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March 20, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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RIP Roy Ayers. Thanks for giving us such joyous and righteous tunes. Here are some of them
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Roy Ayers
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March 6, 2025 at 8:54 AM
RIP Roy Ayers. Thanks for giving us such joyous and righteous tunes. Here are some of them
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Celebrating a life. 💜 Thank god for people who make music.
February 24, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Celebrating a life. 💜 Thank god for people who make music.
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If you're ever bored archive.org is a free internet library with billions of hours of stuff between movie books music etc.
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
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March 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If you're ever bored archive.org is a free internet library with billions of hours of stuff between movie books music etc.
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Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world? | The panel
Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world? | The panel
We asked a group of experts on politics, trade, literature, psychology, work and more: what has been the most surprising or shocking consequence of Covid-19 in your field?
www.theguardian.com
March 1, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Five years on from the pandemic, how has Covid changed our world? | The panel
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"This was at the height of the ghetto house sound: Deliberately simple repetitions of bawdy lyrics, pounding kicks, and nagging one-note riffs—generally pressed on the worst quality vinyl known to humanity, just to emphasize the rawness."
Traxman on the History of Chicago Dance Music:
Traxman on the History of Chicago Dance Music:
Traxman on the History of Chicago Dance Music
The dance legend had a front-row seat to the evolution of the city’s crucial sound.
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March 1, 2025 at 4:00 AM
"This was at the height of the ghetto house sound: Deliberately simple repetitions of bawdy lyrics, pounding kicks, and nagging one-note riffs—generally pressed on the worst quality vinyl known to humanity, just to emphasize the rawness."
Traxman on the History of Chicago Dance Music:
Traxman on the History of Chicago Dance Music:
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'Maxinquaye was an album of its time largely because it made its time what it was. For better or for worse. Out of its time, it belongs to a category beyond that of mere genre.'
#Tricky’s #Maxinquaye turns 30 today!
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#Tricky’s #Maxinquaye turns 30 today!
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February 20, 2025 at 6:14 PM
'Maxinquaye was an album of its time largely because it made its time what it was. For better or for worse. Out of its time, it belongs to a category beyond that of mere genre.'
#Tricky’s #Maxinquaye turns 30 today!
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#Tricky’s #Maxinquaye turns 30 today!
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Happy 40th birthday to Never Understand by The Jesus and Mary Chain, released on this day in 1985 (H/T to @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social)
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The Jesus And Mary Chain - Never Understand (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by UPROXX Indie Mixtape
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February 18, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy 40th birthday to Never Understand by The Jesus and Mary Chain, released on this day in 1985 (H/T to @whatafuckingrecord.bsky.social)
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'His legacy is undeniable: he's given us not just records and DJ sets, not just personal memories, but a whole way of being, a whole approach to this culture that we should never, ever forget.'
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RIP Andrew Weatherall: A sonic revolutionary and free spirit
Andrew Weatherall is a dance music legend who was uncompromising until the end
mixmag.net
February 17, 2025 at 12:59 PM
'His legacy is undeniable: he's given us not just records and DJ sets, not just personal memories, but a whole way of being, a whole approach to this culture that we should never, ever forget.'
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Terror Danjah Gremlinz (The Instrumentals) Planet Mu 29/9/08 3LP/CD
YouTube video by Planet Mu
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February 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my wonder of the world
Why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my wonder of the world
Emerging from the heat shimmer, these two enormous statues in Luxor appear completely otherwordly – like giants in a wheat field
I was 22 and after finishing a degree in Arabic had moved to Cairo to try to learn how to actually speak the language. I was…
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Why Egypt’s Colossi of Memnon are my wonder of the world
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Indie Basement: Best Albums of 2024 www.brooklynvegan.com/indie-baseme...
Indie Basement: Best Albums of 2024
This week in Indie Basement: All the best records of 2024, with a focus on classic indie / alternative, college rock, and more.
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December 27, 2024 at 2:46 PM
Indie Basement: Best Albums of 2024 www.brooklynvegan.com/indie-baseme...
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The best albums and EPs of the year 2024 💯
The best albums and EPs of the year 2024
Mixmag's guide to the best albums and EPs of 2024 so far
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December 24, 2024 at 4:32 PM
The best albums and EPs of the year 2024 💯
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Everybody seems to be having an off-day when they play against Liverpool
Everybody seems to be having an off-day when they play against Liverpool
Liverpool keep doing Liverpool things. The Premier League is now theirs to lose, and for a manager in his first season in England, that is a remarkable achievement
* Sign up to Soccer with Jonathan Wilson here
Eventually, there comes a point at…
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December 23, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Everybody seems to be having an off-day when they play against Liverpool
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Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2024
Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2024
Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2024. A list of the top albums of the year from Beats Per Minute. See who made the list.
www.albumoftheyear.org
December 18, 2024 at 3:59 PM
Beats Per Minute's Top 50 Albums of 2024
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2024, according to the big ears of Dave Sumner at Bandcamp
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The Best Jazz Albums of 2024
Our guide to the year’s best jazz LPs.
