Post Punk Urbanism in Manchester Another Council Tenancy The Los Angeles-based property developer John Lydon recently opined that he’d seen what a failure socialism...
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Cramps Confidential 1976
Girl Drummer Bares Some but Not All Erick Purkhiser, better known as Cramps leader Lux Interior, died on 4 February 2009. Long ago, and...
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Gigolos Get Lonely Too
Prince: His Protégées, Side-projects and Their Influence (Part One 1978–84) There are four main strands to Prince’s music – first, the official releases from...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
Michael Jackson in the Afterlife One Michael Jackson died in June 2009 from high levels of drugs in his body, including the powerful anaesthetic...
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Up Cedar Hill
The most interesting person I knew when I was seven was my dad. He could get the paper flat and symmetrical on the Mad...
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Fast
Napalm Death and the Possibility of Life’s Destruction It was a big day for Napalm Death. John Peel’s producer, John Walters, had called drummer...
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Est-ce est-ce si bon?
Gainsbourg in the Culture Bunker I: 1967 By early 1967, the French singer and songwriter Serge Gainsbourg had been a professional performer for nearly...
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Red Square and Southend
Talking to me last year about OffOnOff, a noise–jazz supergroup featuring members of Dutch punk collective the Ex and Italian math-rock trio Zu alongside...
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Why Don’t Groups Split Up Any More?
Why don’t groups split up any more? This immediately begs another couple of questions: why is it a problem if they don’t? Who demands...
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Party Time with David Mancuso and the Loft
Like a soup or a bicycle or Wikipedia, the Loft is an amalgamation of parts that are weak in isolation, but joyful, revelatory and...
