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By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music. According to the Internet, today is ‘Blue Monday’, which if you believe the tsunami of lifestyle articles flooding your timeline means that we all feel more miserable today than on any other day of the year. Admittedly, I finished this playlist before finding out about this so haven’t made any effort to counteract your inevitable feelings of emptiness with any significantly...

The cast of Friends have confirmed they will reunite for a two-hour special to be aired in the US on Sunday 21 February. The entire crew - Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer, Matt LeBlanc and Matthew Perry - are reported to be signed up to the one-off episode, which is being produced in honour of James Burrows, who directed 15 episodes of the New York-based comedy. Given the high-profile status of the cast it may prove challenging to get everyone...

Mogwai have announced the release of their new album, titled Atomic, slated for a 1st April release. The album is composed of reworked versions of the music recorded for the soundtrack to director Mark Cousin’s acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living In Dread and Promise, which first aired on BBC Four last summer. The band have premiered U-235, a new track lifted from the album. Constructed entirely of archive film, Atomic is an impressionistic kaleidoscope of the horrors of our nuclear times - protest marches,...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music.  Welcome to the Weekly Report Vol. 30. It's raining, it's miserable and David Bowie is dead. Not a great deal to recommend today, apart from this playlist of course. We start off with a great calypso song about London and finish with a prophetic track from Bowie's latest album. Happy listening… https://play.spotify.com/user/11123730619/playlist/30p3rVWgUZyLfC6Bws7ge8

Two of David Bowie’s out-of-this-world hits have topped a chart of the nation's 40 favourites from his vast repertoire. His 1969 single ‘Space Oddity’ was voted number one, with 21 per cent of the vote, closely followed by ‘Life On Mars’. The 1983 smash-hit ‘Let’s Dance’, produced by legendary disco mastermind Nile Rodgers, was third, ahead of 1972’s ‘Starman’ and his 1985 duet with Mick Jagger ‘Dancing In The Street’. A spokesman for research experts OnePoll.com, which conducted the survey...

By Ben Gelblum The death of pop legend David Bowie, aged 69 just days after releasing his 28th studio album, the haunting Backstar, has inspired tributes from pretty much everybody who woke up to the sad news today. Perhaps our favourite tribute to The Man Who Fell To Earth, then reinvented himself endlessly, is Soulwax's "Dave" - a flawless one hour mix by Belgium's eccentric Dewaele brothers of their favourite Bowie hits. Premiering in 2012, as part of the Radio Soulwax project that Soulwax aka 2manydjs hope...

By Alex Lodge (@alexlodgemusic | Insta @alexlodgemusic7) Alex Lodge is a music supervisor for film, TV and advertising at Studio 32 Music.  Welcome to the Weekly Report. This is a playlist I’ve been releasing on my blog Liquid Architecture every Monday for the last 29 weeks. It’s made up of tracks I’ve come across in my digging sessions throughout the week, along with some old favorites from my record collection. To keep it interesting, I try to include stuff that you're unlikely to...

With Adore Life, one of the most highly anticipated albums of 2016, set for release on January 22nd, Savages today release their stunning new track ‘Adore’. Marrying Jehnny Beth’s commanding vocals and evocative facial expressions with intimate closeups of the band, oscillating rhythms, and surging guitars, the affecting ballad is inspired by the American poet Minnie Bruce Pratt. To mark the release of their sophomore album, the band will embark on a 28-date 2016 tour, kicking off in the UK, before traveling to Europe and...

By Georgette Culley BRITAIN’S most notorious former dungeon has opened its halls at night - for life drawing. One of the world’s most famous landmarks The Tower of London has allowed an art group to stage their ‘historical’ drawing classes, which see real life models emulate historical characters in the old stone castle. During the first show, models posed as King Edward I and Queen Isabella – consort of Edward ll – in the draughty halls of Wakefield Tower and...