Music Weekly podcast: the 1961 British Hit Parade comes back from the grave

In the week when Tupac became a hologram, we're joined by the Guardian's hip-hop expert, Alex Macpherson. Who else, by the way, would you like to see resurrected in hologram form?

For once, this week, we can use the term "hit parade" without irony.
The British Hit Parade box sets, released by Future Noise Music's Fantastic Voyage imprint, has just got its hands on the charts of 1961. This latest release has a CD for each month of the year: that's 325 tracks in total. The man behind them, Lorne Murdoch, talks to Michael Hann.

Singles Club features new tracks from Brianna Perry, Hot Chip and Major Lazor.

A few days ago at the Barfly in Camden, we had the third instalment of our New Band of the Day Live sessions. Paul Lester, our new band detective, spoke to Mr Hudson and Rosie Oddie – otherwise known as BigKids – plus, we've got a live track from their set.

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