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• New Music Friday: 9 releases to start your weekend (12 January 2024)

  The recorded music industry is almost entirely awake from its holiday slumber so New Music Friday is getting interesting again.

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  Jan 12
  
• 5 songs you must hear this week: 01 May 2023

  Florence goes for fish, Rancid returns, and a chip off the ol' Edge block.

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  May 1, 2023
  
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• 5 songs you must hear this week: 08 August 2022

  It's mid-summer, meaning that everything that needed to be out for the season has been released. Or has it?

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  Aug 8, 2022
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• 5 songs you must hear this week: 20 September 2021

  Well more than 700 song submissions came into my inbox over the last week, the majority of which was recorded during COVID. This gusher will continue for some time.

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  Sep 20, 2021
• 5 songs you must hear this week: 11 January 2021

  The first couple of weeks of the New Year can be painfully slow when it comes to new releases. We don't seem to have that problem this year.

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  Jan 11, 2021
• 5 songs you must hear this week: 24 February 2020

  This week: Three newcomers, a follow-up from a band of brothers, and more new Pearl Jam

  Entertainment

  Feb 24, 2020
• Alan Cross’ weekly music picks: Vampire Weekend, Beirut are here to warm winter

  This week, we welcome back a band that's been AWOL for six years, and take a look ahead to some new albums.

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  Feb 1, 2019