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The Quietus Essay
We Are All Religious Now: Holy Music In A Secular World
If there's one aspect of life vicars know a lot about, it's death. While many people drea...
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Not Bad For Girls: The Sad Necessity Of The Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction
There are a lot of things about the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction that it's easy to s...
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Modern Life Isn't Rubbish: The Trouble With Britpop Nostalgia
"They say the past must die / For the future to be born / In that case die... die..." Pul...
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Why The Music Business Shouldn't Turn Into The Art Business
"Is exclusivity versus mass replication really the 50 million dollar difference between a...
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Hunks Punch Lunks: The Fascist Sex Cult Of The Professionals
I once lived above a shop in Archway. You reached the flats through a door from the stree...
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Chris Roberts On Kate Bush Live
Wow. Just saying it could even make it happen. In April 1979, 20-year-old Kate Bush unde...
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The Seven Ages Of The World Cup Song
Photograph courtesy of Gary Lineker/Twitter There are less than 90 days until the Brazili...
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Oh No, Pono: The Trouble With Neil Young's New Player
I have long bemoaned the mp3 and its oft-times accomplice the iPod. I buy music mostly on...
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The Quietus Essay
A Place To Dream: Arcadia, The Kitchen & The History Of NY Lofts
William Basinski in Arcadia "Since the high renaissance, society has always found a place ...
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Deference TV? Political Bias & Why The BBC Should Fight Back
During October last year, unwarily dozing listeners to BBC Radio 4's Today programme had ...
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