This Week, In Music: Week Ending 7th August

Behold, the dawning of a new age. Or, at least, the birth of a new regular column for the fabric site. Between the staff employed here we spend a whole bunch of our time seeking out, reacting to, recommending and playing each other new music. Understandably it’s an integral part of what we do. So, in simplistic terms, we wanted to create a place for us to share the things we share internally, with you, externally. But rather than have that be screenshots of hundreds of different and badly spelled Skype IMs we decided to make it a little bit more curated...

It's Dre Day

So ... we went on our company's annual day out to the beach yesterday. In fact, there's only seven of us in the office so let's just forget about beefs this week. Dead that. It's Dre day. We should be celebrating. Stream Dr Dre's first album in 16 years, Compton, here. Normal service will resume next week.