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“Slacker At Heart, I Guess”: Stephen Malkmus Interviewed

Leah Pritchard talks to Stephen Malkmus about new LP Mirror Traffic, The Fall, golf, softball and hanging with the horse-hunting set

Micachu And The Shapes: Lo-Fi Pop Hoover Groovers Interviewed

Clive James on Rock Music… and why it Must be Turned Down

On the eve of the reissue of his six albums from the 1970s (recorded with song-writing partner Pete Atkin) Polymath James talks us through rock – and why it needs to be turned down from 11. As told to Joel McIver

Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough On Ian Nairn’s No Two The Same

In this month's Low Culture Essay, Travis Elborough revisits No Two The Same, a documentary about London's Pimlico that reveals many of the foibles of its creator, thirsty outsider and outspoken architecture critic Ian Nairn

Early Music: Sarah Davachi’s Favourite Albums

Following the release in September of double album 'Cantus, Descant', as well as an impending live album, Sarah Davachi shares a selection of formative records from her teenage years and studies

I Don’t Belong Here: Cathi Unsworth’s Weirdo In 13 Albums

Author and journalist Cathi Unsworth talks us through the albums that inspired her new novel Weirdo. This feature will bring dark joy to the hearts of those whose clothes are black, whose lips are purple and whose witches are red

The Strange World Of… Current 93

In their 36 year history Current 93 have produced a body of work that is bewilderingly large; Aimee Armstrong is here to provide ten relatively accessible points of entry

Avert Your Eyez: The Trouble With Biopics

With Tupac biography All Eyez On Me currently in cinemas, Jeremy Allen goes to bat against the music biopic

The Poet Laureate Is Up For Renewal: Could Grime Be The Answer?

Jeffrey Boakye was going to write us a piece on why Mercury-winner J Hus ought to be the next British Poet Laureate but, halfway through, he realised that a movement, not an individual, might be deserving of the sack of sherry