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Black Sky Thinking
“What Are You Doing In There?” The Rise and Fall of Bedroom Music
"I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed," once sang Noel Gallagher. Tim Burrows, on the other hand, argues that those bedroom-dwelling music makers who were hyped to change the face of music in 2010 aren't as ground-breaking as many first thought...
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Baker's Dozen
Ennio Morricone RIP: 13 Artists And Writers On Their Favourite Morricone Compositions
As news breaks that the prolific and acclaimed composer Ennio Morricone has sadly died at the age of 91, we compile a Baker's Dozen of artists and writers on their favourite work by Il Maestro, from Jane Weaver and Blanck Mass to Årabrot and Rachel Zeffira
The Quietus International
Inner Ear: Polish Music For January Reviewed By Jakub Knera
Jakub Knera looks at contemporary electronic sounds, alternative rock and improvised music from Poland in this new column focusing on central and eastern Europe, including the weird electronica of Piotr Kurek and Wojciech Rusin, the new guitar perspectives of Kurws and Trupa Trupa and analyses how the pandemic inspired Resina and Martyna Basta’s latest albums
Black Sky Thinking
What The Blue Story Ban Tells Us About Racism In Britain
Jeffrey Boakye argues that the banning of Blue Story by two cinema chains shows how in the UK black art is held to different standards to everything else, and "a reminder of just how poised society is to reject blackness on the assumption that it can be a corrupting force"
