This week: new albums from Middle Kids and Black Grape, and EPs from Little Simz, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club and Matt Cameron. Also: traditional apologies, mostly harmless, that one theme from that one show, a clarification, old mate Dave, the Taylor-P!nk demarkation line, another triumph of Big Data, talking about pop music, having opinions about the Beatles, on the buckets, ice cream on hash browns, universal reactions, techno sucks and other very 1995 worldviews, different inspiration and/or different drugs, UK grim(e), live at Levitation, cleanliness is next to grunginess, Ghetts’ guests, nothing from Scotland can ever be bad, aggressive losses, pre-emptively avoiding Double J, official bootlegs, the Pearl Jam military-industrial complex and what’s my age again (spoilers: a lot).

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