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How Pet Shop Boys Sold City Glamour to Queer Suburban Kids
John Grindrod discovered his sexuality in the streets of Croydon, always looking up the tracks to London, and argues that no other artist articulate this tension between city, suburbia and LGBT+ lives quite so beautifully as did Messrs Tennant and Lowe. This BST comes with a Pet Shop Boys Suburbs vs City playlist exclusive to our Subscriber Plus supporters.
Books
More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
From working with Brian Eno to playing with The Contortions and The Bloods, Adele Bertei had a front-row seat to New York's infamous No Wave scene. She talks to Elizabeth Wiet about noise, melody, and why the fertile ecosystem of Downtown NYC couldn't come about today
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Reissue of the Week: Darkthrone’s The Fist in the Face of God
Though it's almost impossible to separate 90s Norwegian black metal from the controversies surrounding its progenitors, says Dan Franklin, a new box set offers an opportunity to reappraise Darkthrone’s superb body of work on its own terms
A Quietus Interview
Mr Smith Goes to Dalston: John Smith on The Girl Chewing Gum at 50
As his experimental film marks its fiftieth birthday with a screening in the Dalston street where it was shot, John Smith speaks to David Moats about his life's work exploring the unreliable perspective of the camera's lens
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Fear Music: Tzusing Interviewed
Following the release of his second album, '绿帽 Green Hat', through PAN earlier this year, and ahead of an appearance at this month's Dekmantel festival in Amsterdam, Tzusing talks to Christian Eede about anxiety, shifting his focus as a DJ and why he named his latest record to "piss off" his dad
