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Baker's Dozen

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Baker's Dozen

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Baker's Dozen

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In-Between Days: Wind, Again by Sary Moussa

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Stephen O’Malley
But Remember What You Have Had

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Le Guess Who? Finalises 2023 Lineup

The Utrecht event will host ESG's final European performance, as well as a special collaboration between Caterina Barbieri and Space Afrika

News

Tony Visconti On New David Bowie Material

In BBC interview, producer gives a fine bill of health and promise of rockier tracks!

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Feature alongside Mouse On Mars & Gruff Rhys

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The Strange World Of… Blancmange

Garry Hensey sits down with Neil Arthur in order to provide ten points of entry into the long and varied back catalogue of Blancmange

News

30 Percent Of UK Clubs Have Shut Since The Pandemic, Report Finds

The UK has lost 365 clubs since March 2020, according to information collected by the Night Time Industries Association

Anniversary

The Oral History Of Marc And The Mambas’ Torment And Toreros

Forty years ago this week Marc Almond released the album that almost finished his career. Derided at the time as an overblown, self-obsessed indulgence, Torment and Toreros is now considered a flawed masterpiece in the lineage of Lou Reed’s Berlin, Big Star’s Third, and Nick Cave’s Your Funeral…My Trial. Here the people who made the record tell its story in their own words.

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Is This Water

Arriving at post-rock by way of post-bop, the Swiss trio make jazz standards of classics by Radiohead and Broadcast

Television

Family Strife: The Trouble With The Kennedys

As The Kennedys comes to the BBC, Terry Staunton looks at the Stateside flop and finds a "scattergun mosaic of hearsay and half-truths with all the gravitas of a mid-market soap"

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But Remember What You Have Had

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Is This Water