The Year So Far
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The Quietus Essay
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The Quietus Essay
The Mark Is Upon Them! The Musical Legacy Of Witchfinder General
Listen to a Witchfinder General Spotify playlist here With law and order long gone rotten and ...
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Right Out Of Hand: The Joy & Shambles of Bananarama
Bananarama were pop’s rowdy girl group of the 80s, with a classic punk sensibility. Their 1983 ...
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Why There's More To Christian Music Than Tepid Praise Songs
On most Sundays, in a church hall in Devon, you can hear a repetitive, communal hallelujah chan...
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It’s Art, Darling: Kate Bush, Duckie & Loyalty In The Wilderness Years
It’s difficult to appreciate this now that she’s (rightly) canonised, but back in the mid 90s K...
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A Broad Church: Why Metal Can't Survive Without Religion
Faith and religious observance are not so much a preoccupation for metal music, as an obsession...
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Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture
In our 'everything is on the internet and everything is free' modern culture, debates over copy...
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How I Made A Record With 30,000-Year-Old Bone Flutes
I've been a musician, producer and composer all my life, as well as being a University Lecturer...
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The Absence Of Alice Coltrane – Reflections On Spiritual Eternal
Getting over yourself is a lifelong job; you really have to keep at it, and most of us never ma...
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Gravedancing: Pig Destroyer, Grindcore And The End Times
All Pig Destroyer portraits by Joey Wharton If speed kills, grindcore incinerates. In the eigh...
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Quatermass: Brexit & A Warning from TV History
BBC viewers are currently getting (re)-acquainted with Professor Bernard Quatermass, one of the...
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