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You pay a premium, wait a few days, and then receive it back in that crisp plastic sleeve, looking as good as new. But have you ever wondered what actually happens at the dry cleaners? Maybe you’ve ...

From $150 to as much as you want to spend, the outfits in figure skating have to be more than merely functional: 'They're part of the story' You can save this article by registering for free here. Or ...

Electrical work. Pizza-making. Cutting your own bangs. Some things are better left to professionals to handle. After testing three at-home dry-cleaning kits, I’m adding dry cleaning to that list, too.

“The objects outside the head control the mind,” says Florence Shaw, less than a minute into Secret Love. “To arrange them is to control people’s thinking.” She’s backed by a distant rhythm made to ...

This FUV Live session is also available as a podcast, "FUV Live Sessions." We're elevating WFUV's long history of live sessions and interviews via a podcast that you can find on Spotify, Apple ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Alienation is a dividing line between punk and post-punk. Feelings of estrangement from society were crucial to ...

Ending the LP is “Joy,” a song offering optimism to those who need it most. “Recently I’ve felt pessimistic about the world,” vocalist Florence Shaw says. “The influence of what they call ‘the ...

Florence Shaw doesn’t tell jokes. As the singer-lyricist for the British post-punk band Dry Cleaning, she speaks in fragments and riddles, in social commentary and startling understatement, mixing ...

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The song is the latest preview of the South London post-punk band’s third studio album, ‘Secret Love’, which is released this Friday (January 9) via 4AD. Pre-order/pre-save here. For ‘Joy’, the lyrics ...

As 2025 winds down, we’ve been asking artists about their favorite music of the year. Three members of Dry Cleaning — bassist Lewis Maynard, guitarist Tom Dowse, and vocalist and lyricist Florence ...