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The Man With The Golden Shutter: How Normski Brought UK Hip Hop To Prime Time

In an exclusive extract from this new book What Do You Call It, David Kane talks to legendary DJ-photographer-broadcaster Normski about DEF II, Dance Energy and the early days of the British rap scene

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Dr Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: The Letter B

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon’d for the common LISTENER

Rum Music

Rum Music For May Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Multiple lo-fi drum machine projects and mumbling punks in this month's trip around the Rum Music universe, plus orchestras warming up, a soundtrack to a Japanese staging of Jean Genet's Prisoner of Love, and more

Punk

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for July

Noel Gardner delivers ten more frowning bales of intemperate earslaughter, including the perfectly executed anarcho punk of Subdued, the oppressively fucked sound of rising Leeds teenagers Narkotyk, and the feral, bare-brick recordings of Vancouver's Bootlicker

Art

There Will Be Mud: Contemporary Ceramics At The Hayward

A new show on London’s South Bank brings together big names like Grayson Perry and Edmund de Waal with lesser known ceramic artists, such as Lubna Chowdhary, Salvatore Arancio, and Klara Kristalova

Books

A Thumbs-Up To The People We Liked: How We Used Saint Etienne To Live

In an exclusive extract from his new book How We Used Saint Etienne To Live, Ramzy Alwakeel looks back to the early tape experiments behind 'So Tough' and Foxbase Alpha

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Radiohead: Probing Beyond The Hits

With the dust surrounding the release of The King Of Limbs beginning to settle, Wyndham Wallace, Ben Hewitt, John Freeman, Dale Berning, Will Parkhouse and Thomas A. Ward discuss some of their favourite non-single Radiohead tracks

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Food For Thought: An A To Z Guide To Melvins’ Stag

To celebrate the 25th birthday of Melvins' bonkers eighth album, JR Moores presents a users' manual to what the hell was going on 

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Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast: A Rocket To High John

John and Luke take the helm of the July Low Culture subscriber podcast to discuss some of their cultural pics for the month

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And The Heat Goes On: Talking Heads’ Remain In Light At 40

Their fourth album may have been born under punches, and may still raise questions over its authorship for the band’s exceptional rhythm section – but, writes David Bennun, it hangs together perfectly, and it never seems to age

Television

A Practically Spoiler-Free Preview Of The Revelatory Return Of Doctor Who

There's been some trepidation about the post-Tennant & Davies incarnation of Doctor Who. But, as Adrian Lobb finds when he sits down to a preview screening, we could be looking at a classic series

Books

Follow The Pleasure: An Interview With Hanif Kureishi

In an extensive #longread interview, Lisa Jenkins talks to Hanif Kureishi, author of The Buddha of Suburbia, Intimacy, and the films My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid, about Trump, Brexit, David Bowie, and his new book The Nothing

Black Sky Thinking

Underground Tehran: Techno & Experimental Electronic Music In Iran

Mollie Zhang speaks to Ash Koosha, Sote, Hadi Bastani and Siavash Amini about the electronic underground in the Iranian capital, how scenes can be nurtured in a difficult environment, brain raves, and the similarities and differences between Tehran and London

Baker's Dozen

In The Mood: The Favourite Albums Of Rush’s Geddy Lee

Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the canon

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Why Van Halen Are The Band The Velvets Could Only Dream Of Being

The Beatles are the only rock band who can surpass Van Halen's influence, argues Michael Hann as he sets out the stall for the legacy and greatness of David Lee Roth and his flowing-locked pals

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David Kane

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The Man With The Golden Shutter: How Normski Brought UK Hip Hop To Prime Time

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