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Reality Is Strange: An Interview With U.S. Girls

Meg Remy talks to Suzie McCracken about depicting multiple lives coloured by grief and hurt through the cast of characters on her 4AD debut, Half Free, feeling ashamed of the States and being angry to the point of mourning

Graham Massey On 808 State’s Blueprint

Graham Massey returns to write us another fantastic piece, this time an overview of tracks from the new 808 State anthology, Blueprint with photos taken from his own archive

Dopplereffekt And More For 2017 Sónar+D Programme

Dopplereffekt will present a special live show for the Barcelona festival's technology-focused programme

Master Of Puppets: Blurt’s Ted Milton Interviewed

Ahead of a live streaming gig on Saturday (see the foot of the feature for cheap tickets),Ted Milton of art rock, jazz punk 'situationists' Blurt talks to Sean Kitching. Photographs courtesy of Rene Castelljn

The Odyssey

A Northern Soul Time Capsule 1968-2014

Richard H. Kirk Has Died, Aged 65

The news was confirmed by his label Mute

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Plastic House On Base Of Sky

Many Rivers Crossed: Jimmy Cliff Interviewed

John Doran talks to a true original and the owner of one of the sweetest voices in popular music, Mr Jimmy Cliff

The Jesus And Mary Chain Detail Live Album, ‘Sunset 666’

It was recorded at the Hollywood Palladium in 2018

A Place Outside Of Normal Life: An Interview With Keeley Forsyth

The actor and musician is soon to release new material, sounding, in the words of The Eccentronic Research Council, like it came out of "a 17th-century Lancastrian pagan folk cult". Daniel Dylan Wray talks to her before she supports tQ's John Doran on his book tour in Sheffield this Friday

Out-Of-Body Music: An Interview With Katie Gately

With a head-spinning new composition due out this month, following up on last year's startlingly brilliant Pipes, Katie Gately talks to Tristan Bath about moving into music from film sound design, utilising technology and how the voice can be a means of personal reinvention

No Music: A Baker’s Dozen with Alva Noto

From Laurie Anderson’s United States Live to Meredith Monk’s Dolmen Music, Carsten Nicolai tells Mollie Zhang about 13 records that shaped his musical backbone. Photo by Andrey Bold

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Drunk

Ouija Board, Ouija Board: Bright Eyes’ Conor Oberst Interviewed

Lewis G. Parker talks to Conor Oberst about his new album The People's Key

The Drones

I See Seaweed

LOOP: Statement, Reissue News

Robert Hampson releases full statement about Loop reformation, plus news about reissues of classic LPs