New Weird Britain
New Weird Britain in Review for August, by Noel Gardner
Noel Gardner returns with another guide to best of New Weird Britain, including unplugged industrial recorded live at a greasy spoon in Byker, to a locked-in free improv scorcher from South London
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The People Need to be Empowered: An Interview with TYGAPAW
Ahead of a set at this year's Semibreve, TYGAPAW tells Finn Cliff-Hodges about their musical journey from Kingston dancehall to the electronic underground of queer New York, and proving the industry doubters wrong
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Songs Across the Line of Control: How Balti Music Survives in Ladakh
In Ladakh’s Balti-speaking villages, songs once carried across mountains by memory and radio are now surviving through weddings, smartphones and a younger generation trying to preserve a culture divided by borders. Sajad Hameed and Rehan Qayoom Mir speak to those keeping them alive
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The Build Up: Flora Yin-Wong’s Favourite Records
As the London experimentalist reveals a new EP and prepares for a DJ set at Semibreve, she takes Alastair Shuttleworth through some of the records which have shaped her life and career. Featuring Queens Of The Stone Age, Mya, and some ‘super trashy’ chart pop favourites.
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The Strange World Of… The Cramps
As Henry Rollins and Ian MacKaye open up The Cramps’ vaults for a sonic overhaul and a consolidation of the band’s business affairs, Julian Marszalek takes a deep dive into their back catalogue to offer 10 points of entry for novices and converts alike. Portrait by David Godlis
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The Neglected Wild: Rebel Horticulture at Markfield Park
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