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Pink Sky Thinking: An Interview With Nathan Fake

This summer's Steam Days album found Norfork's Nathan Fake continuing to sink deeper into his own idiosyncratic and woozy take on techno and electronica. In advance of a tour with Orbital next month, he speaks to Jim Keoghan about folk ethics and working solo
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Love & Language: An Interview With Cate Le Bon

Cate Le Bon's second album CYRK came out this year, and found the Welsh singer exploring increasingly playful territory. Jim Keoghan met up with her to discuss how it came together and the appeal of the Welsh language
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Yellow Jersey & Brown Ale: Paul Heaton Interviewed

Paul Heaton is currently celebrating his birthday by cycling 2,500 miles - 50 for each of the years he's been alive. And he's playing gigs in pubs along the route. Jim Keoghan investigates
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30 Years On: Revisiting Pavement’s Slanted And Enchanted

Jim Keoghan slips back three decades to listen to Pavement's debut and finds it, thankfully, just as messy as it used to be
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A Watershed Moment: XTC’s Andy Partridge On English Settlement

'Hail to the provinces!' says Jim Keoghan while talking to Andy Partridge of XTC, 30 years after the release of English Settlement
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A Century Of Violence: The Mekons Interviewed

Jim Keoghan talks to post punk internationalists, The Mekons. Pictures courtesy of Derrick Santini
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Twenty Years On: Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque Revisited

Jim Keoghan says forget Nirvana, the Fannies were the real heroes of 1991...
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Expecting To Land: The Last Bluetones Interview

The Bluetones are calling it a day after 18-years. Jim Keoghan talks to Mark Morriss about the highs and lows
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Revisiting Blur’s Leisure, Two Decades On

Leisure was released 20 years ago tomorrow, and Jim Keoghan argues that in its marrying the sounds of northern and southern indie of the time, Blur's debut is an underrated LP

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Geoff Davies Of Probe Plus Records Liverpool Interviewed

Celebrating Record Store Day Jim Keoghan talks to Geoff Davies about Probe and Half Man Half Biscuit
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C86 And All That: The 25th Anniversary

Jim Keoghan explains why the C86 cassette compilation has a far more important legacy in independent music than just giving rise to jangly indie-pop
Books

In Search Of Protest Singers & Dorian Lynskey’s 33 Revolutions Per Minute Reviewed

Jim Keoghan asks Billy Bragg, John Robb and Dorian Lynskey whether the protest singer is becoming prevalent once more, while John Doran reviews the latter's new tome 33 Revolutions Per Minute

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