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News: Alex James makes his directorial debut

Seemingly bored of life on the farm, Blur‘s Alex James has turned to filmmaking with a new short film. Shot while the band were in LA for Coachella earlier this year, A Slice of Life sees James on writing, directing and music duties for a film made to help …

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Album Review – Sulk: Graceless

Right now, everyone is back to obsessing over the 90s, nearly as much as they did at the time itself. Bands from the era such as Blur, The Stone Roses and Pulp are dusting off their Fred Perrys/baggy trousers/blazers and getting ready to hit the stage once more. The …

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Interview: Kidnap Kid

Ahead of a US tour alongside an esteemed cast of contemporaries including Disclosure, Rudimental, Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs and AlunaGeorge, we caught up with promising, young beat-maker Kidnap Kid – aka Matt Relton – for a brief insight into the producer’s formative years, his plans going forward

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Open’er Festival announces new acts

With an eclectic mix of live music, installation art and a fashion show, Open’er Festival have just announced the addition of Tame Impala (with their first performance in Poland), Animal Collective, Disclosure and the homegrown talent Maria Peszek to play at the festival on the north Polish coast in early …

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News: Fred Perry x Dover Street Market

If there are two things that have helped keep Fred Perry at the forefront of our fashion minds for decades now, they’d have to be the brand’s versatility and its consistently hip celebrity associations. Well, in honour of the company’s 60th anniversary, both are being put to the test as …

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Festival Report – Way Out West: Friday

We’re not quite sure how it happened but we think we ended up at a rave on top of a hill on Thursday night and well our head, legs and pride are still hurting a little bit as Friday’s mid afternoon park line-up begins to beckon. If anyone could coax …

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Get LCD’s Shut Up & Play the Hits before anyone else

Are you an LCD Soundsytem fan? Can’t wait to see Shut Up and Play the Hits? Want to get your dirty mits on it before anyone else?

Shut Up and Play the Hits isn’t just a concert recording, it is an intimate portrait of the band’s frontman and founder James …

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Preview: Converse Represent gigs

The fashion x music love affair continues; this time in the form Converse Represents – a series of incredible gigs taking place at the infamous 100 Club in London. There are 9 gigs taking place over 12 days, kicking off tonight with Plan B, L Marshall, Jacob Banks, Yuna, and …

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Pop Musik #6

Ok, I’m just going to say what we’re all thinking – This week hasn’t been a great week for pop music. To put that statement into perspective for you, Katie “Jordan” Price’s cage-fighting, cross-dressing, Celebrity Big Brother-winning ex Alex Reid not only announced an impending single release, but has also …

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Introducing: Funeral Suits

Funeral Suits may not be the cheeriest band name you’ve ever heard (it’s not exactly Yeah Yeah Yeahs is it?), but they’re not quite the morose introverts their name suggests.

The four piece band from Ireland make the kind of music White Lies or Editors would make if they went …

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