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The September issue is here. Featuring David Byrne, Skullcrusher, Upchuck, Joanne Robertson, Parade, and more.
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  • PARADE's strange sonic world explores the unsteady relationship between the real and imaginary

  • Listen to a playlist for transitional times, selected by Ava Rasti

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  • Decoding the art-school ambient of Telepathic Fish

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Max Richter – From SLEEP

There can’t be many people whose output piques the interest of both Gramophone and Crack…

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Green Man Festival 2015

Glanusk Estate, Wales 20 August
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Five Years of Art Is Hard

Art Is Hard Records are celebrating five years of overwhelming success as an independent label

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Slayer:
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In 1986, four young men from LA decided to make the fastest, most brutal record of all time

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Efterklang: LEAVES
The Colour of Falling

Atomkælderen, Copenhagen 8 August
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Thomas Hirschhorn‘s between-world

Celebrated Swiss artist Thomas Hirschhorn has transformed the main exhibition space of the South London Gallery into a ruin, making engagement unavoidable

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Turning Points:
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We reached out to Baker to hear his side of Source Direct’s remarkable story, from wild child to settling unfinished business in 2015

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Tamaryn – Cranekiss

2012’s sophomore Tender New Sings saw heavily-tipped New Zealand shoegaze artist Tamaryn live up to…

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Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There

It’s not easy to separate a band from their legacy at the best of times….

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