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Rhian E. Jones delves deep in to Viv Albertine's autobiography, finding much more than just another punk memoir, something more like a treatise on socially and culturally accepted and expected modes of sex and sexuality, of femininity and the impact, immediate and enduring, of those eponymous clothes, music and boys
Robert Barry examines how pop culture's impulse towards totality has crumbled during the past two decades, and finds traces of that decline in the fall of communism in Europe, the UK government's crushing of rave, and the rise of the internet
With the deep-freeze grime of 'Take Time' with Novelist still resounding in our ears, Mumdance meets Harry Sword to discuss his newly released mix CD with Pinch, the importance of musical context, and working with mahraganat artists in Cairo
As Bronze Teeth, L/F/D/M's Richard Smith and Factory Floor's Dominic Butler craft scorchingly abrasive, gnarled beat tracks inspired by rave sound systems and the patterns of nature. With their debut 12" released this week on Diagonal, they speak to Joe Clay about crowbarring open dance music to uncover new things inside
This year, Southbank Centre asked Mo'Wax founder James Lavelle to curate their annual Meltdown festival. As has become Quietus custom, we sent a crack team of reviewers to report back on some of the most intriguing and exciting events. Words by Julian Marszalek, Colm McAuliffe, Chad Parkhill, Jack Losh, Andy Thomas and Paul Tucker
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