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Record Store Day 2025: What releases should you be looking out for?

Here are our picks for the best Record Store Day releases for 2025.

Euronews

“We set out to put our thoughts and musical ideas out there, hoping they’d be appreciated. That’s proved to be true”: Sampled by Grandmaster Flash, De La Soul and the Fugees, Cymande shaped the sound of hip-hop. Now they’re back to claim their legacy

Cymande’s influence on hip-hop culture is huge. But with new album Renascence, the spotlight returns to the funk institution, and Patrick Patterson is here to play

Guitar World

‘It wasn’t my intention to shock!’ Jean-Claude Vannier on working with Serge Gainsbourg and setting his new album in the gutter

He has influenced everyone from Beck to De La Soul to Arctic Monkeys. As the great musical ‘disruptor’ unveils his new murder-and-mandolins epic, he looks back on his most famous collaboration

The Guardian - UK

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Cymande: the most undervalued London band ever?

Cymande are the funk legends who were loved in America but ignored in the UK, and are now about to have all the world’s attention with a killer new album

Evening Standard

"It's the hip-hop version of the burning of the Library of Alexandria": Madlib launches fundraiser after losing home, gear and extensive record collection in LA wildfires

The revered hip-hop producer is asking for donations to assist with "immediate personal needs" after fires claimed his Altadena home

MusicRadar

The surprising '80s album that never leaves our hi-fi test rooms

It's a gem of a hip-hop album that should be in every music fan's collection – and it's a great test disc, too.

What Hi-Fi?

"Probably two percent of all photographers in those days were black", Normski recalls how he became the man with the golden shutter in the age of hip-hop

From its humble beginnings, Normski recorded the rise of hip-hop culture as it became a global phenomenon

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Bombay Bicycle Club: ‘People were still calling us landfill indie’

Now comfortably in their second-era stride, Noughties indie rock’s most celebrated escapees talk to Mark Beaumont about class, Keir Starmer, and getting Damon Albarn to noodle around on their new album

The Independent UK

15 best Gorillaz tracks to test your system

We’ve curated the finest tracks from the most successful virtual band ever so that you can get the best out of your hi-fi.

What Hi-Fi?

I didn’t know how to tell my mum that Mike Nichols hated my script

I had my icons and I worshipped them. And one of them dumping on me from a great height was painful – though perhaps useful, too

The Guardian - UK

De La Soul's music is available after years of disputes

The band was big during the early days of hip-hop, mostly from the 1980s through mid-'90s.

Axios

The timeless innovations of De La Soul, now (finally) available for the streaming generation

Before De La Soul, says Hank Shocklee, "'beautiful' and 'rap' weren't two words that went together."

Los Angeles Times

The 2023 Grammys are back in Los Angeles: Here's how to watch Sunday's awards show

LOS ANGELES — Music's biggest night is back in Los Angeles after the pandemic upended the last few ceremonies.

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