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Manic Street Preachers: Soulboys In Hammersmith. Plus Photos From The Band
Manic Street Preachers last week launched new album _Postcards From A Young Man_ at the Hammersmith Working Men's Club. Al Denney explains why they're as relevant now as in his days of teenage fandom. PLUS the Manics have given us a gallery of photographs taken during the day.
Baker's Dozen
Music As Mountain Railroad: Jeb Loy Nichols’ Favourite Records
Musician and crate-digger extraordinaire Jeb Loy Nichols tells the stories behind the stops on his musical railroad, from a deep friendship with Adrian Sherwood and the heroes of Muscle Shoals that led to a love of bluegrass, country, reggae and soul
Black Sky Thinking
Welcome To Rugby Club Land: Godfrey Bloom & Other Dangerous Buffoons
After UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom was recorded making racist comments about “bongo bongo land”, Joe Kennedy argues that he is just one example of a breed of right wing "trollitician" whose buffoonery disguises a dark, potent, English misanthropy
Anniversary
Pink Floyd: From Dark Side Of The Moon To The Final Cut In Ten Years
Recently there has been much ado about Dark Side Of The Moon, but significantly less fuss made about The Final Cut. David Bennun examines how we got from one to the other in a single decade and how the current split at the heard of Pink Floyd represents the divide between crank leftism and centrist Dadism
Black Sky Thinking
Ten Things You (Possibly) Don’t Know About Kraftwerk
While doing her research for a meaty Kraftwerk retrospective in The Observer, Jude Rogers found out a fair few things that were a bit too Geek Central for the general broadsheet reader. Here follows therefore, 10 things you might not have known about Kraftwerk. Photo by Lucy Johnston
