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Broken Sounds, Broken Times: Things Learned At Unsound 2016
This year's Unsound Festival in Krakow takes place against a background of bleak political news across the globe, making its theme of Dislocation a timely one. Luke Turner and John Doran explore this via stunning performances by Miss Red to Matmos, Senyawa to Yves Tumor and many many more. Photos by Anna Spysz & Theresa Baumgartner
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Fela Kuti And London’s “Underground Spiritual Game”
Attending London's recent Felebration — a fairly Ronal portmanteau celebrating the life and work of Fela Kuti — Lottie Brazier finds a performance rightly reverent of history even as it creates new meaning for all involved, and an event which, in our current Right-lurching climate, is both necessary and in danger of disappearing
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Dirty Songs In A Digital Age: The Live Return Of Arab Strap
Arab Strap's filthy muse was the antidote to late 90s Britpop and joyless indie rock. Now they're back two decades on Luke Turner finds that their songs of love and sex gone awry are more needed than ever. Live photo thanks to Paul Fegen
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Mutual Emotional Respect: Björk Live In London
Live in London, at a show made necessary purely by an outpouring of love, Karl Smith finds Björk delivering both a manifesto for ferocious empathy and proof that respect and mutual reciprocation is powerfully transformative. (Photographs by Santiago Felipe)
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Dionysus Vs. Apollo: Berlin Atonal 2016
At this year's edition of Berlin Atonal, Maria Perevedentseva finds a festival packed with art installations and music ranging from the DJ-friendly to all-out carnage, which – having found its footing so spectacularly in recent years - seems not quite so sure what exactly its next step should be. (Photographs by Camille Blake)
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Liberation Music: Terrie Ex & Thurston Moore Live At Incubate
The spirit of punk rock is not to be found in obscure band T-shirts, screaming distortion, authentic sounding lyrics or pedal boards, argues John Doran. The real fireworks are created by nakedness and a true philosophy of liberation
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Overcoming Fear Of A Massive Attack, Live In Paris
In Massive Attack's performance at this year's Rock en Seine festival in Paris, Jeremy Allen finds a performance that asks more questions than it answers and a timely mirror image to the uncertainty of our age. (Photographs by Christophe Crénel)
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Polish Resilience & The Power Of Jambinai At OFF Festival
In the face of a wave of high-profile cancelations, at this year's OFF Festival Julian Marszalek finds a unique spirit of resilience indicative of the Polish spirit, victory snatched from the gaping maw of defeat by eclecticism and South Korean post-rock. (Photographs by Honorata Karapuda)
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Fighting Homogenisation: Dekmantel Reviewed
As the annual Amsterdam-based festival faces increasing popularity year on year, Christian Eede considers how Dekmantel is pushing against becoming just another dance music festival, and fits in a trip to new club De School along the way. Photos courtesy of Bart Heemskerk and Desiré van den Berg
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The Bird Is The Word: Milhões De Festa Reviewed
Do you want to run an amazing cross-genre, challenging festival? No problem. All you need is giant chickens, a swimming pool and fearless programming. Mat Colegate and John Doran reap the hairy caged whirlwind and report back with their findings
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Roskilde Festival And Anti-Nationalist Sentiment In Denmark
At the monolithic Roskilde festival in Denmark, Lottie Brazier finds a far more than cursory exploration of contemporary non-Western music pointing — despite seemingly having no overt political agenda — to a rising tide of inclusivity and anti-nationalist sentiment in an increasingly conservative climate
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Hope And Repulsion: The Quietus At Field Day 2016
Braving the mud for the festival's tenth anniversary — and with performances from PJ Harvey, Holly Herndon, Skepta and Fat White Family — Luke Turner, Lottie Brazier, William Doyle, Laurie Tuffrey, Emily Mackay, Glen Mcleod, Christian Eede and Julian Marszalek get stuck in to one of the UK's most varied and exciting festival bills. (Photographs by Valerio Berdini)
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We Rule The School – Belle & Sebastian And Indie’s Troubling Cult Of Childhood
As Belle and Sebastian perform their first two albums at the Royal Albert Hall, Fergal Kinney examines indie’s long standing infatuation with all things adolescent, taking covering C86, twee, Orange Juice and the Smiths
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Take It From The Man! Anton Newcombe’s Favourite Tracks
With The Brian Jonestown Massacre's UK and Ireland tour in support of recent LP Revelation starting in Brighton on Saturday, the band's frontman shirks the album rundown request, opens up his DJ bag and gives Julian Marszalek a top 13 songs mixtape
