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Black Sky Thinking
For Those About To Mope: How Rock Learned To Love The Smiths & Morrissey
The battle lines were clear in the 1980s: you either loved Iron Maiden or you loved The Smiths, you couldn’t love both. So how did it come to pass that Morrissey would release a pop punk album and become one of the most dropped names in metal and heavy rock? John Doran investigates
Live Reviews
Stellar Systems: Antony Hegarty’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed
This year, the Southbank Centre invited Antony Hegarty to curate their annual Meltdown Festival. We assembled a crack team of reviewers to cover a selection of its highlights. Words: Rory Gibb, Russell Cuzner, Joseph Burnett, Chris Roberts, Lee Arizuno
A Quietus Interview
Uneasy Alliance: An Interview & Mix From El Kid
Bristol's Sam Kidel battles with his computer to create constantly evolving club tracks with a hand-played sensibility. He speaks to Rory Gibb about the "strange abstraction" of producing music on a screen, and has recorded us a mix
A Quietus Interview
‘Different Atmospheres, New Locations’: Jeff Mills Interviewed
Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills celebrates 20 years of his Axis label this autumn with a book of artwork, photos and essays about its history. While in London, he sat down with David Stubbs to envisage possible futures
Black Sky Thinking
An Olympic Cynic On Why Britain Won More Than Medals
Olympic cynic Luke Turner was largely won over by the achievements of the London Games. Here he argues that, despite all the still-extant reservations about how the Olympics are run, the true legacy ought not be Team GB's bling, but a Coalition-proof sense of our National identity
A Quietus Interview
Men As Machines: An Interview With Officers
Having collaborated with artist Start Semple, and recently worked and toured with Gary Numan, Leeds-based four piece Officers have been finding ways to bridge the physical and electronic worlds. Dom Smith caught up with the band's Jamie Baker to discuss the importance of blurring those lines
Books
Psychedelic Brilliance: The Marvelous Origin Of The Teardrop Explodes
Seldom has a band name been quite so evocative as that of Liverpool's The Teardrop Explodes. Here, band members and associates recall how that name's "psychedelic brilliance" was first unearthed from the pages of an old Marvel comic book
