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Submitting to the sprawl of Glastonbury
Oskar Jeff went to Glastonbury for the first time to lose his festival pessimism in the vastness of the place
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Oskar Jeff
Pavement's Pavements is the most Pavement film Pavement could have made
Pavement!
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Stuart Stubbs
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Lana Del Rey keeps it real with a stadium show that gets a little weird
The night LDR became a hologram, cried and covered John Denver
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Stuart Stubbs
Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Tour and the art of the stadium show
A truly great pop show can go on forever, in ways that bands can never achieve
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Stuart Stubbs
Little Simz’s album of big beef
Lotus is a record of rage, but Simz knows to reframe a public and painful betrayal as a moment of recovery, by Skye Butchard
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Skye Butchard
Pulp and new album More: never rush, never change
The same spirit that prevented the band from giving up in the 1980s now gives us Pulp's first album in 24 years
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Stuart Stubbs
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Essays & Opinion

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The Drift: the best in weird and experimental music
Cal Cashin rounds up the month’s best in strange and avant-garde sounds from around the world, this time celebrating the possibilities of stringed…
My neighbour's taste in music drove me to hypnotherapy
It turns out you can hear 'Dancing Queen' too many times
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Stuart Stubbs
The Drift: the best in weird and experimental music
Cal Cashin rounds up the month’s best in strange and avant-garde sounds, including a record made with lawn mowers
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Cal Cashin
Why don't indie labels quit Spotify?
If the lowest paying, biggest streamer is so bad for independent music, is there a world where it can be boycotted by the labels?
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Stuart Stubbs
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The Drift: the best in weird and experimental music
Cal Cashin rounds up the month's best avant-garde music, from Belgian drone metal, through digital slowcore, to Plunderphonic folk
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Cal Cashin

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Katy Perry gets stuck in a ball, Beyoncé gets stuck in a flying car, Deerhoof quit Spotify, and a man sues WhatsApp with good reason
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Hardcore band If It Rains, Jenny Hval on Summer Solstice, trainers from Nardwuar and Charli XCX, and Glastonbury's Patchwork mistake
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Nick Cave turns down Morrissey, a bumper list of newly announced albums, Kim Gordon's Trump protest song, "It's a dog, ok!?" says Sabrina Carpenter
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The timeless joy of a new David Byrne song, Waxahatchee live in London, AJ Tracey releases an album via Deliveroo, I can still hear the screams of the…
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Water From Your Eyes confuse and delight, Tommy Wright III and DJ Spanish Fly finally play the UK, who Patchwork really are, and new albums from Cate Le…
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David Lynch auction, Alex G signs to a major for his return, Tyler Ballgame live in London, Kieran Hebden and William Tyler unite, Cullen Omori is a…
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Jessica Winter's own 'Wannabe', NiN announce the driest festival of all time, buy all of Steve Albini's stuff, the great cherry shortage caused by Usher
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Québec Spring arrives in the UK, Billy Woods' horror album, These New Puritans podcast, Nourished By Time, an old punk sounds old
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