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Daft Punk’s Get Lucky Gets Funky

Daft Punk’s return has generated acres of coverage, reviews ranging from rave to merely fawning, and even saw several thousand people flock to a rural town in Australia for the launch party for the new album, where the French duo

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Tune Of The Day: Ghostpoet – MSI MUSMID

If you’ve ever read this blog before, you’ll know that I have a lot of time for Ghostpoet, and for Gilles Peterson. So whilst I was rather disappointed to hear that Ghostpoet has left Peterson’s Brownswood record label, I was dead

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Tune Of The Day: David Bowie – Sound And Vision

I love cover versions. I love advertising. I love music in advertising. But sometimes even a great creative strategy and a shit load of cash can’t beat the brilliance of an original. What it was, what it is. Watch our newest commercial featuring the

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Tune Of The Day: Manic Street Preachers – Australia

I can’t believe I haven’t done this already.

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Tune Of The Day: Faith No More – Easy (Commodores Cover)

Because today’s Sunday. Because it was a totally left-field cover for Faith No More, probably the biggest alternative rock band around when they released it (the Red Hot Chili Peppers of their day, even though the Chilis were around at

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Tune Of The Day: Creep – Matthijs Vlot (feat. Lance Armstrong)

Apparently Lance Armstrong thinks the criticism around him is petty bullshit. Because it’s not like he ruined people’s lives. Creep. More cut-up genius here.

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Tune Of The Day: Big Star – Thirteen

I first heard of Big Star when every music journalist in the UK was using them as the barometer to describe the direction that Teenage Fanclub took with Bandwagonesque (which beat Nirvana’s Nevermind & Primal Scream’s Screamadelica in many end of year best-of lists). At

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Tune Of The Day: Marc Mac Presents The Visioneers – Paul’s Guitar Story

Marc Mac has been close to the beating heart of contemporary British for over two decades now. He was genre defining in the early 90s dance/hardcore movement, as part of A Homeboy, A Hippie & A Funki Dredd and redefined drum & bass

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Tune Of The Day: U2 – Angel Of Harlem

I’ve said before that U2 probably top the list of bands it’s cool to hate, but when the sun is shining, you’re having breakfast in a lovely cafe in Melbourne, and Angel Of Harlem, with its wonderful Stax-style horns comes on

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Tune Of The Day: The Cars – Drive

It couldn’t be anything other than Drive by The Cars really, could it? Who’s gonna tell you when It’s too late Who’s gonna tell you things Aren’t so great You can’t go on Thinking nothing’s wrong Who’s gonna drive you home tonight

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Everything on this site is the opinion of me, Ciarán Norris, and no-one else, including my employers and anyone else I know. I guess that it's probably obvious, but thought I should probably make it explicit. Anyway, enjoy!


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