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Beloved: Pop Is Not A Dirty Word: warbling, twee, ‘authentic’ EmotiPop anti-stars are ruining my beloved trashy pop culture

submitted by Nick Feb 6th 2019 03:00 pm (www.nme.com)

In this week's edition of Pop is Not a Dirty Word, columnist Douglas Greenwood unpacks the breakout success of young singer/songwriters going against the grain of glitzy pop stardomI can’t tell you how sad it was to see my queen Rita Ora‘s long-awaited sophomore album ‘Phoenix’ chart outside of the UK Top 10. It was like watching your little sister slip and fall on her face some 10 feet from the finish line on Sports Day. How long I’d waited for the pop […]The post Pop Is Not A Dirty Word: warbling, twee, ‘authentic’ EmotiPop anti-stars are ruining my beloved trashy pop culture appeared first on NME.

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David Bowie: Scary Monsters Summed Up Everything About David Bowie

submitted by Nick Sep 11th 2020 06:00 pm (stereogum.com)

There are all kinds of well-established career tropes in pop history. There's the visionary wunderkind debut, when an artist arrives fully-formed and with a whole new sound completely figured out. There's the dreaded sophomore slump, when an already beloved and respected act fails to capture the same fire as their introduction. There’s the "di...

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Thin Lizzy: Announce Rock Legends Box Set With 74 Unreleased Tracks

submitted by Nick Aug 20th 2020 06:00 pm (stereogum.com)

It goes without saying that Thin Lizzy are a massively beloved and influential band. And now, for the 50th anniversary of the band's formation, Universal is embarking on a big reissue campaign to underline the group's legacy, the first installment of which is a giant box set. The career-spanning compilation features six discs of rarities,&#8...

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Islands: Future Islands – “Thrill”

submitted by Nick Aug 12th 2020 03:00 pm (stereogum.com)

The Far Field, the most recent album from the beloved Baltimore synth-pop outfit Future Islands, arrived back in the spring of 2017. Though the band kept busy in the years since, it was beginning to feel like we were about due for another album -- especially once they debuted a bunch of new songs onstage…

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The Roots: Malik B. Of The Dead At 47

submitted by Nick Jul 29th 2020 09:00 pm (stereogum.com)

The Philadelphia rapper Malik Abdul Basit, who recorded as Malik B., has died. Basit was one of the founding members of the Roots, the long-running and beloved hip-hop band, who confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. No cause of death has been reported yet. Basit was 47.

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Tool: Watch Members Of Tool, Mastodon, And Primus Cover Rush’s “Anthem”

submitted by Nick Jul 27th 2020 04:00 pm (stereogum.com)

Back at the height of lockdown, Jordan Olds' Two Minutes To Late Night series started putting together all-star metal bands to remotely perform covers of some pretty beloved songs. It's resulted in a whole lot of quarantine-era fun, from "Weird Al" Yankovic covers to Alexis Krauss singing Guns N' Roses or Emma Ruth Rundle singing…

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