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Subtitled 'Another Mississippi Sunday Morning', this record of prisoners' songs is folk music like you've never heard it before
In his Baker's Dozen, the Circle frontman talks about converting people to the Dead; why Pori might have the highest concentration of Cardiacs fans in Europe, and what he learned from Faust's Hans-Joachim Irmler
Kez Whelan kicks off another year in metal, rounding up a host of scorching new records to see you through the winter chill
As Lias Saoudi-fronted fruity techno troupe Decius prepare to release second album Vol. II (Splendour & Obedience), they speak to Luke Turner about dirt on the dancefloor and why their explicitly horny music is a safe space to unleash things that ought not be repressed
Tech whoppers the world over are obsessed with eternal life. But, argues Professor John Tregoning of Imperial College, scientific research increasingly suggests that the music we love can have a huge boost to our immune system and health
In our fiftieth antidote to the algorithm, David McKenna takes us back half a century to Naples, where the influence of a nautical culture and American military radio created a music scene as fertile and chaotic as the city itself
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Visit Subscriber AreaIn our fiftieth antidote to the algorithm, David McKenna takes us back half a century to Naples, where the influence of a nautical culture and American military radio created a music scene as fertile and chaotic as the city itself
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As The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death turns 60, Will Snelling explores how the record's combination of bare-bones intimacy and haunting atmosphere, post modern edge and inherent tension loom large over myriad artists today
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Explore The PortalWith its focus on the 1970s career of Leonard Rossiter and its mordant metaphysics of the moist, Sophie-Sleigh Johnson's Code: Damp might just be the most original book yet to emerge from Repeater publishing, finds Tim Burrows
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