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Woodstock ’99 was meant to celebrate thirty years of love and counterculturalism. However, it quickly descended into a weekend of fires, riots and rapes. Jamie Crawford’s Netflix miniseries explores in powerful depth how a once-in-a-generation extravaganza imploded.
Fable was going to be the UK’s next breakout star, until her ex-girlfriend committed suicide and she quit making music. Six years later, the art-pop enigma has returned with her debut album Shame. She tells whynow about her story so far.
When Canada entered lockdown, synth rockers Metric fled Toronto and built a studio in a rural church. There they sought psychological escapes in Monty Python, fantasising about Spanish holidays, and making new album Formentera, as singer Emily Haines and guitarist James Shaw discuss.
Manchester’s art rockers used an AI called Kevin to co-write lyrics for their sixth album. However, beneath the gimmick, Raw Data Feel is the antidote to Covid-19 blues, as guitarist Alex Robertshaw reveals.
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The party piece of Everything Everything’s sixth album is that it was co-written by an AI called Kevin. However, beneath the gimmicks, the Manchester art rockers have created an hour of endearing summertime silliness.
