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The Quietus' Readers On Their General Election Fears & Hopes
We at The Quietus do not believe that art can be separated from the society that creates ...
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What Kind Of Party Doesn't Have A DJ? On Politics & Grime
I'm losing count of the number of times I've written that grime is inherently political. ...
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Why A Punk Fest Celebrating People Of Colour Is Needed In 2017
As I write this the first ever UK punk festival created by and for people of colour looms...
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Why Morrissey Is Dead To Me, By Gene's Martin Rossiter
I share a lot of fans with Morrissey (much fewer, I don't need to admit) and this is why ...
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Off The Record: How Studios Subliminally Silence Women
Early on in my music studio career, I had a job as an assistant engineer for an all-male ...
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Is Poptimism Now As Blinkered As The Rockism It Replaced?
"A rockist is someone who reduces rock & roll to a caricature, then uses that caricat...
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Love Time: Exploring Can Drummer Jaki Liebezeit's E-T Rhythm Theory
Jaki Liebezeit's surname translated fittingly: Love time. For 50 years he pursued an enduring f...
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The Reports Of The Record Industry's Rebirth Are Greatly Exaggerated
The record industry has taken such a horrific and unrelenting shoe-ing since 2000 that an...
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Why Live Music On British TV Needs More Than Just Jools
Spoon, who play the inaugral episode of Later's 50th series. Photo by Zackery Michael Lat...
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Ultimately Meaningless: Banksy's Walled Off Hotel Is The Nadir Of Street Art
Banksy has described his latest work, the Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, as “a three-stor...
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