Current Issue: #337 | March 2012

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On the cover: Earth – Joseph Stannard finds out why the Seattle slowrockers are away with the fairy folk and investigating the Old, Weird Albion. Plus: Julia Holter, Michael E Veal's King Tubby Primer, Ghost Box Invisible Jukebox, Haroon Mirza Cross Platform, The Ex write about their trips to Ethiopia, Vicki Bennett's Collateral Damage, Emptyset, :zoviet*france: and more.

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Off The Page 2012

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Here are details of the programme for The Wire and Sound And Music's Off The Page festival 2012, with more to announce in the coming weeks. Off The Page 2012 takes place 24–26 February 2012 at the Playhouse Theatre, Whitstable. £40 weekend pass/£12 Friday pass/£20 Saturday pass/£15 Sunday pass. Tickets... » Read more...

Office Ambience #337

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Listen to selections from the Office Ambience for our March 2011 issue.

Collateral Damage: Vicki Bennett

In the early 2000s, increased bandwidth allowed recombinant artists to enter the gift economy. It’s a freedom we should defend at all costs, argues Vicki Bennett aka People Like Us

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