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Black Sky Thinking
Against Coalition Cuts, We Find Joy In Glee Club, NW1
This Saturday night I found myself in the unusual and perplexing position of being an audience ...
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Black Sky Thinking
Do It Like A Dude: Gender Transgressions In Pop, R&B & Hip Hop
In a pithy end-of-year piece for the Village Voice, 'Katy Perry, Ke$ha, and the great gay pande...
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Black Sky Thinking
A Step In The Right Direction? We Discuss The Rise Of Mainstream Dubstep
With the release of James Blake's debut album a couple of weeks ago, and the increasing debate ...
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John Moore's Diary
John Moore Recalls Thirsty Misadventure With Zodiac Mindwarp
According to Norse legend, The Vorslung were a brave if somewhat ill-fated band of bloodthirsty...
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Black Sky Thinking
Guitar Music Is Dead. Long Live Guitar Music
Yesterday, the Guardian ran a report saying that sales figures proved that rock music is ...
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Black Sky Thinking
Why "Hotly Tipped" Brother Exemplify Perennial Tipster Idiocy
"If you don't want to hear the future of music, leave now." Lee Newell, Brother Those were Bro...
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Wreath Lectures
Wreath Lectures 2010: We All Play Synth - 2010 In Analogue From Hipsters To System Engineers
In 2010, not laughing at hipsters was hipper than laughing at hipsters, because too many people...
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Wreath Lectures
"What Are You Doing In There?" The Rise and Fall of Bedroom Music
2010 was meant to be the year of the bedroom recording, thanks to the swelling of a genre that ...
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Black Sky Thinking
Jay-Z Vs Big L: Both Deserve Better Than Weak Reissues & Posthumous LPs
Winter in New York, February 1995. Somewhere between one and five AM, either late night Thursda...
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Wreath Lectures
Reformation Culture In 2010: Why We Should Welcome Returning Heroes
So this is something which has been stewing on low heat for the best part of a decade now, but ...
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