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A Repertoire Of Mistakes: The Strange World Of… Nurse With Wound
For almost forty years Steven Stapleton and friends have been sculpting dramatic dream worlds for our exploration and delectation. On the eve of headlining this weekend’s Tusk Festival in Newcastle, UK, we take a quick ride through the stellar Stapleton system to skim the surface of ten of Nurse With World’s key releases
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Coil Interview & Extract From England’s Hidden Reverse
The American writer Derek de Koff got in touch with us recently to offer us this rarely seen or read Coil interview (with John Balance and Peter Christopherson) from 2001. And we've also got a long extract from David Keenan's excellent England's Hidden Reverse on the narcotic and artistic influences on Love's Secret Doman. Thanks to Luke Cartledge & Mark Pilkington
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A Double-Headed Secret: An Interview With Cyclobe
Cyclobe, the ex-Coil duo of Stephen Thrower and Ossian Brown, have spent over a decade honing a beguiling blend of electro-acoustics and folk instrumentation. Ahead of their show at this year's Meltdown festival, they speak about current projects, the occult and their friendship with Coil
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Between Hard Rock & An Art Space: An Interview With Andrew Liles
Over the course of the two decades he's been operating, Andrew Liles' music has been a volatile, shapeshifting thing, both solo and in his work with Nurse With Wound and Current 93. Russell Cuzner speaks to him about his career so far and new album Schmetaling Monster Of Rock
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Organs Of Ecstasy: Ben Chasny’s Favourite Albums
Questing experimental guitar hero Ben Chasny, aka Six Organs Of Admittance, tells Ben Graham about 13 records that influenced his playing and shaped his worldview, from psychedelic Japanese noise rock to American Primitive acoustic fingerpicking
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Creating A Richer Present: An Interview With Metamono
Crystal Palace-based trio Metamono craft electronic music with their bare hands, armed with electrical tape, soldering irons, buckets of elbow grease and other such sundries. David Stubbs spoke to them about the importance of setting yourself limitations in an age of supposed digital 'freedom'
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The Afterlife Of Sounds: An Interview With Stephen Cornford
Repurposing discarded Walkmans, TVs and other scrap heap finds, Stephen Cornford's work erases the boundaries between music and sculpture. He tells Robert Barry why he's using it as a means to question our consumerist habits
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Winning The Fame Game With No Regrets: Beth Ditto Interviewed
As she prepares to release her new EP with Simian Mobile Disco, Luke Turner sits down with Beth Ditto and finds that, a million record sales down the line from that song, Gossip's singer is still an unreformed Arkansas punk. Just with a better mattress
