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CHEW LIPS - DO YOU CHEW

What first drew me to Chew Lips apart from their brilliant name was the girl's fab hair, and then I noticed that their new single is FREE (and there ain't nuthin illegal about it honey). Do You Chew is serving me a slice of chic R&B realness which I really enjoy.

SHONEN KNIFE - POP TUNE

In pant wettingly exciting news, Japanese mega group Shonen Knife have a new album out on the 2nd of July called Pop Tune, and are releasing a single of the same name. AAAAAAAH! It involves a huge amount of vigorous hair whipping, rocking, and small birds.

Stay+ Top Ten

Electronic massive Mancunian duo Stay+ (formerly Christian AIDS) have compiled a top ten for us. Featuring The Mahotella Queens, Blue Hawaii and Erykah Badu this playlist makes for an interesting and fucking good listen. Their latest EP dropped back in April and you can hear the lead track Guardian below too.

LISA MAFFIA - DON'T STOP THE MUSIC

Oh my God Lisa Maffia is back! I AM FROTHING AT THE MOUTH! Here's the video for her new single Don't Stop The Music, featuring Romeo of course, which comes out on Maffia Recordz on the 17th of June (I mean...).

Genuflex interview

Imagine Roy Orbison were to soundtrack your ascent into heaven, backed by a slo-mo Jesus and Mary Chain. Well, this is roughly the sonic ball park that Genuflex - a musical project “born out of monastic solitude of the creative process,” by Finn Jones - inhabits.

WILEY & MS. D - HEATWAVE

This afternoon at Beat HQ the topic of conversation was summer jamz (or rather the lack of them in this weather) - songs to dutty wine to repeatedly all summer until you break your back or die of sun stroke. I think Wiley & Ms. D have come up with mine, as I'm practically begging for a Heatwave right now. Or an electric heater, a picture of a palm tree cut out from a magazine, and a thermos of Sainsbury's mojito mix (ewww). This gem is produced by the genius Rymez.