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#8: It’s got leather seats, it’s got a CD player
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— 4 Sep 2020 Tom 2 comments

We’ve already had a look at the scrappy, self-sufficient, grass-roots corner of indie. Of course that’s only part of the story. There’s also the parts of what used to be “indie” that were happening in, more or less, the mainstream. But that[…]

#7: Come sun come rain come hailstone pelt
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— 4 Sep 2020 Tom 1 comment

This is one of those brackets where I’ve pushed a few disparate things together. It’s a rap bracket, clearly, and rap that’s on the margins of pop (with a couple of big exceptions). But there are two distinct reasons why it’s on the margins. […]

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