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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

Lady Gaga’s ‘Judas’ & The Betrayal Of Netocracy

Emily Bick looks at the similarities between Lady Gaga's 'Judas' shtick, subversive Swedish pop group Army Of Lovers and the affiliated Alexander Bard's Netocracy to argue that the star's glamourous facade is a "prophylactic barrier to two-way engagement"

Intensive Realism: An Interview With Clay Rendering

Pavel Godfrey meets Tara and Mike Connelly at their home in Michigan to discover how the intoxicating atmospheres of their music as Clay Rendering emerge from impulsive writing sessions and the rhythms of everyday life

Unholy Matrimony: An Interview With Demdike Stare

Of all the recent discoveries The Quietus have made, Demdike Stare are one of our favourites. Here, Rory Gibb talks to Miles Whittaker to find out exactly what makes the dark practitioners tick

Love & Disappointment: Peter Gabriel Live

Keith Kahn-Harris is haunted by a childhood humiliation as he experiences the 2023 live version of Pater Gabriel. All photographs by York Tillyer