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London's multi-talented, serial collaborator (George Lewis, Apartment House, Moor Mother, David Toop, Jason Yarde) finds physical, bodily meaning deep within the words of Edward Kamau Brathwaite, Aimé Césaire, Una Marson and N. H. Pritchard
Iron Maiden's larger than life frontman talks to author John Higgs about magical practice, the hallucinatory mandrake root, how to survive a rough childhood and why William Blake is an artist we should look to for inspiration. All photographs by John McMurtrie
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Explore The PortalThe story of Faust is one of the oddest in modern music, taking in terrorism, nakedness, cement mixers, prison and no small amount of groundbreaking music. Here, in an extract from a new oral history of krautrock, all of the major players remember the band's short, tumultuous and incredibly creative time at Virgin...
Jane Savidge was the co-founder and head of public relations company Savage & Best who looked after Pulp during their late 90s pomp. In an exclusive extract from her new book for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, she picks apart the tricky sexual politics of the group’s notorious cover art for *This is Hardcore*
In an exclusive extract from her new book *Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990*, writer and radio host Brooke Wentz shares an interview from the WKCR-FM archives with pioneering Downtown musicians Arthur Russell and Peter Gordon talking ballet, rap music and ‘democratic music’