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Aspirational Music: Hiro Kone’s Favourite Tracks

From the duduk to spiritual jazz, Hiro Kone's Nicky Mao guides Bernie Brooks through a selection of thirteen tracks that informed and inspired her latest LP, Silvercoat The Throng

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We host two of our favourites down in Brighton

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Pet Shop Boys: New LP!

Duo leave Parlophone for Kobalt label deal

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LISTEN: Pet Shop Boys – ‘Fluorescent’ Clip

Wrap your ears around another taster of what new LP Electric sounds like

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Damon Albarn’s DRC Music Collective To Release Charity Album

Kinshasa One Two features the likes of Actress and Dan The Automator, alongside local Congolese musicians, to be released on Warp in October

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Metal Vicar Rachel Mann: Why Jesus Would Have Been A Pussy Riot Fan

As Pussy Riot begin their two year prison sentence, lady of both the cloth and the rock the Rev. Rachel Mann gives a Christian critique of the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church

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Fact Or Faction: Courtney Taylor-Taylor’s One Model Nation

Aug Stone talks to the Dandy Warhols' frontman about his Kraftwerk and terrorism inspired graphic novel but asks: would the truth have made for a stranger read?

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Hannah Peel & Will Burns Announce LP

Musician and poet collaborate on first joint record

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The Hydra Announces Winter Season

London club promoters to host Ben UFO, Floating Points and more for all-night sets as well as a series of other special nights in London this autumn and winter

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Capital Gains! London: The Modern Babylon Explored

Jenny Horwell weighs the pros and cons of Julien Temple's cine-portrait of London, which is released on DVD by the British Film Institute next week

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LISTEN: New Bill Wells & Friends Album

Album made up of Wells and guests performing a number of familiar nursery rhymes; listen to it in full below

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Keep On Running: On Mark Hayes’ New Doc Skid Row Marathon

It may be London Marathon day, but the sofa-bound can still vicariously participate in Mark Hayes' new documentary about an LA running club

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WATCH: Aidan Moffat Film Trailer

New film following Aidan Moffat on tour, alongside great folk singer Sheila Stewart, will be toured by Moffat at special screenings

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Artist Run: Stepping Out With Footfall Art

A roving project by artist Hannah Luxton, Footfall Art installs the work of emerging artists in the street-facing windows of commercial buildings.

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The Bright Labyrinth: Chance And Repetition

In a selection of excerpts from his recent Strange Attractor-published book, The Bright Labyrinth, Ken Hollings discusses - via John Cage and Edgard Varèse - mass production, organisation, repetition and the (perhaps only) advantage human beings have over machines. (Illustrations by Matthew Frame)

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Wild Female Imagination: ‘Women Talking’ By Miriam Toews

In the latest novel by Miriam Toews, Stephanie Sy-Quia finds a radical re-interpretation of Mennonite doctrine wrapped in a missive of love and solidarity

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Wet Ware: 11 Fountains In Leeuwarden-Friesland, Capital Of Culture

As part of its tenure as one of this year’s European Capitals of Culture, Leeuwarden-Friesland, in the Netherlands, has commission eleven artists to build eleven Fountains

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