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Los Campesinos! First Against Wall In TWAT! (The War Against Twee)
"Dad, it’s some old English cunt!" screams my six-year-old daughter Tracey Trotsky Spinoza Jone...
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Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat: Back To Fix Your Weeping Sores
Dear Aidan Last weekend I met a beautiful, intelligent, interesting and funny girl who I'm rea...
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Mr. Agreeable: A Ball Bearing In The Vas Deferens Of Life
Waking up to a breakfast of lightly grilled kippers, a medley of wholemeal cereals, a cup of bl...
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When The Single Is A Jingle: Artists Forced To Take The Ad Man's Dollar
This one time, Gruff Rhys was telling me about the time Coca Cola was trying to buy 'Hello Suns...
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Dumbfuckingstan vs. British Art School Rock - It's No Contest Says Swells
American rockers adapt to the soul-destroying nightmare of bashing out the same turgid muzak to...
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Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat's First Sex Advice Column For The Quietus
Dear Aidan, I've been with my girlfriend for five years, but recently things haven't been so g...
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The Dark Knight of the Soul? Chris Roberts on Heath Ledger's Untimely Death
Everyone’s getting quite carried away by the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Audiences are a...
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The Unusual Sensation Of Feeling Sorry For Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
Today poncing guitar types Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong revealed that they've scrapped their fetid debut album. Yet Luke Turner can still find it within himself to shed a tear. There are a few positions of opinion in which one never expects to find oneself. Voting Tory, p...
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Lydongate! Johnny's Behaviour Rotten? Swells On The 'Racist' Ruckus
Forget Morriseygate! Here's Lydongate! First came Morrisseygate where — thanks to the amazing space-age technology of the Web 2.0 — fo...
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Dylan vs. Cohen
Last Saturday morning, lying as usual in my pit listening to Radio 4, my somnambulant ears twit...
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