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Wreath Lectures
A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age
It was a decade ago, in the summer of 1999, that the first significant peer-to-peer file sharin...
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Wreath Lectures
A Decade In Review: David Stubbs Asks Whatever Happened To Pop?
What happened to pop? What's become of it? Its story in the 2000s was, on the one hand, the sto...
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Black Sky Thinking
A Clash In The Pan? London Calling Reappraised
December 14th, 1979: The Clash release London Calling just in time for it to be safety-pinned t...
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Dr Johnson
Dr Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: The Letter B
Gout-riddled scrivener and Twitter maestro Dr Samuel Johnson continues to compile his dictionar...
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Black Sky Thinking
Pop As Modernism by Robert Rowland Smith
Over time, what was foreground becomes background. In the half century of ‘pop’, of broadcast p...
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Black Sky Thinking
The Beatles Rock Band & The Rise Of Computer Game Music
October 20th 2009 was the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Abbey Road LP. Though...
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Dr Johnson
Doctor Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: A
A ABBA Quarto of Vikings most obvious in Rhyming Couplets; yet most mysterious as to who is t...
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Black Sky Thinking
Why Cannibals Are The New Zombies
So our exasperated sigh of disgust has been sucked gratefully back into our lungs at the news t...
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Black Sky Thinking
Rammstein & Girls' Mucky Vids Prove Why Rock Grot Is Rot Not Hot
The naked human form has long been used to promote music. One imagines ancient men persuading t...
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Black Sky Thinking
Post-Punk Distilled: The Raincoats' Debut Album 30 Years On
As years go, 1979 was a potent one for music. The year that brought Thatcher to power also saw,...
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