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The Quietus Essay
How I Learned To Love Tony Blackburn, By Pete Paphides
Image via Shutterstock We should have been in Birmingham Central Library revising for our...
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Black Sky Thinking
The NME Celebrates Rock & Roll's 50th Birthday
While out taking his daily constitutional in Central London, David Stubbs happened across...
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Black Sky Thinking
A Special Relationship? Lancing The Rhetoric On US Visas For UK Artists
The UK music industry is up in arms about the cost of Visas that enable artists and their...
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The Quietus Essay
"Dancing For The World": Stepping Inside Footwork
When I arrive at Pineapple Dance Studios in central London, the first of The Era's two fo...
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Black Sky Thinking
No Longer Outsiders? On South Asian Representation In UK Culture
Photo courtesy JStone/Shutterstock "[Diversity] is just something other. Something specia...
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Black Sky Thinking
Now The Workers Have Struck For Fame – David Bowie As Political Figure
David Bowie will not be mourned first and foremost as a politicised figure. In fact, if anythin...
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Black Sky Thinking
Time May Change Me: David Bowie, Blackstar & Mortality, by Chris Roberts
"This is a special way of being afraid No trick dispels. Religion used to try, That old...
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Black Sky Thinking
David Bowie: The Return Of The Thin White Hope
Garbo talks! And suddenly 2013 has started, with the return of a thin white hope. Make no...
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The Quietus Essay
25 Years After Its Imperial Phase: Who Killed Shoegaze?
Whenever the story of shoegazing is told today - when Slowdive reform to headline festiva...
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Wreath Lectures
The Near-Death Of Raves: The Fate Of Independent Music Venues In 2015
2015 may come to be seen as a watershed in the gradual erosion of the UK’s small-scale mu...
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