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Rebel Alliance: Pain Olympics By Crack Cloud

With a shared history of trauma and an open-door policy at the studio, Crack Cloud's debut album is a remarkably focused affair, finds Zara Hedderman

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WATCH: New Dean Wareham Video

First play of promo for Love Is Colder Than Death from forthcoming solo mini-album

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It’s Noel’s Straight Hedge! The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

Noel Gardner's punk and hardcore reviews column returns with some thoughts on music's eternal obsession with youth and write-ups of new releases from Poison Idea, Terveet Kädet, YDI, Violent Reaction, Hard Left, Sheer Mag, Christi, The Coneheads and Foot Hair

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Most Popular

Sheer Momentum: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans’ Favourite Music

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park

Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

Uneasy on the Ear: An Interview with Lola De La Mata

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

“This is My Happening – and it Freaks Me Out!”: 10 of the All-Time Weirdest Rock’n’Roll Movies

Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums

Running Free: Tuff Times Never Last by Kokoroko

University McCartney, It’ll be OK

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

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

Previously Read

Rebel Alliance: Pain Olympics By Crack Cloud

WATCH: New Dean Wareham Video

It’s Noel’s Straight Hedge! The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

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