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Thegodfather of goth? Not if he can help it. Bauhaus’s loquacious frontman holds forth on TheCure, meeting Bowie and how to make an entrance: “I knew what I was doing” Interview by SAM RICHARDS
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FULL TIME HOBBY
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FLOATING POINTS, PHAROAH SANDERS & THE LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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ON THE CD
A guide to this month’s special compilation
IT’S ALL RIGHT MA, IT’S ONLY WITCHCRAFT
RT on Joe Boyd , the man who sawFairport’s “natural potential” 
“WHATEVER JOHN WANTS”
“Stark and bold”: Cale and Reed at NewYork’s
“ARE YOU AWARE OF THIS BATTLE?”
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My Life In Music
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TUNING INTO A MOMENT
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The Velvet Underground
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“BLUEPRINT? WE DIDN’T WANT TO KNOW”
JOHN CALE remembers Lou, Nico, days at the Factory and “raw, unfettered nihilistic exploration” 
“A CREATIVE PLAYGROUND”
Dylan’s cinematic biographer TODD HAYNES takes us behind the scenes of his upcoming Velvets documentary. “One hopes for masses of unreleased tapes…” 
“IDEAS, APPROACHES, PROCESSES!”
BRIAN ENO on the Velvets’ influence 
“LIFE-OR-DEATH, SEARCHING MUSIC”
Before he launched The  Modern Lovers, superfan    JONATHAN RICHMAN saw TheVelvet Underground play dozens of times. Who better, then, to chart the band’s transition from “drone misfits” to “flowerpattern-shirt balladeers”.  Here, he writes exclusively for Uncut about the band that changed everything…
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DOUG YULE on replacing John Cale, the third album, Loaded and being mistaken for Lou Reed by David Bowie…
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Theunstoppable RHIANNON GIDDENS has spent a career recovering the African-American histories buried in folk music. Now, locked down in Limerick, she tells Laura Barton how her latest album – including a bunch of “old sad songs” – remind her of home and of generations past. “I am the sum of everything that I do,” she explains
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Postcard Records
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… and photographs, ticket stubs, collages, record sleeves and much more. Welcome to the POSTCARD RECORDS scrapbook: your guide is none other than ALAN HORNE. In a rare and exclusive interview, the label’s mercurial co-founder talks Damien Love through his personal selection of artefacts and ephemera from deep within the label’s vaults. “There was nothing remotely like this malarkey going on back then.”
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MOGWAI
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