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Baker's Dozen
Stir My Teenage Soul: Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor’s Favourite LPs
Karl O'Connor guides Luke Turner through the 13 teenage hits that made him Regis, with tales of smelling like a badger on the mail train to Brum and what happens when you get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten the wrong gravel on the way
Black Sky Thinking
Song To The Siren: Pop Culture & The Warning Klaxon
Robert Barry explores the growing ubiquity of the warning siren in popular culture, all the way from When Worlds Collide to Jason Derulo's 'Don't Wanna Go Home', via hip hop, the rave explosion, sonic weaponry and the panic sonics of contemporary pop
Anniversary
A British Disaster: Blur’s Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s
Taylor Parkes marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blur's Parklife by exploring the album in the context of the huge changes wrought on British life in the mid to late 90s by Britpop, Blair and the death of Princess Diana. Chips photo by David Moats
Live Reviews
Dream Baby Dream: Unsound Festival Reviewed
Luke Turner and Rory Gibb head to Krakow for a week at Poland's Unsound Festival, the theme of which is The Dream... the likes of The Bug, Cyclobe, Zamilska, Ksiezyc, Powell and Russell Haswell send them into a heady, other place... Photos by Anna Spysz and Camille Blake
