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Rock's Backpages
A Classic Kate Bush Interview: Exploring The Sensual World
As Kate Bush prepares to release a new LP based on her classic The Sensual World, we dig into the Rock's Backpages archive for a piece with Len Brown's 7 October 1989 NME interview looking at the background to the record, and her own track-by-track guide to the songs within.
Rock's Backpages
A Classic Kate Bush Interview: Exploring The Sensual World
As Kate Bush prepares to release a new LP based on her classic The Sensual World, we dig into the Rock's Backpages archive for a piece with Len Brown's 7 October 1989 NME interview looking at the background to the record, and her own track-by-track guide to the songs within.
In Conversation
In Conversation: Tony Benn & Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers
One of our favourite politicians is about to publish another book. One of our favourite rock stars is about to release another album. We thought we'd get them together. Overseen by (one of our favourite writers) Simon Price.
In Conversation
In Conversation: Tony Benn & Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers
One of our favourite politicians is about to publish another book. One of our favourite rock stars is about to release another album. We thought we'd get them together. Overseen by (one of our favourite writers) Simon Price.
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Echo Decks: Stitching Together The Kaleidoscopic Tapestry Of Screamadelica
Two themes are routinely described as transformative for Primal Scream’s celebrated 1991 recording: acid house and Andrew Weatherall. But, as Ben Gilbert outlines, other factors led to an album that was both era-defining and defined by the era in which it was made
A Quietus Interview
Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London
As the polls close in the contest to become Labour's candidate for London Mayor, we publish an interview with Ken Livingstone on music, politics, the day Thatcher dies, and who would be better at running London: Boris or Boris?
Books
I Am Reality: Butthole Surfers In Coffee Table Book Shocker
A lavish coffee table book about the Butthole Surfers may seem like a strange idea, but, finds Richard Fontenoy, Aaron Tanner's What Does Regret Mean succeeds in painting a vivid and persisting picture of what was at one point probably the most outrageous band the world had seen
