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Reissue of the Week: Soft Cell’s Non Stop Ecstatic Dancing
Seedy English vignettes supercharged by the bombast of New York's superclubs – though they didn't then know it then, the world's first modern remix album found Soft Cell on a seesaw between hedonism and self-destruction, says Patrick Clarke
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Berlin-Based Online Radio Station Refuge Worldwide Launches Crowdfunder to Continue Broadcasting
"Rents are rising, costs increasing, and the political climate has become hostile towards independent spaces, grassroots culture and organisations that platform marginalised voices," a note shared by the station said
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Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums
From teenage awakenings at the hands of Björk and Stereolab via English folksong, a lockdown obsession with Dead Can Dance and a newfound love of Lili Boulanger, Patrick Wolf takes Luke Turner through the thirteen records that have defined his life
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Silver Machine: Metallic Life Review by Matmos
Like modern day musical alchemists, MC Schmidt and Drew Daniel turn lead (and tin and steel and brass and aluminium) into sonic gold, finds Daryl Worthington
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The Shark of the New: Jaws 50 Years On
When a mechanical fish brought novel horror to the big screen in 1975, little did the filmmakers realise that they were about to warp an entire generation and help usher horror into everyone's homes, says Joel McIver
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Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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Jungle Just Crushes: Two Fingas on his Novels Chronicling London’s 1990s Ravers
As his novel Bass Instinct returns to print after 30 years as part of a long-overdue reappraisal of his trilogy of books about jungle, bass and rave in 1990s London, Two Fingas speak to Rob Corsini about being one of the few to document the subculture from within
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The Sound of Young Queer Scotland: An Interview with Carrie Marshall
With the release of her new book Small Town Joy: From glam rock to hyperpop: how queer music changed the sound of Scotland, author Carrie Marshall talks to Claire Sawers about growing up in 1970s Lanark, clubbing at Edinburgh's Fire Island and the "seismic" influence of Jimmy Somerville
