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• Hip-hop Phil Hebblethwaite talks to Digable Planets’ Ishmael Butler about the year the East Coast reclaimed hip-hop
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• College rock Sadie Dupuis from Speedy Ortiz in conversation with Stephen Malkmus on alt-rock going overground
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• Trip-hop Speaking to Tricky, Angus Batey finds out about trip-hop breaking out of Bristol
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• Britpop Sonya Madden from Echobelly tells Mark Beaumont how Britpop united a whole nation
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• Also featured: A look at when post-rock burst out of Chicago, how riot grrrl invaded pop culture, the year My So Called Life became the first TV program to rock a soundtrack and the legacy behind 1994’s most seminal albums by Morrissey, Jeff Buckley, Nick Cave, Manic Street Preachers and more…
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ALSO INSIDE THIS WEEK:

• Why are “the planets aligned for an epic night” for Phoenix? Because they’re playing one of the NME Awards shows with Austin, Texas, of course
• Is the writing on the wall for Foster The People? Yes. But don’t worry, it’s just a massive mural of their album cover.
• Who was Kevin Parker’s wardrobe inspiration at school? Michael Jackson, obviously. Chamone!
• Anatomy of an album: Orange Juice – ‘Rip It Up’
• In The Studio: Black Lips
• Interviews with:
  • Tame Impala
  • Wolf Alice
  • Radkey
  • The Strypes
  • Chvrches
  • Superfood
  • Howler
• Album Reviews:
  • Bombay Bicycle Club
  • The Family Rain
  • Arthur Beatrice
  • Breton
  • Maximo Park
• Caught Live:
  • Fucked Up
  • Diiv
  • Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
  • Waxahatchee
  • Warpaint
  • Adam Green