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Ten long reads worth keeping. The volume is above. This shelf is the library.

1. Deep Sleep On 15 October 2026 Roni Size played a timber booth 1,375 feet under a Welsh slate mine. The world-record claim went out as a submission. 17 Oct 2026
2. Signals From the Heart of the Rave Rupture turns twenty with a book written by the people on its floor, and a love letter to the South London arches it called home for eighteen years. 28 Sep 2026
3. Last Issue The Skinny spent two decades writing down Scotland's nights out. Now it is gone, and one zine has to ask another's question: who keeps the record? 28 Sep 2026
4. Romford Kept the Receipts Mega Mega opens in a soon-to-close South Street club, and it brings Boogie Times, Suburban Base and a decade of Essex white labels back under one roof. 17 Oct 2026
5. Crystal Tears on the Westside Six years after Chilombo, Jhené Aiko finishes Westside Whimsy the way she started: mixtape stubbornness, Fisticuffs in the booth, and a love letter to a coast that burned. 12 Sep 2026
6. Still Looking for the Warehouse In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats puts a visitor in a car, a service station, and a 1989 acid-house chase at Sensoria in Sheffield. 17 Oct 2026
7. Radial Wants the Midsize Room Tottenham’s new 250-cap listening club opens out of Ten87 Studios with a Whitaker-tuned Martin Audio/Funktion-One rig, a no-phones floor, and an opening weekend that stacks jungle, UK bass, house and garage. The gossip is the sound. The story is the room. 17 Oct 2026
8. The Missing P Sebadoh's Harmacy turns thirty on November 20 with sixteen extra tracks and a zine drawn by Lou Barlow, who has called the record a heartbreaker. A band that began on home-made cassettes got a Sub Pop budget, a studio and, by Barlow's account, a drummer problem. What is an album worth to the person who made it? 10 Oct 2026
9. They Settled It at Afterhours Madonna clapped back at Charli xcx’s dead-dancefloor line. Then they wrote the afters together. 17 Oct 2026
10. Party Like the Lease Is Ending Cobalt came back as punk, metal, hardcore, then a dance floor till two, with a hotel clock in the coverage and a fire that was only a blip. 12 Sep 2026