Bernard Butler and David McAlmont transcended their pasts with what would become a queer anthem

McAlmont &amp; Butler’s ā€˜Yes’ turns 30 today!

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'This hard-charging, bass-bombing set of squirrelly, footwork-damaged, mostly instrumental, mutoid mahraganat – aka electro-shaabi – is positively electric with the necessity of creation.' Rhit Jdi by Elkotsh is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/Jx4pfnP

'This hard-charging, bass-bombing set of squirrelly, footwork-damaged, mostly instrumental, mutoid mahraganat – aka electro-shaabi – is positively electric with the necessity of creation.' 

Rhit Jdi by Elkotsh is tQ's Album of the Week

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New evidence reveals how four countercultural figures in music, art, books & journalism were complicit in a Neo-Nazi movement fixated on murder A hard hitting investigation by political analyst Spencer Sunshine buff.ly/jGxhUog

New evidence reveals how four countercultural figures in music, art, books &amp; journalism were complicit in a Neo-Nazi movement fixated on murder 

A hard hitting investigation by political analyst Spencer Sunshine

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