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The Quietus Essay
A Pressing Business: tQ Goes Inside A Czech Vinyl Plant
There's a village in the Czech Republic called Loděnice, a 30-minute drive southwest of P...
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Sonic Sabotage: The Noisy History Of Auto-Destructive Music
This message will self-destruct in five seconds. The tape sparks and fizzles in the deck....
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Stupid & Sophisticated: The Rise & Rise Of The Seven Nation Army Riff
Like Jake and Elwood, Jack White felt he was on a mission from God to bring the blues scr...
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Laughing In The Face Of Death: On Paris & The Charlie Hebdo Attack
Image via conejota/Shutterstock Yesterday morning people were being shot dead in cold blo...
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Optrex For Your Third Eye: What Does Psychedelia Mean In 2014?
In The Masthead introduction to issue 357 of The WIRE which came out last November, Edito...
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How Motorik Infected The Mainstream, By Future Days Author David Stubbs
Brian Eno would declare the Dingerbeat devised by Neu!'s Klaus Dinger to be one of the three gr...
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Fictions Built Upon Fictions: The Decline Of Totality In Pop
A new kind of music is sweeping the nation's youth. Its sound is deliberately alien and i...
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A Revolution In The Head: The Other Side Of Monty Python
The thing is, rock bands can reform when they're 70 and play the old songs in a lower key...
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Yearning For Impossible Escape: Sun Ra, Afro-Futurist Godfather
Born 100 years ago today, though he claimed to have arrived here from the planet Saturn, ...
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Song Of The Digital Flesh: Vocal Manipulation & Our Cyborg Selves
In a recent article for e-flux, Hito Steyerl questions the assumption espoused by the ter...
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