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X Factor: The Lost Tapes – When Simon Cowell Met Kraftwerk

Sweat! Passion! Vibrato! David Stubbs unearths Simon Cowell's lost tapes of unsuccessful auditions from Public Enemy, Patti Smith, Kraftwerk, Mark E Smith and PJ Harvey
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Her Version Of Events: Emeli Sandé Interviewed

Emeli Sandé discusses human brains, Virginia Woolf and Cher Lloyd with John Doran
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Against Coalition Cuts, We Find Joy In Glee Club, NW1

Cripes & Jivens! on Saturday, Luke Turner wound up in the audience at a Glee musical. This was no West End schmaltzathon, mind, but the fruit of an invaluable community project of the kind currently facing the axe due to government cuts
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Why Everybody Hurts Is The Last Thing Haiti Needs

Jude Rogers takes issue with the mauling of 'Everybody Hurts' by Simon Cowell and co

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A Decade In Review: David Stubbs Asks Whatever Happened To Pop?

The Quietus kicks off a series of essays looking back at the past decade with David Stubbs' look at the evolution of what we call pop

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