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INTERVIEW: Damien Dubrovnik

Following the release of their new album as Damien Dubrovnik during the summer, Loke Rahbek and Christian Stadsgaard discuss taking Posh Isolation to global audiences and what's next for their label

The People’s Pyramid: Paul Duane On KLF Film ‘Welcome To The Dark Ages’

A new documentary by Paul Duane chronicles the attempts of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, aka The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, aka The KLF, to build an enormous pyramid in Liverpool

Rockfort: Your Fresh Releases de la France for January & February

There are several trips to France’s mountainous south east in this month’s column, and a serious tobogganing incident.

Greg Dulli Talks Afghan Whigs Reunion

Band back together thanks to "perfect storm". Interview by Simon Price, photograph by Sam Holden

Land Observations

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Lead Review: Tristan Bath On Jessy Lanza’s Oh No

Tristan Bath looks into the sparsely populated world of Jessy Lanza's Oh No, finding a record that manages to be insular without narcissism, that nods to history without being consumed by it, and that's swathed in the light of pop without bowing to its darker contemporary failings

Update On Chromatics’ Dear Tommy Album

Echo Park Records boss says that Chromatics' Johnny Jewel almost died in late 2015 and then destroyed copies of the completed Dear Tommy album

Dancing & Defiance – A Soundtrack to 30 Years of Gay Culture

To mark the anniversary of the decriminalisation of homosexuality in the UK, Paul Flynn (author of Good as You: From Prejudice to Pride, 30 Years of Gay Britain) chooses 13 records that soundtracked his life, from ACR to Elton and Lil Kim to Sleaford Mods.

A Bridge Too Far-Sighted? Exhibition Recalls Collaboration Of Thomas Leer & Robert Rental

In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing legacy

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Big Hitters Of 2018

Do you like to soften your nihilism with hard-boogie geetar? Is queer tech-grind your go-to antidote for global socio-political meltdown? Do you rail against the mindless barbarism of austerity with help from mind-walloping noisepunk? Then this, dear friend, is the end-of-year list for you

Magical Unrealism: Julian House Of Focus Group Interviewed

"We’ve always thought of the music we release as being like soundtracks to fun, surreal dreams", Julian House tells Robin Turner

A Darkness In The West: Hacker Farm Interviewed

Hacker Farm repurpose old farming equipment, shortwave radios and busted electronics to transmit decrepit electronica for a country crumbling under ConDem rule. They speak to Ben Graham about self-sufficiency, the joys of circuit-bending and guerilla gigs outside cattle markets