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The new Jane's Addiction tour might've hit a roadblock

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Perry has had so much botox if Dave punched him in the face he wouldn't have felt it.

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The ultimate shitposter

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If you like Beatles stuff the Parlogram channel on YouTube is interesting. Especially when he went to Abbey Road.

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Compared to the drum-machine euphoria of dance music in 1989, Soul II Soul stood apart. Britain was getting sweaty in make-shift raves, with Euro producers snagging Disco samples to voice their four-to-the-floor 120 BPM party-starters. Meanwhile a loose collective of London-based DJs, dancers, singers and the occasional musician slowed it down, added doses of soulful groove and positive thinking, and changed the face of British music. The arrogance at the time of calling their debut Club Classics Vol. One has dimmed in the face of what we know now, its seismic cultural impact with songs that still ignite dancefloors today. This is New British Canon and this is the story of “Back To Life (However Do You Want Me)”.

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Tears For Fears didn't quite fit in. Not style conscious enough to be New Romantic but too Smash Hits to be the next Joy Division. Not quite a synth-pop band, more a pop band that used synthesisers. Before U2 took over, Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith were briefly the biggest band in the world, claiming two US Billboard number ones with a shuddering sonic maelstrom questioning authority and a slice of Cold War paranoia with the vibe of "The Boys of Summer". But before that they were the po-faced therapy boys, drowning their sorrow and dancing to the sound of their own childhood trauma. This is New British Canon, and this is the story of "Mad World".

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Kirsty Hawkshaw, the voice behind Opus III’s 1992 hit ‘It’s A Fine Day’, shares the making of one of UK dance music’s most beloved hits.

Hawkshaw gives DJ Mag an insight into her musical upbringing – from growing up as the daughter of famous composer Alan Hawkshaw, the man behind the iconic Countdown theme tune, to becoming a part of the travelling free party scene in the '90s with Spiral Tribe – and recalls recording her vocals for the single, an interpretation of an Edward Barton poem originally sung by Jane, in a kitchen in Sunderland.

Produced by Kevin Dodds, Ian Munro and Nigel Walton, 'It's A Fine Day' became an instant hit, and launched Kirsty into the spotlight with TV interviews, Top of the Pops performances and worldwide shows, an experience she wasn't always comfortable with.

From Orbital's 'Halcyon' to Skrillex & Boys Noize's 2023 hit 'Fine Day Anthem', Hawkshaw's vocal has been sampled countless times. 32 years later, she shares her feelings on this phenomenon, and speaks about what the track still means to her today.

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The Cure’s Robert Smith isn’t seen as the most happy-go-lucky guy. On occasion he has confounded expectations and crafted superior pop confections like “The Lovecats”, “Inbetween Days” and “Friday I’m In Love”. However for the most part, his band are associated with dark emotions, a foreboding sense of doom, drowning in melancholy. In 1987, Smith was informed by a university student doing her thesis on The Cure, that within his songs he had died 74 times. And this is the energy he brought to the Cure’s final album of the 80s. This is New British Canon, and this is the story of Disintegration.

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Oooh! I'm gonna watch that when I wake up, I didn't listen to heaps this year, but I did manage to mostly avoid the lazy sample/cheap cover phase that completely plagued late 2022 and last year.

I say I mostly avoided it, but I already know what at least one of the songs on the list is going to be. Simply because the one time I heard it, I absolutely fucking hated it. It's the butchering of country roads, take me home by machine gun fellatio and Jelly doughnuts..

That song is so fucking terrible that if it doesn't place as the worst song of the year I'll actually be a little upset and question Todds taste.

Fucking woeful song, and easily the worst thing I've heard since ABCDEFuck/F/Forget/FrigetcU.

But aside from one absolutely abysmally pathetic song, nothing much this year has been bad enough for me to hate.. or good enough for me to love, music this year mostly just existed. You start to appreciate music merely existing after you hear nails scratching chalkboards though.

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