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Reissue of the Week
Fire Of Love: A Jeffrey Lee Pierce Retrospective
With the release of Axels And Sockets, the third instalment of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, next week, Helen Donlon looks back over the troubled but brilliant career of the Gun Club founder. Photographs courtesy of Edward Colver
The Quietus International
Tape Adapter: April’s Hip-Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez
It's Gary Suarez's birthday, but we love him so much that we're going to refrain from adapting 50 Cent lyrics for the standfirst of his monthly mixtape round up - this edition featuring DonChristian, Fat Trel, Jimmy Johnson and more
A Quietus Interview
Rollin’ Down The Lonely Highway: DJ Rashad Interviewed
As the dizzying syncopations of Chicago footwork have spread across the globe over the last couple of years, DJ Rashad has become one of its primary ambassadors. With a new EP recently released through Hyperdub, he speaks with Charlie Frame about sample slicing and versatility. This article was originally published May 2013, republished following the sad passing of DJ Rashad in April 2014
Live Reviews
Battle Lines Of Meaning: These New Puritans’ Field Of Reeds Expanded
These New Puritans bring their Magic Resonator Piano and a host of supporting musicians to The Barbican for Field Of Reeds Expanded. Tim Burrows examines their quest to find "the elegiac and the sublime in the horrors and scars of southeast England ". Photo by Andy Wilshire
Anniversary
A British Disaster: Blur’s Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s
Taylor Parkes marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blur's Parklife by exploring the album in the context of the huge changes wrought on British life in the mid to late 90s by Britpop, Blair and the death of Princess Diana. Chips photo by David Moats
