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Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For September

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An Intuitive Place: Yvette Interviewed

With the bludgeoning guitar noise of their debut album Process out this month, Suzie McCracken catches up with Brooklyn duo Yvette to discover how they've channeled present-day societal dread into music that pummels like a breezeblock

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“A Beauty I Cannot Deny” – David Sylvian Looks Back

Since attaining pop star status in the early 1980s with Japan, David Sylvian has followed a circuitous, challenging path, constantly refining his world of arty pop and ambience. Wyndham Wallace talks to him about finding and following his muse…

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Taping A Slave: Django Unchained Reviewed

David Stubbs is impressed by a career best performance from Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino's latest, Django Unchained. Contains moderate spoilers

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Rats on Rafts
Excerpts From Chapter 3 - The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths

Rotterdam's Rats On Rafts return in a new form, stil restless

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INTERVIEW: Dave Gahan

Dave Gahan has taken a break from touring the world and beyond with Depeche Mode for his second album with the Soulsavers team, Angels and Ghosts, as he talks to Ned Raggett about the new album, his songwriting process and taking time out from Depeche Mode

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Tangled Paths: An Interview With Orphx

With the second of their Sonic Groove compilations recently released and a new album on the way, the industrial techno duo have an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the oft-overlooked rhythmic noise scene and the evolution of their sound and approach to production

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Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For September

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An Intuitive Place: Yvette Interviewed

“A Beauty I Cannot Deny” – David Sylvian Looks Back

Taping A Slave: Django Unchained Reviewed

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Excerpts From Chapter 3 - The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths

INTERVIEW: Dave Gahan

Tangled Paths: An Interview With Orphx

Front 242 Plot Final Tour

Life In Hell: Sleaford Mods Interviewed By Taylor Parkes

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Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For September

Most Popular

Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums

The Strange World of… Jon Spencer

Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

O Superfan: How Rock & Pop’s Elite Screw their Loyal Supporters – and why it won’t Work

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of June 2025

Low Culture Essay: James Cooray Smith on David Lynch Sitcom, On The Air

Reissue of the Week: Coil’s Black Antlers

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

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

Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for June Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

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

In-Between Days: Wind, Again by Sary Moussa

Previously Read

An Intuitive Place: Yvette Interviewed

“A Beauty I Cannot Deny” – David Sylvian Looks Back

Taping A Slave: Django Unchained Reviewed

Rats on Rafts Excerpts From Chapter 3 - The Mind Runs A Net Of Rabbit Paths

INTERVIEW: Dave Gahan

Tangled Paths: An Interview With Orphx

Front 242 Plot Final Tour

Life In Hell: Sleaford Mods Interviewed By Taylor Parkes

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Meat, Beats, No Manifestos: An Interview With group A

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