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In the latest instalment of our collaboration with Kyiv's 20ft Radio we hear tales of taxi drivers horrified by music, “Baroque pop”, and ask what is an Independent label in Ukraine?
In this month’s essay, Stephanie Phillips reflects on the 1998 lo-fi, art pop album Julie Ruin, in which riot grrrl veteran Kathleen Hanna reaffirms her position in feminist art, while creating the building blocks for a dance punk future
In his latest survey of the French music scene, David McKenna takes stock of a tumultuous few months in French politics, picks some recent cultural highlights and reviews culture-straddling music from Marseille as well as new folk, occult rock and an adventurous gamelan ensemble
On the release of their crushing, darkly psychedelic new album, London quintet Michael give Alastair Shuttleworth a lesson in pottery – and explain why making ceramics is a lot like making music
Ahead of a run of US and European shows, Anastasia Coope speaks to Tristan Gatward about how a lifetime in New York and the domestic sphere shaped her dreamy yet deliberate debut album Darning Woman
On the release of new documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands, Claire Sawers speaks to Sunset Gun's Lousie Rutkowski and The McKinleys' Jeanette Gallacher to explore how sisterhood – in both a biological and symbolic sense – was both crucial to their creativity, and a cause for their dismissal by the wider music industry
In his latest survey of the French music scene, David McKenna takes stock of a tumultuous few months in French politics, picks some recent cultural highlights and reviews culture-straddling music from Marseille as well as new folk, occult rock and an adventurous gamelan ensemble
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Visit Subscriber AreaIn this month’s essay, Stephanie Phillips reflects on the 1998 lo-fi, art pop album Julie Ruin, in which riot grrrl veteran Kathleen Hanna reaffirms her position in feminist art, while creating the building blocks for a dance punk future
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50 years ago, John Cale found himself at Heartbreak Hotel, producing sweet and unhinged music from its rooms. Reassessing Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, Darran Anderson explores the musician’s remarkable year-long burst of creativity for Island Records, half a century on
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