The Year So Far
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Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat's First Sex Advice Column For The Quietus
Dear Aidan, I've been with my girlfriend for five years, but recently things haven't been so g...
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Opinion
The Dark Knight of the Soul? Chris Roberts on Heath Ledger's Untimely Death
Everyone’s getting quite carried away by the new Batman movie, The Dark Knight. Audiences are a...
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Black Sky Thinking
The Unusual Sensation Of Feeling Sorry For Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong
Today Joe Lean & The Jing Jang Jong revealed that they've scrapped their debut album. Yet Luke Turner can still find it within himself to shed a tear. There are a few positions of opinion in which one never expects to find oneself. Voting Tory, p...
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Black Sky Thinking
Lydongate! Johnny's Behaviour Rotten? Swells On The 'Racist' Ruckus
Forget Morriseygate! Here's Lydongate! First came Morrisseygate where — thanks to the amazing space-age technology of the Web 2.0 — fo...
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Black Sky Thinking
Dylan vs. Cohen
Last Saturday morning, lying as usual in my pit listening to Radio 4, my somnambulant ears twit...
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Black Sky Thinking
Dead Horse Flogging With Sid Vicious at the Camden Stables Market
In his piece for the Quietus on The Joy Division industry, Chris Roberts observed that after t...
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Swells on Topshop playlisting The Rotted
In 1997 David Bowie flogged $55 million worth of 10-year bonds backed by his album sales. These...
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Cutting the Beef: Rappers unite as 50's marketing ploy fails
50 Cent has a new album out this week. A G-Unit album, no less. I know, 'cos dude's name has be...
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Black Sky Thinking
Is The BBC The Enemy Of Hip Hop?
Just over a week ago (that's about a year in Internet Time) a rapper called Lethal Bizzle playe...
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In Defence Of...
Mr Agreeable: Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit He Hates
Waking up to a breakfast set upon a silver salver of grapes, low fat pineapple yoghurt, pumpern...
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