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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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Playing In The Wreckage: 65daysofstatic On Making Music Under Late Capitalism
This world has already ended. This little one we're in right now. All of the things we have her...
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From Coke & Pepsi To Red Bull, How Fizzy Drinks Swallowed Music
In a recent article for the online publication Real Life, the American philosopher Robin James ...
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Happy Birthday Abbey Road, The Best Beatles LP... This Week At Least
We're never going to get anywhere unless we have some common ground, and the common ground is t...
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Ballads Of The Sad Boys: Why Emo Makes Sense In Suburban England
In the history of music, it's unlikely there's ever been a genre more divisive than emo. Deride...
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Lana Del Rey, Daniel Johnston, Fandom & Limitlessness Of Interpretation
One of Daniel Johnston's great gifts was to teach us a new way to listen. With news that he had...
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Why Documenting Your Culture Is An Act Of Resistance, By Emma Warren
Imagine this, for a minute. A photographer has got himself into a tower block to shoot a grime ...
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Why I'm Making A Film About Wire, By Graham Duff
Exactly one year ago, I started making a feature length documentary about the post-punk band Wi...
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Concrete Science Fiction Riot: Why Do We Ignore The 70s French Underground?
English-speaking music fans don't clumsily refer to "underground and progressive German music o...
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Circular Histories: The Contemporary Resonance Of WG Sebald
“Tiny details imperceptible to us decide everything!” suggests one of W.G. Sebald’s characters ...
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