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Beauty and Sadness: Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast’s Favourite Albums

Michelle Zauner, driving force behind Japanese Breakfast, takes David Chiu through her life in 13 records, from foundational encounters with Motown, the beauty of Pacific Northwestern indie, and the inspiration she found in Mount Eerie and Joanna Newsom
Film

‘We Don’t Put Out’: Ladies And Gentlemen, The Fabulous Stains At 40

Hardly screened when first released in 1982, The Fabulous Stains found an audience among the Riot Grrrl acts a decade later. David Chiu explores this cult classic with reminisces from the cast and crew
Books

Dis-Content Farm: An Interview With Vivien Goldman

David Chiu talks to the punk professor Vivien Goldman about her new book, Revenge of the She-Punks, a globe-trotting chronicle of women in punk rock
Books

Cobain The Craftsman: Nirvana Remembered By Their Former Manager

David Chiu talks to music industry veteran Danny Goldberg about his new book, Serving The Servant, a remembrance of the Nirvana frontman
Books

Picture This: Blondie’s Chris Stein Snaps Downtown New York

The co-founder of the iconic pop group chats about his new book Point Of View to David Chiu, which features photos he took of his hometown and its denizens from nearly 50 years ago
Books

Mothers Of Invention: Evelyn McDonnell’s Women Who Rock

David Chiu speaks with Evelyn McDonnell, the editor of Women Who Rock, a new anthology of essays profiling over 100 influential women musicians in rock and roll
A Quietus Interview

Punky Reggae Party Politics: Vivien Goldman interview

Ahead of her concert at Pop Kultur in Berlin this summer, the esteemed journalist and author talks to David Chiu about her recording career during the late 1970s and early 1980s that included working with The Flying Lizards, John Lydon and Robert Wyatt
Reviews

Roxy Music

Roxy Music

The legendary group’s dizzying and arresting debut has been reissued with a slew of unreleased demos, outtakes and live material
Anniversary

How Queen Weathered The Sex Pistols & Punk With News Of The World

David Chiu looks back at one of the music inudstry's most repeated stories and ask what it tells us about how rock music coped with the arrival of punk
Anniversary

Running Out Of Steam: Andy Mackay Of Roxy Music On Siren

David Chiu talks to the Roxy horn player and looks back at the legendary group’s highly ­regarded fifth record as it turns 45

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