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All this and Ian McShane too: Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm at 40

Compilation of the Week: When The 2000s Clashed – Machine Music For A New Millennium

Northern Gothic: Jennifer Walton Interviewed

Cain Is Able: Ethel Cain live in London

The 20th Century Dies: David Bowie, Scott Walker and the 1990s

Boxset of the Week: David Bowie’s I Can’t Give Everything Away [2002-2016]

Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

Three Album Run: 21st Century Pop Has Never Bettered 4, Beyoncé & Lemonade

Moderate Chaos: Jerskin Fendrix Interviewed

Thriller in England: Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout at 40

“Being Different isn’t Something to Take Lightly”: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed

Reissue Of The Week: Pete Shelley’s Homosapien

Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’

The Strange World of Andy Bell: Erasure & Beyond

Nuclear Family Folk: MPTL Microplastics Interviewed

Reissue of the Week: Berserker by Gary Numan

Reissue of the Week: Henry Badowski’s Life Is A Grand

Do You Know What a Love Letter is? Mike Scott of The Waterboys Interviewed by John Higgs

The Strange World Of… Maher Shalal Hash Baz

The Rest is Noise: M.I.A.’s Arular at 20

Broadcast’s The Noise Made By People Turns 25

Circuit des Yeux on the Poop Jokes of Scott Walker

Breaking the Spell: Aya Interviewed

Compilation of the Week: Goodbye Horses – The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus

Perc Life: Rattle Interviewed

Let it Rot: Snapped Ankles Interviewed

The Story of ‘Too Much Too Young’: How The Specials got Their First Number One Single

Transcendental Cheap Magic: Wham!’s ‘Last Christmas’ At 40

Low Culture Podcast: Grace Jones’ Private Life – The Compass Point Sessions

There’s a Crack in Everything: SOPHIE’s Last Album Reviewed

Reissue Of The Week: Julian Cope’s Saint Julian

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