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Most-read September stories:

1. 1Xtra's ticket sales fall apart
2. The Wolfhounds would like their publishing back
3. Pre-Coil Zos Kia music released
4. Bros come back… why?
5. Iron Maiden dump paper tickets

These were the new releases last week:


Warpaint - Heads Up

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Billie Marten - Writing Of Blues And Yellows

Download Writing Of Blues And Yellows



Billy Bragg & Joe Henry - Shine A Light

Download Shine A Light



Heidi Talbot - Here We Go 1, 2, 3

Download Here We Go 1, 2, 3



Skylar Grey - Natural Causes

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Beach Slang - A Loud Bash Of Teenage Feelings

Download A Loud Bash...

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We've been on holiday - these were the recommendations before we went:


Slow Club - One Day All Of This Won't Matter

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The Oh Sees - A Weird Exits

Download A Weird Exits



Wild Beasts - Boy King

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Lisa Hannigan - At Swim

Download At Swim



Dinosaur Jr - Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not

Download Give A Glimpse



65daysofstatic - No Man's Sky

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The most popular search terms so far this year:

1. No rock and roll fun
2. Is kt tunstall gay
3. Noel gallagher gay
4. Das psycho rangers
5. Simon bates
6. Drybaby
7. Suede glastonbury 2015
8. James blunt naked
9. Morrisons supermarket playlist
10. Amy Winehouse bondage

These had just come out the last time we updated the side bar:


Johnny Foreigner - Mono No Aware

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Puro Instinct - Autodrama

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O'Hooley & Tidow - Shadows

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Hellions - Opera Oblivia

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The most-read July stories:

1. Lily Allen's barbecue chums
2. Louise Mensch turns the Bataclan into terrorporn
3. The entitlement of Bring Me The Horizon
4. Bookmarks: Bow Wow Wow
5. RIP: Alan Vega
6. Franz Ferdinand lose a member
7. Viv Albertine unerases the punk women
8. Pop papers: The NME has a cause
9. Bob Geldof doesn't like your trousers
10. The Rolling Stones don't like Trump either

These were out last week:


Martha - Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart

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Lou Rhodes - theyesandeye

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Faun Fables - Born Of The Sun

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Last week's interesting releases:


Jack & Amanda Palmer - You Got Me Singing

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Nonkeen - Oddments Of The Gamble

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Various - Eleven Into Fifteen

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Out a week ago now:


The Julie Ruin - Hit Reset

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Shura - Nothing's Real

Download Nothing's Real



Roisin Murphy - Take Her Up To Monto

Download Take Her Up To Monto



Avalanches - Wildflower

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The Amorettes - White Hot Heat

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Most-read things in the first half of the year:

1. Liveblog: The Brits
2. Record Shop Day brings about The Avalanche's closure
3. Half Man Half Biscuit cycle trip
4. Liveblog: Eurovision
5. James Blunt tries to say the right thing
6. David Cameron's Rita Ora briefings
7. Russia aren't happy about Eurovision
8. Radio X listeners love Oasis
9. Illness causes Prince to break a journey
10. Beyonce makes the right wingers' heads hurt


New releases:


Garbage - Strange Little Birds

Download Strange Little Birds



Various - C87



Shawn Colvin & Steve Earle - Colvin & Earle

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Last week, these releases intrigued us:


Tegan And Sara - Love You To Death

Download Love You To Death



Ladyhawke - Wild Things

Download Wild Things



The Kills - Ash And Ice

Download Ash And Ice



Amber Arcades - Fading Lines

Download Fading Lines



Dexys - Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul

Download Dexys Do



Cats Eyes - Treasure Houses

Download Treasure Houses

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The most-read May stories:

1. Eurovision: Liveblog
2. Russia don't like the Eurovision result
3. Eurovision: Tumblr speaks
4. Azeailia Banks isn't that nice
5. Why did Yacht think anyone would be interested in a sex tape?
6. NME misunderstands Eurovision half time
7. Banks tries a half apology
8. Beyonce has upset the police
9. Robbie Williams gets a dubious gig
10. Cilla Black was Dionne Warwick's Moriarty


Last week and interesting:


Kate Jackson - British Road Movies

Download British Road Movies



Marissa Nadler - Strangers

Download Strangers



Melanie De Biasio - Blackened Cities



Christy Moore - Lily

Download Lily

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We've been on holiday and not updating these on Sunday mornings for a short while - this was the most recent collection of then-new releases:


Guided By Voices - Please Be Honest

Download Please Be Honest



Wire - Nocturnal Koreans

Download Nocturnal Koreans



Sandy Denny - I've Always Kept A Unicorn

Download A Unicorn



Rufus Wainwright - Take All My Loves

Download Take All My Loves



We Are Scientists - Helter Seltzer

Download Helter Seltzer

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The most popular Prince posts of all time:

1. That time Prince played KoKo in 2007
2. That time in 2010 when he said the internet was pretty much over
3. That time he released a record as a Mail covermount
4. That time he told Sinead O'Connor to not swear
5. That time he took on the apparently huge Prince handbag counterfeiting industry
6. That time Prince closed down his ahead-of-its-time online music service
7. That time the now-defunct News Of The World stopped hacking dead children's phones long enough to try and spoil to Mail On Sunday Prince giveaway
8. That time Prince reinvented himself as Willy Wonka
9. That time he won a Webby
10. That time the Mail found a Prince giveaway was almost as good a circulation boost as a Princess' funeral

These were last week's interesting releases:


Cate LeBon - Crab Day

Download Crab Day



Sam Beam & Jessca Hoop - Love Letter For Fire

Download Love Letter For Fire



PJ Harvey - The Hope Six Demolition Project

Download Hope Six

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The releases from the Friday before last:


Future Of The Left - The Peace And Truce Of...

Download The Peace And Truce...



Teleman - Brilliant Sanity

Download Brilliant Sanity



Ben Watt - Fever Dream

Download Fever Dream



Misty Miller - The Whole Family Is Worried

Download The Whole Family Is Worried



The Associates - The Very Best Of The Associates