Month: July 2021
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Karen O & Willie Nelson – Under Pressure
I hadn’t heard this from it being released late last year, but this excellent and moving over of Queen & David Bowie’s Under Pressure by Karen ) and Willie Nelson is being released for Record Store Day. It’s the terror of knowingWhat this world is about.Watching some good friends screaming,“Let me out!” I heard about…
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Carpenters Do Disco
I had forgotten about this – after the Carpenters frankly strange yet inspired choice of covering Klaatu’s psych pop odyssey ‘Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft‘ they made their own ‘Star Wars Christmas Special’ after it was a surprise hit. Apparenetly Karen was a big disco fan, but it doesn’t get stranger than her covering Heatwave’s…
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RC 349: England’s Screaming
It’s coming home, coming home, Delta’s coming home…. As England are in the Euro final (something that was days away from when I recorded this last Saturday), I break my rule about always releasing a podcast at 9am on a weekday and release it on a Saturday as I think this needs to be out…
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How To Disappear Completely: Radiohead Covers
That there, that’s not meI go where I pleaseI walk through wallsI float down the LiffeyI’m not hereThis isn’t happening Ane Brun – How To Disappear Completely I’ve been listening to a lot of covers recently via the excellent Cover Me Songs site, mostly Fleetwood Mac (surprise!), Depeche Mode and Radiohead. Something about Radiohead lends…
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Hot Homo Summer
Michael Henry has a new series about the unlocking of queer desire this summer called ‘Hot Homo Summer’ and I am here for it! It is really weird trying to get back into the swing of things after nearly a year and a half…
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Deafheaven – Great Mass of Color
Was watching Dunproofin’s Spin set (Fridays and Saturdays at 10pm UK time) and he raided moshtalks hosted by Beez which I’d not heard before who did a great video set of metal – some requests (Gojira! Motorhead!), some his choices (Slayer is always welcome, Sepultura, classic stuff and newer stuff I’d not heard of). I…