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Swells Dies. Caps Lock Buttons Sigh In Relief
Our good friend and Quietus writer Swells died on Tuesday after finally losing his fight agains...
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Features
Thom Yorke: My Autobiography. By Steven Wells
An extract from: Thom Yorke: My Autobiography by Steven Wells AKA Yorkie — a Life in Pop P...
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Black Sky Thinking
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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Black Sky Thinking
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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Black Sky Thinking
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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Black Sky Thinking
Swells on Topshop playlisting The Rotted
In 1997 David Bowie flogged $55 million worth of 10-year bonds backed by his album sales. These...
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One for the Road
Swells in NYC
In which Swells, the shorn rider, casts his mind back to mid 80s NYC and dreams of Pele, Africans...
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Black Sky Thinking
Black Sky Thinkin: Tinging Outside The Box
Like 'Girlfriend' by Avril Lavinge and 'Smile' by Lily Allen and 'Pieces of Me' by Ashlee Simps...
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Black Sky Thinking
Black Sky Thinking: What We (Don't) Need is an Alternative Oldster
Kill all the baby-boomer music journalists. Line them up on the edges of mass graves (that they...
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Black Sky Thinking
Black Sky Thinking: Glastonbury - Aryan folk festival
With NME today publishing a rather desperate, exclamation-mark riddled defence of Glastonbury b...
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