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Things I Have Learned: Adam Richardson Of Ramesses On Jake & Dinos Chapman

When Ramesses’ bassist and singer Adam Richardson asked the enfants terrible, Jake and Dinos Chapman, if he could use their art to adorn his band’s new album _Take The Curse_, he had no idea that they’d say yes. He explains his love for their disturbing vision…

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Deeper Shadows: An Interview With Jaakko Eino Kalevi

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Interview: Beat Disconnection – James Murphy Says Goodbye To LCD

Thanks to our friends Dorian Lynskey and Mixmag Brazil for this excellent James Murphy interview, in this the first of our features on the best of 2010 at the half-way mark... Live picture by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net

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Julian Marszalek speaks to Joe Walsh about life with the world's biggest rock group, going solo and, er, boshing pills and going out raving to psy-trance

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