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Flow: Kendrick Lamar, Kraftwerk & More

Finland's Flow Festival adds rapper to mightily impressive bill already boasting Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, The Knife, Karenn and more

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BACK: Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor releases a statement revealing that he will be resurrecting the band for a tour this year

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The Stool Pigeon Announce Wake

Celebration of the life and death of the recently-departed magazine - funeral marches by Savages and Teeth Of The Sea

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WATCH: Double Dagger Doc Trailer

Graphicdesigncore punks' film and album set for release on Record Store Day

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The November Five Announce UK Dates

Download Here We Come from last year's album If You Are Satisfied You Are Dead

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Todd Rundgren For The Idler’s Albums Club

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Marc Riley On Interviewing Lou Reed

All roads in music journalism lead to one place: a fraught conversation with a moody Lou Reed. Marc Riley remembers his two encounters with Chuckles

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Radio-Activity V: In Praise Of Mary Anne Hobbs

Jude Rogers tunes in to the new weekend breakfast show from Mary Anne Hobbs, and finds a wonderful antidote to the blokey shouting of weekday mornings

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LIVE REPORT: Savages

Luke Turner just can't enough of Savages, can he? A live review of last night's brilliant gig at the Electric Ballroom. Photos by Valerio Berdini

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6 Music Cult Star: Fat White Family Win!

Gnarly new group win Quietus' 6 Music Award!

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LISTEN: Stream Ed Harcourt’s New LP

Harcourt gives us a track-by-track introduction to his new album, Back Into The Woods, ahead of its release next Monday; tour dates below

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WATCH: The Bad Seeds Live

Recording from LA! Seedy-looking men in suits porn!

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Crab-Walkin’ Callisthenics: James Yorkston’s Favourite YouTubes

In anticipation of his set at Field Day, Scottish folk man and Fence collective member has given us a rundown of his top YouTube videos, going from Scott Walker to Sonic Youth by way of Nimrod Workman and Dexys' on-stage fitness routine

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The Locust For ATP!

Noisy insects added to I'll Be Your Mirror

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LISTEN: Pete Swanson Quietus Mix

Former Yellow Swans man and practitioner of rhythmic noise extraordinaire, whose latest EP Punk Authority is released next week, puts us together a mix of "mutations and modernisations" of electronic music - listen below

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LIVE REPORT: Sound City Players

Dave Grohl's Sound City Players supergroup comes to London for a night of ROCK by MEN and their MAN friends of ROCK. It's a bit meh, says Marc Burrows

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WATCH: Conquering Animal Sound

Calling all maritime fans! Boats go kaleidoscopic in CAS's video for The Future Does Not Require

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Brixton Record Fair: This Saturday

Get down to the Canterbury Arms this Saturday for some ace indie labels, second hand records and fanzines

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Wire: Drill – Line-Up Announced!

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Slayer’s Dave Lombardo Replaced For Tour

Drummer posts statement on Facebook saying that he was told he was "being replaced" after his efforts to remedy the band's imbalanced tour income were quashed by his bandmates and management

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LISTEN: Emeli Sandé & Kendrick Lamar Collab

Lamar adds a couple of verses to Brit winner Sandé's 'Next To Me'

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Beacons: East India Youth, Savages & More

Solange, John Talabot and Fucked Up also joining the bill for the Skipton festival in August

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Factory Floor & Simon Fisher Turner At ICA

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LISTEN: ACE NOISE BLAWAN COVER

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LISTEN: Disappears – Kone (Edit)

Closer from upcoming EP, self-released by Chicago band in April

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Notown Show: Luke Abbott And Dan Tombs

Abbott and Tombs to collaborate at label showcase in April, set to be joined by Dam Mantle, Wesley Matsell and others

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INTERVIEW: Clinic

Ade Blackburn fills us in on how Free Reign II, Daniel Lopatin's original mixes of their last album, came about

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VOTE: Quietus’ Cult Star Award On 6 Music

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WATCH: New Depeche Mode Heaven Video

In-studio film of band performing track from new album

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BACK: The Pastels

Scottish anorak pop pioneer announces new LP Slow Summits

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INTERVIEW: Yo La Tengo

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Flow: Kendrick Lamar, Kraftwerk & More

WATCH: New Iggy And The Stooges LP

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The Stool Pigeon Announce Wake

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The November Five Announce UK Dates

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