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A Quietus Interview
Labour Of Love: An Interview With Kìzis
Kìzis speaks to Patrick Clarke about the myriad forms of love that informed her epic new album Tidibàbide / Turn, which runs over three and a half hours and features over 50 collaborators including Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Owen Pallett, and a Toronto cab driver
A Quietus Interview
Searching Questions: iLL BLU Interviewed
Denzil Bell asks James Grant and Darius Ellington-Forde their perspective on the use of stop and search targeting the black community, as well as the future of drill music, the funky house revival and their forthcoming debut album The BluPrint
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins is 60 on Saturday. Given how he has dedicated himself to becoming hardcore punk's most prominent renaissance man, it's become easier to forget about the music that made him. Andrew Holter chooses ten points of entry to his large and forbidding back catalogue
Anniversary
A Game Of Two Halves: Spacemen 3’s Recurring 30 Years On
Though they’d split by the time of its release, Recurring wasn’t so much a farewell from Spacemen 3 as a calling card for Pete Kember’s Spectrum and Jason Pierce’s Spiritualized. Julian Marszalek gets caught in the middle 30 years on
Album of the Week
Plague Island’s Youth Division: For The First Time By Black Country, New Road
Black Country, New Road are one of the most exciting bands in a standout London music scene, and this album is a candid portrait of where the band are at a few years into their existence, finds Cal Cashin
Anniversary
How Jack Johnson Burned A Path For Some Of The World’s Worst Artists
There was grey and gravel-flavoured BlokeMusic before him. But, argues David Bennun, the tepid indie-folk mumbler’s commercial success ensured that an awful lot more came after him – and we’re still living with the consequences 20 years on
Art
An Eye That listens: An Interview With Eddie Otchere
Photographer Eddie Otchere captured jungle and drum 'n' bass from the inside. On the eve of Velocity Press' publication of their oral history of the scene, Who Say Reload (which features Otchere's images extensively), Charlie Bird caught up with the photographer to discuss nights down the Blue Note, the hardcore continuum and why dancing is dangerous to conservativism
Books
The Trouble With Comics: Can UK Comics Step Out From The Shadows?
Without America's scale, France's cultural capital or Japan's mass readership, the UK comics industry finds itself in a curious position. Katriona Chapman looks at the state of the art in light of Hannah Berry's UK Comics Creators Research Report
