A Quietus Interview
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From The Archives: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield Interviewed
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
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Perfection Is Boring: An Interview With Helena Hauff
Before she plays Bloc this weekend, the Golden Pudel resident DJ and producer has an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the approach she takes to making music, the over-accelerated exposure cycle of new material and the creeping danger of virtual life
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“No Rules Whatsoever”: An Interview With Lotic
Before he plays Corsica Studios tomorrow night alongside Jam City, Total Freedom and others, Lotic talks to Seb Wheeler about Heterocetera, his intimate new EP for Tri Angle, and laying waste to sexless mainstream club culture with the Janus collective
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Iridescent Curiosities: An Interview With Empty Taxi
Brussels-based producer Zoë McPherson's debut cassette/EP signalled an ascendant voice in electronic music, shifting through vocal-lined techno and ambient with shades of Muslimgauze, Vatican Shadow and Gazelle Twin. Now, she tells Tristan Bath how Irizajn was the result of pygmy vocal samples, ethnology tomes and technical experimentation
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“A Reaction To Mediocrity”: Spectres Interviewed
With their debut album Dying fresh on the shelves yesterday, the Bristol four-piece's Joe Hatt and Adrian Dutt talk to Joe Clay about pushing their abrasive sonics to the limit, putting on gigs in crypts and police cells with their label Howling Owl and why they're hoping their music will have the audience launching cheap booze their way
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Hall Of Mirrors: An Interview With Mumdance & Logos
For their new collaboration Proto, Jack Adams and James Parker drew on their love of 90s rave music, folding happy hardcore, gabber and jungle influences into their own forward-looking sonics. In an in-depth interview, they talk to Christian Eede about putting the album together
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“F**king Relentless”: An Interview With Yak
Julian Marszalek met Oli Burslem, frontman of frenetic London trio Yak, to talk about their debut single Hungry Heart, and ended up discussing 99p eBay organs, the "modest" Dandy Warhols and why psychedelia means more than just wearing colourful trousers in Wolverhampton
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Alchemical Allusions: The Academy Of Sun Interviewed
Brighton-based songsmith Nick Hudson's Ganymede In A State Of War, the last instalment in a five-album cycle and recorded with a cast of international collaborators, owes as much to Jhonn Balance as it does to Beyoncé and features a "triptych of hate" dedicated to David Cameron. Ben Graham meets him to investigate. Photographs courtesy of Cara Courage
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Requiem For A Lost Industry: An Interview With Jóhann Jóhannsson
With his score for The Theory Of Everything recently nominated for a BAFTA, the Icelandic composer talks to Karl Smith about his approach to creating music for the screen and reflects on The Miners' Hymns, the film tracing the decline of the north-east's mining communities, following its tour of the country last year
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The Homecoming King: An Interview With BC Camplight
On the release of his third album, How To Die In The North, BC Camplight's Brian Christinzio tells John Freeman how an encounter with a fan on Facebook resulted in a plane ticket to Manchester and saved him from a life of "self-sabotage"
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Sludge Maelstrom: An Interview With Prizehog
Following the release of last year's Re-Unvent The Whool album, the metal trio of face-melters-cum-Simpsons aficionados talk to Toby Cook about the record, how relocating Portland has liberated their sound and why Saved By The Bell's Mr. Belding was an unlikely kindred spirit
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Interiority Complex: Exploring Manchester’s Hinterlands With Lonelady
Wandering star Julie Campbell takes John Doran for a walk around the canal towpaths, vacant lots, Victorian mills and red light districts of Greater Manchester in order to explain the genesis of her new album, Hinterland
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Practising Heaviness: Brothers Of The Sonic Cloth Interviewed
Tad Doyle, veteran of the 90s Seattle scene with his former band TAD, releases his first album with his powerfully-monikered new doom trio later this month. Before that, he tells Harry Sword about exploring the sludgier end of the spectrum and drawing a line under the past
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