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Why Whitey Needs To Get Off Lou Reed's Dick And Onto Lady Gaga
Between the grizzled threesome of Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and David Bowie, bad sex, worse drugs, and...
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Why Everybody Hurts Is The Last Thing Haiti Needs
Once upon a time, there was a slip of a song, a soft statement of directness, tucked into the f...
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Hyperdub 2010 And Kode9, The Knight Of The Living Bassheads
What’s the best way you can imagine for a soundman to wrap up the first decade of the millenium...
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Why Courtney Love Was Kurt Cobain's Lyrical Equal
Hark now, hear the angels sing: Kurt Cobain is back once more. Or, more accurately, he's never ...
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A Clash In The Pan? London Calling Reappraised
December 14th, 1979: The Clash release London Calling just in time for it to be safety-pinned t...
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Pop As Modernism by Robert Rowland Smith
Over time, what was foreground becomes background. In the half century of ‘pop’, of broadcast p...
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The Beatles Rock Band & The Rise Of Computer Game Music
October 20th 2009 was the 40th anniversary of the release of The Beatles' Abbey Road LP. Though...
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Why Cannibals Are The New Zombies
So our exasperated sigh of disgust has been sucked gratefully back into our lungs at the news t...
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Rammstein & Girls' Mucky Vids Prove Why Rock Grot Is Rot Not Hot
The naked human form has long been used to promote music. One imagines ancient men persuading t...
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Post-Punk Distilled: The Raincoats' Debut Album 30 Years On
As years go, 1979 was a potent one for music. The year that brought Thatcher to power also saw,...
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