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Black Sky Thinking
How Punks In Churches Changed Germany & What Still Needs To Be Done
Thirty years on from the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Peter remembers a childhood where music was an escape from the strictures of Communism and punk gigs in churches were subversive acts and asks, what needs to happen to complete the process of reunification? Photo of Di Toten Hosen at a church gig by Mark Reeder
Books
Collapsed Horizon: Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, 40 Years On
In the fortieth anniversary year of Philip K Dick's fortieth novel, Eli Lee finds a prescient and poignant work of grief, less concerned with sci-fi predictions of the future than with exorcising the ghosts of the past and confronting the quiet horror of addiction in the present
Baker's Dozen
Creation Of Worlds: Bok Bok Discusses 13 Favourite Albums
Ahead of his new EP Your Charizmatic Self, the Night Slugs co-founder meets Rory Gibb to discuss thirteen favourite albums, from pioneering R&B production to grime's sonic brutalism and the blossoming influence of labelmate Jam City
Baker's Dozen
Denial Of The Species: Lee Buford Of The Body’s Favourite Albums
With the UK leg of their European tour drawing to a close with sets in Bristol tonight and on the Quietus' Desertfest stage tomorrow, Lee Buford of the none-bleaker American sludge duo picks out 13 all-time top records and pens us his own Baker's Dozen
