Black Sky Thinking
Essays, investigation and opinion on today’s cultural landscape
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Daily Mail Fail: Rank Hypocrisy On Pop Music & Sexualised Teens
The Daily Mail today printed an article by Mike Stock complaining about the sexualisation of children through pop music. But, points out Luke Turner, the tabloid's printing of semi-naked photos of a 17-year-old singer and Stock's on dubious past makes them flagrant hypocrites
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F.O. Computer, By Ian Rankin: Why Radiohead Are Radiodead To Me
Music lover and bestselling author Ian Rankin seems to be just one of many Radiohead fans who have yet to receive their deluxe edition of King Of Limbs. Here he explains why a Kafkaesque palava has left him disillusioned with the band.
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How The Music Industry Is Killing Music And Blaming The Fans
While the industry continues to blame illegal downloading for its financial woes, it’s musicians who are paying the price while being forced to work harder than ever. But label inertia means culture itself is at stake, and even democracy could suffer, argues Wyndham Wallace
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Lady Gaga’s ‘Judas’ & The Betrayal Of Netocracy
Emily Bick looks at the similarities between Lady Gaga's 'Judas' shtick, subversive Swedish pop group Army Of Lovers and the affiliated Alexander Bard's Netocracy to argue that the star's glamourous facade is a "prophylactic barrier to two-way engagement"
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Against Coalition Cuts, We Find Joy In Glee Club, NW1
Cripes & Jivens! on Saturday, Luke Turner wound up in the audience at a Glee musical. This was no West End schmaltzathon, mind, but the fruit of an invaluable community project of the kind currently facing the axe due to government cuts
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“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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The Absence Of Alice Coltrane – Reflections On Spiritual Eternal
In 1975, Alice Coltrane left the Impulse label and moved to less-jazzy more-rocky Warner Bros, where she made three studio albums in three years – Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana and Transcendence – just remastered and reissued all together as Spiritual Eternal. They mark a key turning point in Coltrane’s journey away from jazz and the music industry – except Alice Coltrane never moved on from anything, she just kept on going and growing
