This year’s best, and indeed most important, albums seem to reflect the terrifying complexity of the world we’re in right now.
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A bunch of songs I loved in 2016
Who am I? Just some dufus who likes music. Who are you? Just some other dufus who likes music. Let's hang out and listen to the best songs of 2016.
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Primavera Sound 2016, Barcelona: Festival Review
All the highlights and very few lowlights from our Thursday, Friday and Saturday spent at Primavera Sound 2016, Parc del Fòrum, Barcelona.
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Primavera Sound 2016: a guide to the 40 best bands & their stage-times
This year's Primavera Sound takes place on June 1-5, which means you only have a couple of weeks to get acquainted with THE best festival line-up of 2016.
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Radiohead: A Moon Shaped Pool – Album Review
During my commute, on the morning after Radiohead's new album A Moon Shaped Pool was released, I found myself eyeing up other pale, bearded men wearing headphones, and I imagined mouthing the words 'moon shaped pool' at them and receiving a knowing smile of approval.
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Surprise! Radiohead announce new album out May 8, release another video
Radiohead have spunked their entire creative load in one week. Here's the second brand new video 'Daydreaming' and their new album is out Sunday May 8th.
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Radiohead release brand new single and video ‘Burn the Witch’
Following a teasing couple of Instragram posts and the expectation that Radiohead would drag this on at least for another week or two, here's their brand new single and video, 'Burn the Witch'.
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Radiohead share some creepy Trumpton/Wicker Man hybrid shit
If you read this latest Radiohead news on a non-UK site, there's some mild confusion as to the style of the stop-motion animation used in their latest enigmatic social media post. Well it's fucking Trumpton isn't it.
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Hot-heads in hot-rods: seven of the very best Death Discs
How seven classic songs mined dangerous driving and teenage tragedy for big bucks and sick yucks.
The Death Disc, also known as a ‘splatter platter’, ‘car crash song’ or quite simply a ‘teenage tragedy song’ is a style of ballad popularised in the 50s and 60s sung from the point of view of either a dying (or dead) teenager or the dying (or dead) teenager’s sweetheart.