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To see himself through lockdown, James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers has been compiling tailor-made crossword puzzles for his family and friends. He tells Patrick Clarke about the therapeutic effects and extreme cultural wormholes they can inspire. Plus, solve an exclusive '80s indie crossword compiled by JDB himself!
The Manic Street Preachers thought they might never make another album again, then along came Resistance Is Futile. Patrick Clarke meets Nicky Wire to discuss a record that's either the start of a great new era or the end of it all
Sod the first few EPs, we say a band's real hidden gems are buried at the end, among the ill-advised career moves and last grasps at fading relevance. Here, tQ writers fight the corner for their favourite unloved and underrated records from the tail-end of their favourite artists' discography.
In 1996, Manic Street Preachers released Everything Must Go, the million-selling album that restarted their career after the trauma of losing Richey Edwards. Simon Price meets James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on the record's 20th anniversary to get the rationale behind the nostalgia, their memories of recording it, and the ultimate track-by-track guide to the album itself
Architecture writer, Pulp essayist and ‘guilty nostalgist’ Owen Hatherley talks to Karen Shook about retro tat, George Orwell’s dreams, Wilfred Owen’s hair, Ken Loach’s Hovis-advert socialism and that bloody poster
As senior columnists and musicians complain that younger generations are no longer both musically and politically engaged, David Stubbs argues that rock and pop have never been the defiantly countercultural revolutionary corps that many claim
In 1994, the Manics released their career-defining third album, The Holy Bible - and Ned Raggett interviewed a young James Dean Bradfield. Here we look back across two decades of burning rage and cold fury, and publish that interview in full for the first time. Photographs courtesy of Mitch Ikeda
One of our favourite politicians is about to publish another book. One of our favourite rock stars is about to release another album. We thought we'd get them together. Overseen by (one of our favourite writers) Simon Price. This article was originally published in 2011. We're republishing it now on March 14th 2014 to pay tribute to the memory of a great man. Tony Benn RIP
Virtually unknown in Britain, Herbert Grönemeyer is a huge star in his native Germany, having sold 18 million albums. Now his sights are set on the country he called home for over a decade. Wyndham Wallace meets him at Berlin’s Hansa Studios…
You lucky, lucky people. In, what is certainly the most in depth interview the band have given in recent years, Manic Street Preachers discuss with their biographer Simon Price the brief but explosive period that they were signed to the Heavenly label.
Ahead of a show this Saturday at London's Southbank Centre, Catherine Anne Davies takes us through the 13 albums that have defined her life and work as The Anchoress, from childhood memories soundtracked by The Carpenters and lifechanging encounters with the Manics and PJ Harvey as a teen, to newfound infatuations with SZA and The 1975,
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