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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

The Sun And The Moon: Yeye Taiwo Of The Lijadu Sisters Interviewed

Reissue Of The Week: The Go! Team’s Thunder, Lightning, Strike

The Coolest State: Bronski Beat’s The Age Of Consent At 40

Love Is The Transcendent Thing: Famous Interviewed

What We Do With What We Have: Björk’s Medúlla Turns 20

Compilation Of The Week – Kampire Presents: A Dancefloor In Ndola

Opera House Music: Pet Shop Boys’ Dreamworld Reviewed

How To Sell A Contradiction: Sade’s Diamond Life & Sophisti-Pop 40 Years On

Posthumous SOPHIE Album Set to be Released This September

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Gold Gold Gold Gold Fire Fire Fire Fire: Douglas McCarthy’s Favourite LPs

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Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: The Cure’s Mixes Of A Lost World

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Remember Them…

We Play For Real: Remembering Douglas McCarthy, Son of Essex

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The Perfect Beat: Arthur Baker’s Baker’s Dozen

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News

Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy has Died

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Album of the Week

Out On the Edge: Crying the Neck by Patrick Wolf

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Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

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Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for June by JR Moores

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A Quietus Interview

Everything Wide Open: An Interview with The Messthetics

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In Conversation

Peer Review: Peter Strickland Interviews Cosey Fanni Tutti… and Vice Versa

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Bakers Dozen: Joy Division & New Order’s Stephen Morris On His Top 13 Albums

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Ain’t it the Truth: Robert Lloyd of Nightingales’ Favourite Music

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