A Quietus Interview
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A Quietus Interview
Writing Yourself Into Existence: Tunde Adebimpe And Doseone Discuss Nevermen
The TV On The Radio singer and Anticon rapper tell Kiran Acharya about recording Nevermen, their project with Faith No More's Mike Patton, the role of the frontman and Boards Of Canada's love of stuffed animals
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Children Of Skem: An Interview With The Magnetic North
John Freeman travels to Skelmersdale with The Magnetic North and a small dog, to find out why the new town - and UK centre of the Transcendental Meditation movement - inspired their beautiful new album, Prospect Of Skelmersdale
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Those Comedians That You Have Now: Stewart Lee Interviewed
Stewart Lee is back with another series of Comedy Vehicle. He tells Simon Price his thoughts on Lenny Bruce, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, swimming through piss, Brexit and the pitfalls of being constantly misunderstood
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What A Heart Can Contain: An Interview With Amber Arcades
The latest signing to Heavenly's roster tells Patrick Clarke how a desire to have full creative control, a band of bluegrass-busking punks and a Dutch fairytale all played into the creation of her debut album, Fading Lines
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There Is A Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Therapy? Revisit Infernal Love
It cost the band their drummer, the support of the UK press and their major-label deal... yet twenty years after the peak of Britpop, Infernal Love looks like a lost classic of mid-90s rock, says Kiran Acharya
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Father Figures: An Interview With Field Music
John Freeman heads up to Sunderland to eat falafel and meet with the Brewis brothers to find out why the sinewy pop of Field Music’s new album Commontime was inspired by fatherhood, Hall & Oates and hatred for a certain brand of 4x4 car
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Driff-Raff: Happy Mondays, Bummed & Driffield
Soldiers, tequila and asti-spumanti slammers, ecstasy, guns, LSD, brandy and waitresses. The good, good, good, good, good, good, double-good recording of Bummed by the Happy Mondays as dimly remembered by Shaun Ryder, Bez and others and told to Daniel Dylan Wray
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Reverse Engineering: Danny Hyde On Coil, Backwards & NIN
Two decades after Coil finally finished tinkering with tracks, Backwards has finally been release. Russell Cuzner talks to Danny Hyde, the band’s engineer, co-producer, co-writer and programmer about this 'lost' album and the Nine Inch Nails’ material, released last year as Recoiled. Contains NSFW video imagery
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The Preservation Of A Nation: Visiting The Tanzania Heritage Project
Robbie Judkins visits Tanzania to witness first hand the attempt to save a quarter of a century of musical history from oblivion. Listen to an exclusive mix of tracks newly digitized by the Tanzania Heritage Project
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To Lose The Spark Along The Way: U2’s The Unforgettable Fire
Forty years on from its release – and with the band’s popularity in question more than ever – Wyndham Wallace returns to The Unforgettable Fire, U2’s incendiary denial of expectations and their first encounter with producers Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois. (This feature was originally published in 2014)
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Who’s Better, Who’s Best: The Christmas Special Discussed
In anticipation of the Dr Who Christmas Special, our resident expert Joe Stannard looks back on chief writer Russell T Davies' contribution to the Whovian legacy: discussing queer politics, sentimentality and, of course, David Tennant's replacement...
Black Sky Thinking
Landfill Futures: Is The EDM Bubble About To Burst?
Hubris in the 1980s video game industry ended with millions of E.T. games buried in the desert. With the latest wave of corporate tie-ins and a Deadmau5/Space Invaders hook-up, asks Scott Wilson, is the apparently booming US EDM industry heading for a similarly spectacular fall?
