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Black Sky Thinking
We’re Free? What Are You Being Served Tells Us About Brexit
As the EU waves goodbye on Brexit Day, Alexei Monroe looks at two declining institution full of sexist attitudes and obsessed with better days that never really were and joins the dots between England and Grace Brothers' Department Store of 70s sitcom Are You Being Served
Metal
Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan
Listen and understand, says Kez Whelan. Heavy metal is out there. It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop ever until you are banging your head to some sweet riffology
Black Sky Thinking
Listen Deeper: The Strange Case Of Iannis Xenakis & Pauline Oliveros
Iannis Xenakis has long been seen as a titan of modern composition, written about in awed tones, the subject of innumerable retrospectives. Yet why, asks Dan Siepmann, has his work for so long overshadowed non-male artists like Pauline Oliveros?
