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Ghost Of Our Fathers: Beyond The Miners’ Strike – Beth Steel Interviewed

Jessie Thompson speaks to playwright Beth Steel about moving beyond the collapse of the welfare state, representations of masculinity and moving beyond the usual themes of the Miners' Strike in her latest work, Wonderland, showing now at Hampstead Theatre. Pictures by Manuel Harlan

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Blood Bank EP

Portishead v Portishead Charity Football Match

Geoff Barrow, Massive Attack and Kasabian strap on their boots this Sunday for match in aid of local children's hospice

Against The Monoculture: Counting Down The Best Hip Hop Of 2013

Gary Suarez sums up his year in hip hop, and is joined by Neil Kulkarni and Kyle Ellison to compile a top 40 of albums and mixtapes

Shields Against The World: Mat Osman’s Baker’s Dozen

From growing up on The Carpenters to reconnecting with music in his "wilderness years" Suede bassist turned novelist Mat Osman takes Luke Turner through his Baker's Dozen of favourite recordings

Bill Cunningham New York Preview

Portrait of the beloved veteran photographer gets a theatrical release this week. Eftihia Stefanidi strikes a pose

Alchemy Happens: Lou Rhodes’s Favourite Albums

Penning her own Baker's Dozen of albums that shaped her career as both a member of Lamb and a solo artist, the singer picks 13 records that represent her "soul-music", following the release of theyesandeye

LIVE REPORT: Audiobooks at The Social

Audiobooks - London duo Evangeline Ling and David Wrench - played their third-ever gig last week at The Social. It was ace

LISTEN: Pharmakon – Body Betrays Itself

New album Bestial Burden on the way in October

Gang Of Four’s Small ‘P’ Politics: 33 1/3’s ‘Entertainment!’ Reviewed

Houman Barekat considers Kevin J. H. Dettmar's contribution to 33 1/3's series of books dedicated to single albums, a study of Gang of Four's Entertainment!

The Sounds Of Planet Earth: Nick Rhodes Of Duran Duran’s Favourite Albums

As his long-standing side-project TV Mania finally releases an album, Bored With Prozac And The Internet?, Duran Duran’s Nick Rhodes reveals the 13 albums that changed his perceptions about music

Resistance Songs: Mdou Moctar’s Favourite Music

From Van Halen to Ali Farka Touré via Bob Marley, Tinariwen and Oumou Sangaré, Mdou Moctar takes us through the thirteen albums, tracks, artists and styles that made him who he is

From Despair To Here: Courtney Love Interviewed

Ahead of her solo tour of the UK, Petra Davis talks to Courtney Love about Hole, the importance of place in her songs and carceral feminism. Photographs courtesy of Hedi Slimane

Dark Nights Of The Soul: Chelsea Wolfe’s Baker’s Dozen

From a teenage love of Fleetwood Mac and Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet soundtrack, to real life encounters with Sunn O))) and Smashing Pumpkins, Chelsea Wolfe talks to Greg Hyde about the 13 records that most impacted her life

LISTEN: New PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey returns with the first taste of her forthcoming album; listen below

Home Of Metal Plans Series Of Exhibitions

A new series of exhibitions will celebrate the history of heavy metal this summer in Birmingham