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Proper Job! What National Minority Status Means To The Cornish

Cornish lad Jeremy Allen looks at what the recent decision to grant the county national minority status means to its residents. Photo from Shutterstock

Raf And O

Time Machine

Hallock Hill

Kosloff Mansion

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

Chewed Corners: Mike Paradinas’ Favourite Records

The pioneering electronic musician familiarly known as μ-Ziq, Planet Mu label founder and one half of Heterotic - who have just released their second album, Weird Drift - gives Joe Clay his potted biography in 13 top records

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

Pornography As A Trojan Horse: Peter Buwalda Interviewed

Peter Buwalda speaks to Karl Smith about generational conflict, the evolution and revolution of internet pornography and the artistic aspect of hard sciences in his new novel Bonita Avenue

Fear & Loathing In Late Capitalism: An Interview With Simon Stephens

Discussing his latest work, Birdland, playwright Simon Stephens speaks to Jessie Thompson about the grotesquery of celebrity culture, taking lessons from Brecht and just turning off your fucking phone

Two Poems By: Juliet Escoria

This week's new writing comes to us for the first time from West Coast USA in the form of two poems by Juliet Escoria, author of the recently-published (and searing enough to cauterise a gaping wound) short story collection Black Cloud

Pixies

Indie Cindy

Led Bib

The People In Your Neighbourhood/The Good Egg

Denial Of The Species: Lee Buford Of The Body’s Favourite Albums

With the UK leg of their European tour drawing to a close with sets in Bristol tonight and on the Quietus' Desertfest stage tomorrow, Lee Buford of the none-bleaker American sludge duo picks out 13 all-time top records and pens us his own Baker's Dozen

Europe Is Our Playground: An Interview With Stromae

Jeremy Allen travels to the Netherlands to talk identity, language and storytelling with Stromae, the quietly uncompromising and unique musician who is currently, and deservedly, Europe's biggest popstar

Out West: Patrick Haggerty Of Lavender Country Interviewed

Country's all men's men and woeful moaning about lost dames, right? Wrong: back in the early 70s Patrick Haggerty defied C&W conventions - and those of gay culture at the time - by releasing an out and proud country album. This is his story.

11 Paranoias

Spectralbeasteries

“Shy People Telling Small Stories, Quietly”: Jeanie Finlay’s Favourite Films

Jeanie Finlay, director of Sound It Out and The Great Hip Hop Hoax picks her favourite films, and talks about the final days of fundraising on her next documentary, Orion

Acquaintance

Satellite Stream

The Junipers

Paint The Ground

First Contact: Meet The Residents 45 Years On

Sean Kitching looks back 45 years to The Residents' debut and finds a record just as beguiling now as it was on release and asks, what makes it so weird?

Doom Is A State Of Mind: An Interview With Kongh

With Swedish doom trio Kongh set to play at Desertfest this weekend, Toby Cook catches up with guitarist David Johansson to chat slowed-down-Sabbath and weed (or lack thereof)

Håkon Stene

Lush Laments For Lazy Mammal

Christopher Bissonnette

Essays In Idleness

Vox Pop: Mark Burgess Of The Chameleons Interviewed

Julian Marszalek talks to Mark Burgess of Chameleons Vox (formerly The Chameleons) about playing by his own rules

Hyper Realisation: An Interview With Ben Frost

Iceland-based electronic musician Ben Frost returns next month with his brutal, noise-scorched new album A U R O R A. Ahead of his London show this week and Sonar Barcelona in June, he speaks with Tristan Bath about the making of the new album, traveling to the DR Congo as part of Richard Mosse's The Enclave project, and composing by ear in an age of visual music

Boss Tunes: Pulp’s His ‘N’ Hers 25 Years On

Our man in Orange County Ned Raggett once more offers the American perspective; this time on the album that signposted Pulp's ascendency to the outsider pop throne

HTRK

Psychic 9–5 Club

Dirtmusic

Lion City

A Quest For Perfect Pop: The Drink Interviewed

With their third EP released this week, Dearbhla Minogue of London three-piece The Drink tells John Freeman why her band are dedicated to the art of making "mad" guitar pop

Noel’s Straight Hedge X: Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

He's back! Noel Gardner returns with an in-depth look over recent punk and hardcore releases, featuring Perfect Pussy (pictured), The Good Wife, The Offenders, Lumpy & The Dumpers, No Babies, Lotus Fucker and more

The Time For Being Nice Is Over: Seun Kuti Interviewed

Richie Troughton talks politics, legacy and Afrobeat to Seun Kuti, the man earning his reputation out of Fela's shadow, ahead of his Field Day set

An Interest In Longevity: Billy Childish Interviewed

Easter Monday is Billy Holiday! Here he talks to Phil Hebblethwaite about hipster appropriation of his image, live gigs and playing the long game

Things I Have Learned: Billy Childish On Chatham Dockyard

Easter Monday is Billy Holiday! Here the great man tells Phil Hebblethwaite about the history and legacy of the Chatham Dockyard (and why he thinks the Quietus is witless)