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Thurston Moore: ‘I didn’t want to get into a Morrissey thing of settling scores’
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Gina Birch of The Raincoats: ‘We tried to make something a bit feisty, a bit courageous’
The punk icon, who has just made a fantastic solo album, on feminisim, Kurt Cobain and John Lydon
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US indie icon talks about her childhood kidnapping and her repressive upbringing
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Ellie Goulding: ‘I was made to feel like a sexual object’
The singer is back after five years away with a bold new sound – and an urge to speak out
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Stephen Malkmus embraces his traditional side on his third solo album
Carrie Brownstein: ‘She left. We asked her to stay. We tried’
Sleater-Kinney have new album, produced by St Vincent, and are going back on the road, but without drummer Janet Weiss. Brownstein reflects on the Washington band’s ever-evolving story
Kim Gordon: ‘I never think of myself as famous – I’m barely famous’
The Sonic Youth co-founder on her new exhibition at IMMA, her relationship with fame, the changing face of feminism and her strange fascination with Airbnb
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Icebreaker at the NCH; Lisa O’Neill and Junior Brother in Galway; Eve Belle at Whelan’s
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
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Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot: Good biopic that hits a wall
Review: Gus Van Sant in better form in film about quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan
‘Oasis distorted the idea of what the Manchester scene was’
Dave Haslam, onetime Hacienda DJ, has vignettes on Madchester, Morrissey and Mark E Smith
Time to check your record collection – there may be a masterpiece on the sleeve
Writer and art historian Francesco Spampinato explores collaborations between musician and artists in his new book Art Record Covers
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The street art that emerged around the marriage referendum coloured not just walls and doorways but also conversations
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‘Girl in a Band’ is a story of a city and of artistic families – and it delivers on the musical gossip too
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