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Low Culture Essay: Arusa Qureshi on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater Soundtracks
Arusa Qureshi was never allowed a skateboard, but the soundtracks to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series of computer games were a vital introduction to music – one that, she argues, was far more effective than today's algorithm-driven discovery mechanisms
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Cut the Crop: Agriculture Interviewed
While black metal history is often the story of errant youth reaping chaos, Agriculture plough their own furrow. Dan Franklin meets a band who sow explosive seeds via songwriting and then reap joyous brinkmanship onstage. Main portrait by Olivia Crumm
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The Strange World Of… Saint Etienne
After 35 years of reinventing British pop, Saint Etienne’s Bob, Pete and Sarah are hanging up their samples, synthesisers, feather boas and football strips for good. Jude Rogers offers 10 ways into their always surprising, genre-splicing back catalogue, from their early days with C86 bands and Andrew Weatherall to their final, star-filled album
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Low Culture Essay: Arusa Qureshi on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater Soundtracks
Arusa Qureshi was never allowed a skateboard, but the soundtracks to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series of computer games were a vital introduction to music – one that, she argues, was far more effective than today's algorithm-driven discovery mechanisms
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
When Marie Le Conte moved from Nantes to London she rejected her French identity, along with a teenage infatuation with Phoenix' fourth album. Years later, she reflects on how the "youth and hope and enthusiasm bottled inside ten neat and clean little songs" actually allows her to have a conversation with her past self about life, love and becoming.
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Arusa Qureshi on the Tony Hawk Pro Skater Soundtracks
Arusa Qureshi was never allowed a skateboard, but the soundtracks to Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series of computer games were a vital introduction to music – one that, she argues, was far more effective than today's algorithm-driven discovery mechanisms
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
When Marie Le Conte moved from Nantes to London she rejected her French identity, along with a teenage infatuation with Phoenix' fourth album. Years later, she reflects on how the "youth and hope and enthusiasm bottled inside ten neat and clean little songs" actually allows her to have a conversation with her past self about life, love and becoming.
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Low Culture Podcast: Metallica’s The Black Album
In this month’s podcast, John Doran and Luke Turner let their ears submit to the heftily roving riffs of Metallica’s 1991 colossus, a record that changed the trajectory of American mainstream rock
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Organic Intelligence XLVII: Microtonal Jazz
In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Stewart Smith explains how microtonal jazz can help dissolve Western preconceptions of how music is constructed and understood
