The Year So Far
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Biblical Verse: How Grime And Christianity Intersect
For years now, grime and religion have both been important to me, but I've always had an intern...
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Why It's Time To End The Myth Of Suffering & Creativity
When I was 14 I tippexed a quote from Nietzche on my school folder: "One must have chaos within...
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Why Mainstream AIDS Drama It's A Sin Is Right To Provoke Tears Of Rage
There's a shot in the first episode of It's A Sin, Russell T Davies' intensely moving new drama...
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Solidarity Beyond Borders: Why Artist Visas Are More Than A Brexit Issue
The recent rejection of a visa-free work permit for touring UK-based artists and industry profe...
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What Foul-Mouthed Singer Kunt & The Gang Tells Us About Offence in 2021
Although the majority of the those who streamed or bought ‘Boris Johnson Is A Fucking Cunt’, a ...
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Nature Is Healing? Our Relationship With The Non-Human In COVID-19
On an evening in the interminable smudge of early lockdown, my eye was caught by a death in the...
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Sick Sounds: Did COVID-19 Ruin Music's Healing Power?
Music as a healing power might be a cliché, but it's one that also happens to be true. For obse...
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What Does 'Hard' Mean, Anyway? Unpicking Dance Music's Extremity Fetish
One of the constant sources of pain to older ravers – alongside ground-out ankles and the naggi...
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Home Bass: How Music Helps Us Work & Create Through Lockdown
Back in early April arts correspondent Lanre Bakare watched Thundercat unpick his favourite bas...
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An Outlet To Scream: On Motherhood & Music-Making
Rage, righteous fury, loneliness, guilt, grief: all emotions that charge into music as a conseq...
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