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Noise-pop artist Wise Blood opens up about debut album <em>Id</em>; stream it now

Noise-pop artist Wise Blood opens up about debut album Id; stream it now

18th June 2013 • No Comments

Next week, Wise Blood will release his debut album, Id. For a while, it seemed like that day would never come. Wise Blood is Pittsburgh songwriter Chris Laufman. Laufman builds non-traditional [...]

On Record: DJ Spinn on how Freddie Gibbs’ ‘Thuggin’ “broke down the whole mentality of our region”

17th June 2013 • No Comments

On Record is a regular feature on FACT in which we ask an artist we admire to pick a record that means a lot to them, and use it as a jumping off point for a conversation. In this edition, we [...]

Free Agents: Patrick Emm

16th June 2013 • No Comments

Free Agents is a new feature series where we shine the spotlight on an up-and-coming act who’s yet to have a proper release – at least, not one that we’re aware of, and yes, we know that th [...]

Keeping it in the family: Auntie Flo on Highlife and the politics of World music

Words by Lauren Martin • 15th June 2013 • No Comments

On June 29th 1987, Ben Mandelson and Roger Armstrong of Ace Records imprint GlobeStyle called the first of three meetings with representatives of the UK media in an upstairs room of the Empress o [...]

Special edition rap comics: Killer Mike and El-P are Run The Jewels

Interviewed by Laurent Fintoni • 14th June 2013 • No Comments

The most memorable rap moments are always those that appeal to the inner fanboys in all of us. And this has only gotten truer as the culture and music has gotten older. Last year’s R.A.P. Mu [...]

“You have to be quite obsessive”: These New Puritans on their dizzying new opus <em>Field Of Reeds</em>

“You have to be quite obsessive”: These New Puritans on their dizzying new opus Field Of Reeds

Words by Chal Ravens • 14th June 2013 • No Comments

Far too many people are mistaken about These New Puritans. Despite the critical attention lavished on their second album, 2010's Hidden, a quick poll of friends, colleagues and distant internet [...]

Lost in the world: Kanye West’s 10 best non-album cuts

13th June 2013 • No Comments

With Kanye West's sixth — and from the sounds of it, most ambitious — studio effort due out in just days, we figured it would be a good time to look back at the hip-hop icon's decade-long solo [...]

Writing water: Matias Aguayo on Kompakt, clubbing and dodging the norm

13th June 2013 • No Comments

Chilean-born and Cologne-raised, Matias Aguayo doesn't tend to stay in one place for too long. Aguayo's breakthrough came with his work with ultra-melodic Kompakt duo Closer Musik in the earl [...]

“Imagine being put inside a big drum with your family and then sent out for a ride in space”: freaking out with masked mystics Goat

Interviewed by Arron Merat • 12th June 2013 • No Comments

As Blur’s 'Girls & Boys' sparks the first visible signs of excitement at Barcelona’s Primavera festival, whose concrete expanse feels not dissimilar to a chilly Clapham car park, it’s ha [...]