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Why Wire Were The New Beatles, by Nicholas Lezard
I first became Wire-conscious in 1979, when an A & R man from EMI came to listen to the cra...
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Listen Deeper: The Strange Case Of Iannis Xenakis & Pauline Oliveros
There tends to be only incidental conversation between so-called academic and popular music. An...
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Joyous Things & Dark Clouds: Outlands & Art Funding In 2020
BodyVice “Being an experimental musician is signing up to a life of beans from Lidl,” jokes Nat...
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How Rosalía's Music Is A Journey To The Heart Of Divided Spain
For an ostensibly apolitical person Catalan singer Rosalía Vila Tobella has endured a deeply po...
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Why Celebrities & Brands Can No Longer Hide Their Political Allegiances
This election cycle has taught us many things, one of which is just how fragile the pretense of...
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What The Blue Story Ban Tells Us About Racism In Britain
Let’s cut to the chase: The decision taken by two separate cinema chains to ban Blue Story, a n...
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Idle Threat: Who Are The True Champions Of DIY Rock In 2020?
There have been some half-hearted attempts to kickstart a new genre of alternative rock music t...
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The Black Peril & 100 Years Of Race Riot, By Soweto Kinch
Precisely 100 years ago, streets and homes were set ablaze from Glasgow, Cardiff and Hull to So...
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How Punks In Churches Changed Germany & What Still Needs To Be Done
The Berlin Wall came down six weeks before I turned 13. My life had been very quiet up to this ...
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No Obligatory Excuse: Is 'The Classical' By The Fall Racist?
When I cracked the spine on Paul Hanley’s excellent book Have A Bleedin Guess recently I immedi...
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