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Feb 25 News

1,000 artists release silent protest album against AI

Tyler Roland

A proposed edit to the UK copyright law prompted 1,000 artists to put their name on the album.

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Jul 29 Album Reviews

Blur - The Ballad of Darren

The Needle Drop

Starts much stronger than it finishes.

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Jan 11 Album Reviews

Gorillaz - Plastic Beach

The Needle Drop

Plastic Beach‘s music and concept have aged scarily well over the years.

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May 7 Album Reviews

Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots

The Needle Drop

Damon Albarn’s latest record may be slightly passionless and relentlessly dreary, but he delivers some stand-out songs throughout the tracklist here.

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Jul 5 2012

Blur- "The Puritan" & "Under the Westway"

The Needle Drop

There’s no question about it: Blur is back! While it may be a while before Damon Albarn works to release another Gorillaz album, it’s great that he’s diversifying his repertoire with a solo album, production on that Bobby Womack album, and now these new tracks that are

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Bobby Womack- "The Bravest Man in the Universe"

The Needle Drop

Back in March, we received the news that soul veteran Bobby Womack would be releasing a new LP on June 11 in the U.K. and June 12 in the U.S via XL Recordings. Titled The Bravest Man in the Universe, the album was produced by Damon Albarn of

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Mar 29 acoustic

Damon Albarn- “The Marvelous Dream”

The Needle Drop

A new song has emerged from Damon Albarn’s concept album Dr. Dee, which is about John Dee who was an advisor to Elizabeth I. The song is pretty simple just a lightly strummed acoustic guitar and eventually some claps with background humming. Albarn’s vocal delivery is pitched pretty

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McKinley Dixon - Magic, Alive!

The Needle Drop’s Recap of Governors Ball 2025

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