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Film

Long Live The New Flesh: Videodrome At 40

David Cronenberg's masterpiece speaks to our fragmented reality more than ever 40 years later, finds Cici Peng
A Quietus Interview

All Making Sense: Chris Frantz Interviewed

Chris Frantz talks to Ian Gilchrist about life and work in New York and Nassau with his ground-breaking bands Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club
Books

Picture This: Blondie’s Chris Stein Snaps Downtown New York

The co-founder of the iconic pop group chats about his new book Point Of View to David Chiu, which features photos he took of his hometown and its denizens from nearly 50 years ago
A Quietus Interview

A Shark In Jet’s Clothing: Reclaiming Blondie’s Radical Roots

As Blondie prepare to release their 11th album Pollinator, Ben Graham talks to Debbie Harry and Chris Stein about Warhol, William Burroughs, the need for a focussed opposition to Trump and why Debbie wishes she'd been even more outrageous back in the day
Black Sky Thinking

Why The Problems With Philip Anschutz Go Beyond Coachella

Philip Anschutz, an ultra-conservative multi-billionaire, is making a fortune on counterculture via the tours and festivals he promotes. The profits indirectly benefit some grim causes - but what can we do against it, asks Joost Heijthuijsen
A Quietus Interview

Once More Unto The Bleach: Debbie Harry Interviewed

In a feature that originally appeared in The Stool Pigeon, John Doran talks to Debbie Harry about the history of Blondie, heroin, reggae and New York City. Debbie Harry photographed by Rebecca Miller
Rock's Backpages

Rock’s Backpages: Blondie In Conversation With William S. Burroughs

This month's feature from Rock's Backpages sees Victor Bockris' getting Blondie and William S. Burroughs around the dinner table for a chat about Concord, UFOs and why the English are the worst people in the world
Things I Have Learned

Magick and Me: Blondie’s Gary “Valentine” Lachman on the Occult

Former Blondie bassist and world expert on the occult Gary Lachman talks to David Moats about participating in rituals, Mick Jagger's flirtations with magick, the Freemasons, and why there's more to the occult than being a drug fiend like Aleister Crowley

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 8

Baker's Dozen

Evidently Chicken Supreme: John Cooper Clarke’s Favourite Songs

Performance poet, style icon and broadcaster John Cooper Clarke tells Alex Burrows about his most-loved songs of all time and growing up during the birth of rock & roll. Portrait by Paul Wolfgang Webster.

Baker's Dozen

Wot No Jazz Funk Greats?! Cosey Fanni Tutti’s Favourite Records

As Cosey Fanni Tutti releases one of the albums of the year thus far, she sits down with Luke Turner to discuss 13 records that shaped her, from the soundtrack to pre-COUM hippy days in Hull to the present day
Baker's Dozen

On Her Radio: Pauline Black’s 13 Favourite Albums

The Selecter leader and one of 2 Tone's most formidable figures takes Lois Wilson from Jimmy Cliff to Björk in this list of the LPs that shaped her
Baker's Dozen

Call The Police! – Terry Bickers’ Favourite Albums

One of 80s indie's defining guitarists talks us through his 13 albums – and risks the ire of purists everywhere by insisting that sometimes compilations are best
Baker's Dozen

Lay Of Her Land: Brix Smith Start’s Favourite Albums

As she prepares to release a debut album with her band of former Fall troopers, Brix Smith Start takes Julian Marszalek through some of the records that have shaped her life
Baker's Dozen

Again, Melancholy: Sarah Cracknell’s Favourite Albums

Off the back of releasing her second solo LP, Red Kite, the singer-songwriter and Saint Etienne member diligently jogged her memory, picked her 13 top records and made annotations. She talks Gary Kaill through her notes
Baker's Dozen

Page 33 1/3: Sam Fox’s 13 Favourite Albums

As 80s pop heroine Sam Fox prepares to reissue her first four albums via Cherry Red, we sit down to discuss her favourite 13 LPs
Baker's Dozen

Erasure’s Andy Bell Selects 13 Favourite Records

As Erasure gear up for the Mute Short Circuit Festival, Andy Bell picks us his 13 favourite albums

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