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This week special guests Miranda Sawyer and Hannah Verdier join Andrew and Matt to discuss the return of Clarkson, Hammond and May in Amazon's The Grand Tour, and Kate Bush’s live album. Plus London club Fabric gets one last chance, and Kanye West cancels his tour amid rumours of breakdowns. Warning: contains the phrase “Totally Quatermass!” Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week we talk about A Tribe Called Quest’s incredible final album, alien first contact movie Arrival and godfather of DJ culture David Mancuso with guests Joe Muggs of Mixmag and Mark Hooper of Hole & Corner magazine. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

A spoiler-heavy discussion of Denis Villeneuve's sci-fi brain twister Arrival, with Andrew, Matt and guests Joe Muggs and Mark Hooper. WARNING: If you haven’t seen the movie – don’t listen! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week Laura Barton and Laura Snapes join Andrew and Matt in the pod to discuss the Sotheby’s auction of David Bowie’s art, autobiographies by Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Marr, and the plague of articles asking “Where is all the protest music?” Click to listen… See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the smart pop culture podcast this week: rock photography war stories from the legendary Kevin Westenberg, the man responsible for the look of 4AD Records and much more. Plus Luke Turner from The Quietus joins Matt and Andrew to talk Solange Knowles’ extraordinary album and ask whether your musical tastes shape your politics, or vice versa? Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

It's a cosmic week on the smart pop culture podcast, as we look at the Bowie ’Lazarus’ play and Marvel’s Doctor Strange plus Pete Burns and Steve Dillon. Special guests are Nicholas Pegg – author of ’The Complete David Bowie’ – and Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Guests Andrew Male and Johnny Davis join us to discuss the new album from Leonard Cohen and Half Man Half Biscuit’s rarities compilation. And we enter the 36th (debating) Chamber to figure out which MPs sound like they should be in the Wu-Tang Clan. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Guests James Medd and author Simon Reynolds (Energy Flash, Retromania) join Andrew and Matt to talk Bolan, Bowie and more from Simon's new glam rock epic Shock And Awe. Plus Sky Atlantic’s new robots-go-wrong series Westworld, wild world psychedelia from Scandinavia enigmas Goat, and much more. Click to listen now. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Special guests Andrew Perry of the Telegraph and Jody Thompson join Andrew and Matt to chew over Netflix's new hip hop-soaked Marvel adaptation, Luke Cage. They also dissect the new albums from Bon Iver and Pixies, and look back at the life of Cleethorpes' own songwriting legend, Rod Temperton of ‘Thriller’ fame. Click to listen! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week's slice of “premier league culture punditry” (cheers, The Guardian) sees Supplement magazine editor Justin Quirk plus Joel Morris (top comedy writer and co-creator of the grown-up Ladybird books) join Andrew and Matt. They revisit the hubristic heights of Britpop with the 3CD reissue of ‘Be Here Now’, admit to records they love by bands they hate, and talk about some new tunes too. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the smart pop culture podcast this week – Nick Cave, Slaves and Yello’s new albums, the fight to save beleagured superclub Fabric, and the dirty underbelly of reviewing records. Special guests are Jude Rogers of The Guardian and Simon Price of Q and Melody Maker. Click to listen! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week’s smart pop culture podcast, the Mercury Prize: will it be Bowie, Kano, Radiohead, Bat For Lashes…? In a special edition our guests, writers Sîan Pattenden and Eamonn Forde of The Guardian, talk through the list and give our verdict on this year's nominees. Plus we look at Amazon’s summer pilot season shows ‘The Tick’, ‘Jean-Claude Van Johnson’ and ‘I Love Dick’ . Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the smart pop culture podcast: Gabba gabba oh God, is it really 40 years of The Ramones? Did the BBC remake or ruin ‘Porridge' and ‘Are You Being Served?’ And should we nationalise pop music? Special guests are Andrew Male of Mojo and David Stubbs of The Guardian. Click to listen See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week‘s smart pop culture podcast: Happy 30th Chestburstday to James Cameron’s ‘Aliens’ – plus Frank Ocean’s new album, ‘The Get Down’ on Netflix and our fantasy festival picks. Special guests this week are Luke Turner of The Quietus and Joe Muggs of The Guardian and Mixmag. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week's smart pop culture podcast: Obama's summer mixtape, the return of De La Soul, a surprisingly moving Gary Numan documentary, and more. Special guests are Esquire Magazine's Johnny Davis and Dorian Lynskey of The Guardian. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

We're skiving off on our hols – so here’s some of our favourite music discussion from the last few months: Alexis Petridis and Sylvia Patterson on ABC, Michael Hogan and Hannah Verdier on Bat For Lashes, Kate Mossman on The Monkees… and the obligatory much, much more. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On the thinking person’s pop culture podcast this week: Netflix’s fantastic ‘Stranger Things’, Wild Beasts’ new album, and has music gone ME-ME-ME mental in our new age of narcissistic pop? Special guests Laura Snapes and Michael Hann join Andrew and Matt to argue the “toss”. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

On this week’s smart pop culture podcast: Paul Morley’s book ‘The Age Of Bowie’… Luke Cage, Wonder Woman and the Marvel/DC trailer tsunami… Star Trek: Beyond… classic British psych rock, and more. Special guests are Dan ‘Harry Hill’ Maier and Michael ‘The Internet’ Moran. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This week on the smart pop culture podcast, special guests Laura Barton of The Guardian and Robin Turner of Caught By The River join Matt and Andrew. On the agenda: Laura goes up Pompeii with David Gilmour and Mary Beard, the legacy of Alan Vega, the joy of terrible reggae covers, and is it time to stop worrying and learn to love Simple Minds? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Can it really be ten years since the very last Top Of The Pops? Could it ever come back? We ask this week's special guests Simon Price and David Stubbs – and get their tales from life at their alma mater, the Melody Maker paper. Also, is The Avalanches new album any good? This and more with co-presenters Andrew Harrison and Matt Hall. Click to listen. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices