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With the publication of his new essay collection, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, talks to Richard King about blogs, brutalism, and the link between Adam Curtis and Mark Fisher ...
Angus Batey celebrates Fugazi's debut full-length LP - a record that still sounds urgent and vital 40 years on ...
In an exclusive extract from this new book What Do You Call It, David Kane talks to legendary DJ-photographer-broadcaster ...
Rammstein return with an unexpected nod to the Sound of Music… ...
12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev ...
The latest album from Robert Smith & co feels unstuck in time, but taken on its own terms it’s as urgent and compelling as ever, finds Ned Raggett ...
Following new album Sentir Que No Sabes and ahead of her guest curation at this year’s Le Guess Who?, Mabe Fratti takes Laura Snapes through thirteen favourite records spanning her Central American ...
The new album by Fire! Orchestra brings vocals to the fore, interspersed with electrical flurries of horns and keys, finds Euan Andrews ...
Hannah Peel speaks to poet, writer and sometime collaborator Will Burns about the 13 albums that influenced her, from Kraftwerk to Jill Scott, Radiohead, Cluster and Steve Reich. Photo by Peter Marley ...
Adam Lehrer talks to Phil Todd and Mel Ó Dubhshláine about the release of an expansive anthology charting almost 30 years' work by cult psychedelic band, Ashtray Navigations In this month’s Genre is ...
During the Covid pandemic many of us have had to start working from home. But how does the music we listen to affect our labours? And what impact can it have on creativity? Dale Berning Sawa ...
At barely twelve minutes long, the twenty-four year-old Spanish rapper's latest eight-song suite may be the shortest album we ...