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OK Go's 2009 music video for breakthrough hit 'Here It Goes Again' has almost 34 million views. 34 MILLION. Since then the LA indie rockers have taken every opportunity to use their music videos to join the charmingly practical with high-concept technicality, and their new cut for 'The One Moment' continues the tradition in fine style. That's a lot of exploding paint cans, burst water balloons and splintered guitars, but the results are pretty phenomenal! The video was made in...

Let me tell you about Dangers. Dangers have just released a new video. Dangers have just released a new album. Dangers are coming to London, and you should be there. The Bend In The Break, Dangers' latest, is one of the finest hardcore records of 2016 and you should very much take the opportunity to get in on the ground- (well, third at this point) floor with these guys before all the cool people start digging them. If you already dig...

It is a universal truth that a one-hit wonder will afflict all of us at some point in our lives. 'Mambo No. 5'. 'Who Let The Dogs Out'. 'Cotton Eye Joe'. These are the thumb screws, the cerebral bores, the sodden towels draped over our faces in the oily basement torture chamber of our minds. All-consuming, heroin-catchy, and the soundtrack to thousands of manic episodes and violent acts, these songs dominate our consciousness for a brief and terrible period of time. If there...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Thirty Two.  Winter is coming, so get your ears round this box-fresh new list of weird electronica, spiritual jazz, broken beat, soul and other peculiar aural curios. We’re one week off 52 editions of the Weekly Report now. Reach out on Twitter or Instagram if you’re listening and enjoying. https://open.spotify.com/user/11123730619/playlist/4RPYt3uaXUVH8wVH8e5CiU

Olivier nominated actress and west end star of Kinky Boots Amy Lennox will play the lead role ‘Elly’ in the new Bowie’s Lazarus show at King’s Cross Theatre. Can you give us any details on what to expect for David Bowie’s Lazarus theatre show? It’s loosely based on the sci-fi novel “The man who fell to Earth” by Walter Tevis- a kind of sequel. It’s difficult to describe in a nutshell (you’ll know exactly what I mean when you see...

For a reason that I can't identify though accept to be stupid, my first listen of the new Nitkowski album came part way through reading a review of a festival I organised last month. Why I chose to pit two opposing centres of concentration against each other is beyond me. More understandable however, is how the sonic information passed to me from the north-east London four-piece kicked me off my reading, the two unable to exist concurrently, the frontier of...

Why do bands insist on finding a ‘new sound’? It’s like the musical equivalent of a mid-life crisis. You’ve released a couple of records, toured more times than you can count and embarked on a brief hiatus before being compelled to reform and re-invent yourself into some refined version of your former self. Waste of time if you ask me, you’d be better off buying a Porsche. And so it was with some dismay that I trawled over a Pigeon...

Joyce Manor, turns out, is a weird place, Shining style. Today, Joyce Manor (the band, obvs) premiere the video for “Last You Heard of Me,” a track appearing on their highly anticipated fourth album Cody, released this Friday. Check the vid out below Directed by Christopher Good (who’s also worked with Okkervil River and Perfume Genius), “Last You Heard of Me” finds the California-based band performing at an ill-fated dinner party complete with roller-skating maids, fire-eaters, dancing skeletons, and a murderous house...

rec-ing /rɛk’ɪŋ/ 1. put forward (music, artist) with approval as being suitable for a particular purpose or role. "George had been rec-ing some on-point wonk pop lately" What should I listen to today? It’s the burning question faced on a daily basis by the aurally-able. Now more than ever, deciding what music to play is a Sisyphean task, and it’s easy to feel the creep of choice paralysis staring into the labyrinthine library of releases past and present. That’s where a good set...