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December 18, 2024 at 3:26 PM
The Best Jazz Albums of 2024, according to the big ears of Dave Sumner at Bandcamp
daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024...
daily.bandcamp.com/best-of-2024...
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2024 Rewind: Contributors' Charts
The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full
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The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full
www.thewire.co.uk/issues/chart...
2024 Rewind: Contributors’ Charts - The Wire
The Wire ’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full
www.thewire.co.uk
December 12, 2024 at 12:16 PM
2024 Rewind: Contributors' Charts
The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full
www.thewire.co.uk/issues/chart...
The Wire’s Releases of the Year chart for 2024 was compiled from the individual votes of the magazine’s staff and contributors – here are those votes in full
www.thewire.co.uk/issues/chart...
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The Top 50 Albums of 2024
Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors.
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Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors.
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The Wire ’s Releases of the Year 2024 playlist - The Wire
Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’ s team of staff and contributors. You can read more about the albums featured in our chart, as well as ...
www.thewire.co.uk
December 10, 2024 at 4:06 PM
The Top 50 Albums of 2024
Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors.
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
Listen to a selection of tracks from our Top 50 Releases of the Year, as voted for by The Wire’s team of staff and contributors.
www.thewire.co.uk/audio/tracks...
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Who said Britain is in decline. thetimes.com/life-style/s...
December 4, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Who said Britain is in decline. thetimes.com/life-style/s...
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At No 1 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024 @eeih.bsky.social - Norther
'The band continue to draw from their unique methodology of playing guitars with mallets and sticks, painting sonic palettes at the intersection of minimalism and ambient music'
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'The band continue to draw from their unique methodology of playing guitars with mallets and sticks, painting sonic palettes at the intersection of minimalism and ambient music'
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@normanrecords.bsky.social
December 2, 2024 at 8:30 PM
At No 1 in tQ's Albums of the Year 2024 @eeih.bsky.social - Norther
'The band continue to draw from their unique methodology of playing guitars with mallets and sticks, painting sonic palettes at the intersection of minimalism and ambient music'
https://buff.ly/4fUS3XG
@normanrecords.bsky.social
'The band continue to draw from their unique methodology of playing guitars with mallets and sticks, painting sonic palettes at the intersection of minimalism and ambient music'
https://buff.ly/4fUS3XG
@normanrecords.bsky.social
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IT'S BEST LIST SEASON B*&CHES! NPR Music's albums list has the best blurbs, the most variety, the most expansive energy. CHECK IT OUT www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g...
The 50 Best Albums Of 2024
You can't always know that it's a great year for new music while it's happening, but there was a sense from the very start of 2024 that we were in for a ride.
www.npr.org
December 2, 2024 at 6:27 PM
IT'S BEST LIST SEASON B*&CHES! NPR Music's albums list has the best blurbs, the most variety, the most expansive energy. CHECK IT OUT www.npr.org/2024/12/02/g...
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FEATURE: 2024's Best Albums (so far)
Here are our Top 100 Albums of the Year.
www.normanrecords.com/promos/1192
Here are our Top 100 Albums of the Year.
www.normanrecords.com/promos/1192
December 2, 2024 at 10:17 AM
FEATURE: 2024's Best Albums (so far)
Here are our Top 100 Albums of the Year.
www.normanrecords.com/promos/1192
Here are our Top 100 Albums of the Year.
www.normanrecords.com/promos/1192
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Perfectly expressed, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social.
November 9, 2024 at 11:33 PM
Perfectly expressed, @clintsmithiii.bsky.social.
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‘“We had records playing constantly, and young musicians performing live jazz on weekends. I kept this up for seven years. Why? For one simple reason: It enabled me to listen to jazz from morning to night.”’ Haruki Murakami faroutmagazine.co.uk/peter-cat-ha...
Peter Cat: Haruki Murakami's jazz bar in Tokyo
Before finding fame as a celebrated author, Haruki Murakami opened a jazz bar in Tokyo called Peter Cat.
faroutmagazine.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 3:00 AM
‘“We had records playing constantly, and young musicians performing live jazz on weekends. I kept this up for seven years. Why? For one simple reason: It enabled me to listen to jazz from morning to night.”’ Haruki Murakami faroutmagazine.co.uk/peter-cat-ha...