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• MIA
  Mathangi Arulpragasam unveils the depths behind her latest album ‘Matangi’ to Kevin EG Perry
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• WAXAHATHCEE AND SWEARIN’: SWN FESTIVAL
  Laura Snapes heads to the DIY festival where Waxahatchee and Swearin’ enjoy their first visit to Wales
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• COURTNEY BARNETT
  The Australian singer-songwriter talks to Phil Hebblethwaite about anxiety and the Melbourne scene
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• FROM THE VAULTS: NIRVANA, 1993
  20 years since ‘MTV:Unplugged’, we revisit Charlie Dick’s report from Nirvana’s ‘In Utero’ tour
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ALSO INSIDE THIS WEEK:

• What’s Lorde doing with David Bowie? Basically having the best 17th birthday anyone’s ever had
• Was working with Rick Rubin a good shout for Jake Bugg? Find out how his second album ‘Shangri La’ fares
• Why did Brandon Flowers start crying in a shop recently? You could say he was being a low-life…
• In the studio with Childish Gambino
• Anatomy of an album: Dangermouse ‘The Grey Album’
• Interviews with:
  • Television
  • Gem Archer
  • Beirut
  • Skaters
  • Peace
• Album Reviews:
  • Eminem
  • Diane Coffee
  • Kurt Vile
  • Blood Orange
  • Girls Names
  • Grizzly Bear
  • Jake Bugg
• Caught live:
  • Savages
  • John Cooper Clarke
  • Future Of The Left
  • Blaenavon
  • Albert Hammond Jr