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“Screaming ‘Jesus, help me’”, Wyndham Wallace looks for God in the 1987 album which returned The Wholly Cosmic Julian Cope (© TOTP) to the charts
In this month's essay, Skye Butchard remembers their dad's collection of cassettes on which he recorded the 1981 radio version of Tolkien's classic to reflect on memory, archiving, and how familial relationships and loss are intrinsically bound up with the culture we share.
In the latest instalment of his series exploring music in Central and Eastern Europe, Jakub Knera dives into the Romanian underground
Andrew PM Hunt, of Ex-Easter Island Head, Outfit, and Land Trance, imagines far-flung worlds through glitches, whistles, and the chirruping of birds
Ahead of the reissue of Horizon Unlimited this week, Steph Phillips talks to Yeye Taiwo of legendary Nigerian Afrobeat group The Lijadu Sisters about revolutionising Nigerian pop music and how she is ready to go back on stage. Portrait of Kehinde & Taiwo by Jeremy Marre from the documentary Konkombe, courtesy Harcourt Films
'Thread head' Jude Rogers has spent decades in thrall to the notorious nuclear war television drama as well as recent months researching and writing a new BBC Radio documentary on it. Here she writes about being a member of an international community of fellow, often neurodiverse, obsessives who find companionship within the horror of its devastating frame
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Visit Subscriber AreaIn this month's essay, Skye Butchard remembers their dad's collection of cassettes on which he recorded the 1981 radio version of Tolkien's classic to reflect on memory, archiving, and how familial relationships and loss are intrinsically bound up with the culture we share.
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On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip hop luminary. This feature was first published on 11 September 2014
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Explore The PortalThe ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.
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