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L.A. Girl: The Life Of Sylvie Simmons In Ten Songs

Joel McIver talks to one of the all time great music journalists about her incisive interviews with the likes of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash, not to mention her own music

Father Figures: An Interview With Field Music

John Freeman heads up to Sunderland to eat falafel and meet with the Brewis brothers to find out why the sinewy pop of Field Music’s new album Commontime was inspired by fatherhood, Hall & Oates and hatred for a certain brand of 4x4 car

Wouldn’t It Be Nice: Fran Healy Of Travis Interviewed

With Where You Stand, their seventh album – and first for five years – due out this summer, frontman Fran Healy joins Wyndham Wallace to buy dinner, quote Seamus Heaney and discuss why, despite so many people loving them, they provoke such fiercely negative reactions…

Behold! January’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

New year, new releases – with offerings from the usual publishing suspects and beyond – it’s January’s round-up of the best new comics on the market from Pete Redrup & co.

Words To The Blind: Savages And Bo Ningen In Conversation

Before they reanimate their Dadaist simultaneous poetry-inspired project at London's Oval Space tonight, Savages' Jehnny Beth & Bo Ningen's Taigen Kawabe tell Suzie McCracken about its distant origins in Britain's highest inn and why youthful rebellion lies at its heart

Say Something! The Grand Guignol Spectacle Of The Birthday Party

In an exclusive extract from his new book, *Darker With The Dawn — Nick Cave’s Songs Of Love And Death*, Adam Steiner tracks the early days of the bad seed of Australian rock

Box Fresh: A 2017 General Election Special

We forced our TV critic in residence John Tatlock to live-tweet last night's General Election, in this special edition of Box Fresh he reports back from the most extraordinary of nights in.

Revelling In Failure: Bruce Springsteen’s Shut The Fuck Up Tour

25 years ago The Boss played Brixton Academy as part of his least successful tour since his first but, says, Liam Inscoe-Jones, while he may have been underperforming catastrophically in financial terms, this was also a time of creative rebirth

Why Be Here Now Is The Best Oasis Album, By Angus Batey

Angus Batey was the reviews editor on Vox when Be Here Now was released; here he lifts the lid on the sense of panic that Oasis' third album caused in the world of music journalism. But in his love for this album is he mad for it, or just mad?

No Cuddly Toy: Nelson Mandela Remembered

David Stubbs looks at the life of Nelson Mandela, and argues that he should remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the twentieth century

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For November By Daryl Worthington

Bombastic autodidactic musical theatre, contorted spoken word and text-to-speech intimacies, there’s a world of strange narratives burbling from the tape scene this month, writes Daryl Worthington

One Who Will Dance On The Floor: Michael Jackson’s Moonwalk

Michael Jackson first danced the Moonwalk 35-years-ago this weekend. Kit Caless hangs out with some contemporary MJ impersonators to explore the most recognisable move in pop history

Things I Have Learned: Pete Hamilton-Giles Of Pombagira On Voodoo

Pete Hamilton-Giles of husband-wife doom band Pombagira explains his interest in the Haitian religion of voodoo. Toby Cook takes notes

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Metal Machine Music: A Persher Baker’s Dozen

Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan