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Stripped To The Bone: Factory Floor Interview

Dom Butler, Gabe Gurnsey and Nik Void talk to John Doran about the intense and protracted business of making their first album

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I Used To Spend So Much Time Alone

Chastity Belt's third album - still disappointed, still stoned, still brilliant

Paul McCartney And Wings

So you think the 1970s were a fallow period for Paul McCartney? 'Apply the breaks', says Taylor Parkes with his appreciation of the mainly unheralded genius of Thumbs Aloft Macca...

Staples’ Diet: Tindersticks Interviewed

As Tindersticks release their brilliant new album The Something Rain, Jude Rogers talks to Stuart Staples and David Boulter about their present and reflect on the past

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

New York, London, Paris, Munich: Artists Talk About Pop Music

Now, Today, Tomorrow, and Always, a new exhibition at Eastbourne's Towner Art Gallery explores artists approaches to popular culture, with works by Mark Leckey, Jeremy Deller, Phil Collins, and others

Do Ya Wanna Funk? Paul Flynn On Hi-NRG

In our monthly subscriber-only essay, writer Paul Flynn describes being handed a flyer for an unusual literary event which acts as a madeleine, casting him back to the 1980s, and a sexual and sonic awakening. Detail from the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt photographed by the author