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On Camp & Conchita: An Eurovision Victory For The LGBT Community

Richard Osbourne looks at the camp history of the Eurovision Song Contest, and argues that Conchita's victory this year represents a newly serious side, and a symbolic victory for Europe's LGBT community

Page 33 1/3: Sam Fox’s 13 Favourite Albums

As 80s pop heroine Sam Fox prepares to reissue her first four albums via Cherry Red, we sit down to discuss her favourite 13 LPs

Beyond The Iron Gates: How Nazi-Satanists Infiltrated the UK Underground

In the second in our series exploring the connections between far right politics and music, Dylan Miller investigates the satanic-fascist Order Of Nine Angles and how, via musician and artist Richard Moult and the experimental folk scene, they have connected with the UK underground. Please note - this article contains imagery that some readers might find disturbing.

The Skull Defekts

The Skull Defekts

The last and best album from Sweden’s noisy avant-rock experimenteers.

Languages Inhabited: Teju Cole’s Favourite Albums

Following the publication of his first collection of essays, Known And Strange Things, the writer and photographer pens us his own Baker's Dozen, picking "as many kinds of albums that really mattered to me as possible"

The Love Hangover: Simple Minds’ New Gold Dream Revisited

40 years on, Richard Foster revisits Simple Minds' classic New Gold Dream (81-82-83-84) and finds an album full of dreamlike shifts in time, other worlds and disorientation

Zones Of Sacrifice: Drifting Through London With Laura Oldfield Ford

With her latest exhibition Alpha/Isis/Eden open at the nearby Showroom, artist Laura Oldfield Ford takes Craft/Work for a dérive through the environs of Lisson Grove

Emotional Experimentation: Ghostpoet’s Favourite Albums

With an excellent second album under his belt, Ghostpoet picks out his own favourite LPs from his collection

Ghost Of Our Fathers: Beyond The Miners’ Strike – Beth Steel Interviewed

Jessie Thompson speaks to playwright Beth Steel about moving beyond the collapse of the welfare state, representations of masculinity and moving beyond the usual themes of the Miners' Strike in her latest work, Wonderland, showing now at Hampstead Theatre. Pictures by Manuel Harlan

The Fight Has Already Begun: The Black Cultural Activism Map

As the Stuart Hall Foundation launch their latest initiative, the Black Cultural Activism Map – a dynamic and interactive online resource mapping past and present culturally diverse arts initiatives and cultural activism in Britain – Zahra Dalilah reports on the inauguration

Such Gravity Without A Centre: Lavinia Blackwall & Laura J Martin Are Wyndow

The self-titled debut from Wyndow finds Laura J Martin and Lavinia Blackwall working out down the worry gym

Tropical Fuck Storm

A Laughing Death In Meatspace

Torrid and messy: former Drones man Gareth Liddiard gets weirder

Holly Herndon Shares AI Cover Of Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’

It was produced via her deepfake twin, Holly+

Morrissey Reveals His Favourite LPs Of All Time

For Friday 13th, Morrissey has scanned in the sleeves of his favourite 13 albums, emailed them to us, and requested that we put them online. Here are the results:

Bon Iver

Blood Bank EP

Two Poems By: Luna Miguel

In its first trip to Continental Europe, this week's new writing comes from Barcelona via two poems by Luna Miguel - from the unpublished book The Stomachs - translated into English by Kevin Cole