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Low Culture Podcast: Missy Elliott’s Miss E… So Addictive
In the second pod of 2026, John and Luke dive into the game changing waters of Missy Elliott's third album
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Et In Arcadia Emo: The Apple Tree Under The Sea by Hemlocke Springs
The debut album from the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter-producer, finds the digital age's only medieval princess bursting with ideas and cartoonish intensity. Truly, Hemlocke Springs contains multitudes
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Voyage from Jericho
Former Cecil Taylor side man brings together a band featuring Steve Reid and Earl Cross for a thrilling document of the New York loft jazz scene in the 1970s
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The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing
The Wakefield brothers spar with Fergal Kinney about the unlikely – and mutual – love affair between The Cribs and the combat sport.
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Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke
In the return of his quarterly column exploring bold new takes on traditional music and sounds, Patrick Clarke speaks to the figures behind the new Black British Folk Collective about their story so far, and reviews eleven new records including harsh noise bodhran, an extraordinary Occitan freakout, Armenian duduk, Polish oberek and more
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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Doctor’s Orders: Peter Capaldi’s Favourite Albums
As he prepares to embark on his first ever headline music tour, Peter Capaldi takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life, from the parallels between Talking Heads and Doctor Who, to the time he found himself in a room with Kate Bush
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DIY Against the Oligarchy: Underground Music in Tbilisi, by Nick Hudson
Nick Hudson reports from Georgia with his guide to the gripping, eclectic and unpredictable music currently being produced in the Tbilisi underground, and how the city's musical communities are stepping up in the face of significant repression
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How men are? The Preposterously Testosterone-fuelled Taxi Driver turns 50
John Quin presents a hormonally loaded take on Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader’s classic of male alienation
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What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Body of Work: How the Album Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture, author Keith Jopling looks at the curious phenomenon of the 'vanishing LP' – as well as the ones that didn't
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Ain’t Hip To Be Labelled A Hippie: The Suburban Origins of De La Soul
The origins of hip hop may be indelibly associated with New York's Five Boroughs – and the South Bronx, in particular. But in the 1980s, Long Island's De La Soul – and near contemporaries like Biz Markie, Public Enemy and Rakim – brought a new suburban sensibility to the genre. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y Age, West Virginia University Professor Austin McCoy recounts the group's early years
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