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Home Away From Home: Green Man 2023

One night of torrential rain can't dampen Julian Marszalek's spirits as he has a hoot at Green Man 2023, taking in sets by the likes of Devo, Jockstrap, Spiritualized, Bob Vylan, Billy Nomates, Nuha Ruby Ra, Lankum and his festival highlight Mandy, Indiana

Books

Feedback Loops: How The Who Turned Pop Into Self-Destructive Art

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New album by Philadelphia post-rock duo keeps things tight, amps up the tension

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Chris Roberts is inspired out of his clothes and on to the dancefloor by David Bowie's glorious return

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Techno Logic/Hidden Out!/The People’s Mixtape/PopUp Shop

The drummer-producer’s four-EP project blends live performance and post-production tricknology into a new kind of superstrong musical compound

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Archives Of Back Pain: Nicky Wire Interviewed

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Anniversary

What’s Wrong With Being Sexy? Species turns 30

After hearing the recent, sad news about Michael Madsen, our grind house geezer, Mat Colegate, turned his attention to Species (1995) only to find that the past is a foreign country where they do things differently...

Things I Have Learned

Crystal Fighters On The Culture & Music Of The Basque Country

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News

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Art

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At the launch of the British Pop Archive at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Lottie Brazier asks what it means to exhibit Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics next to Shakespeare and the Gutenberg Bible

Black Sky Thinking

Imagine There’s no Box Sets: John Lennon, Angela Davis & the Gutting of 60s Counterculture

As Universal release an expensive box set celebrating John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "political activism", Samuel Cox argues that it cheapens the legacy of more impactful, radical figures

Reviews

Shabaka
Of The Earth

The storied British-Barbadian multi-instrumentalist maps new musical territory on his first self-produced and -performed LP

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: Orbital 2 (The Brown Album Expanded)

'The Brown Album' pays testament to the thrilling, sometimes contradictory power of rave as a culture, just months before it splintered, says Joe Muggs

Metal

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

There is more to life than down tuned drug death, says Kez Whelan in the latest of his metal review columns

Anniversary

The Lonely Street: John Cale’s Island Trilogy, 50 Years On

50 years ago, John Cale found himself at Heartbreak Hotel, producing sweet and unhinged music from its rooms. Reassessing Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, Darran Anderson explores the musician’s remarkable year-long burst of creativity for Island Records, half a century on

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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for September Reviewed by Kez Whelan

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For July Reviewed By Kez Whelan

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Moments In The Sun: Nite Jewel’s Favourite Albums

Rediscovering Mystery: Neko Case’s Baker’s Dozen

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Pin Ups: A David Bowie Baker’s Dozen Compilation

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