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Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC for August
From Tokyo speedbastards to small town Connecticut hardcore, to a band billing themselves as a two-piece despite one of them being a dog, Noel Gardner's roundup of the best in global punk returns
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Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
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Reissue of the Week: Galaxie 500’s CBGB 12.13.88
A lean and raw live recording of Galaxie 500 captures the band just as they were on their ascent. A new mix of this previously bootleg-only performance makes a vital addition to their slender back catalogue, says W.B. Gooderham
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Willoughby Tucker, I'll Always Love You
Combining the dream pop Americana of Preacher's Daughter with the drones and experiments of Perverts, the Florida-born singer-songwriter-producer may just have come up with her most realised project to date, finds Cal Cashin
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Water From Your Eyes’ Rachel Brown on Watching TV
Long before vocalist Rachel Brown began pursuing music, they dreamed of writing for the small screen. Ahead of releasing their disorientating, technicolour new album with Water From Your Eyes, they explain this lifelong passion to Alastair Shuttleworth
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Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
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“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out
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