An Uncanny Phenomenon: Wild Kingdom (Clayton Campbell)

Los Angeles media artist Clayton Campbell unveils a difference in perception between today’s society and past generations'...

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Loitered Lens : Magenta

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

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Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

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Moving glass, Bending Light. Linda Sue Price (Interview)

Experience neon in a new way — not as a sign — rather as fluidly moving glass ...

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Boys on parade (Beasts)

It’s an unspoken thing really, whether we play to five people or a thousand, it just comes out naturally. As soon as we start playing it just happens for us....

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No Ruinporn Here. Altstadt Echo Modern Cathedrals pt. 1 & 2

Modern Cathedrals label founder Altstadt Echo steers between these two seductive poles, resisting the temptation to sonically contribute to the proliferation of Detroitian ruinporn ...

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Loitered Lens : The Movielife

Proving time hasn’t dampened the punk rock spirit or the sheer energy of The Movielife....

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Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub's technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats....

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Flights of Fancy and an Unwanted Runway

The UK has not built a full-length runway in the South East since World War 2. Should it?...

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Let’s carry on from where we left off (The Movielife)

For a band who most thought would never reunite (including the band themselves) this return to the stage was grasped with relish....

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Small of Stature, Great of Nature

The diminutive are spurned, scorned, defamed and relegated to the margins....

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Duchamp, Cy Twombly and outrageous family (Chenhung Chen)

If one wants to be an artist it’s because they need to be one. The desire must come from within. It’s not something I believe can be recommended to someone. Chenhung Chen...

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Loitered Lens: LTNT in the Studio

Where formerly fantastic musicians suddenly clam up when faced with the prospect of ‘being recorded’, not so with LTNT...

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Don’t give me your lesbian orphan propaganda! (Appropriate Behaviour)

Appropriate Behaviour is indication of an exceptionally strong new filmmaking talent....

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Bringing Brutal Deathgrind to a Bucolic Britain (Brujeria)

It is said that this unit of banditos is made up of Satanic drug lords who came together to make music on Brujerizmo - their own brand of brutal 'machete metal'....

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A Painter of the Mind (Agnes Martin)

Her artwork can sometimes say as little as it can possibly say whilst still existing. But what an enormous statement that is....

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A Horror-rockin Hallowee’n. Alice Cooper UK Dates

The Alice Cooper show returns to the UK for two special nights at Plymouth Pavilions (Oct 29) and Swindon Oasis (Oct 30) with blood, guts, gore and some of the greatest rock and roll music in...

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Sex, fireflies and audiotape: ‘Anima’ purrs (Francesca Belmonte)

The moon is apparently moving away from us by four centimetres every year, Francesca Belmonte may just have thrown a lasso and dragged it back towards us a fraction...

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The Blues Needs a National Presence

The UK blues world has some stupendous talent that should be playing both nationally and internationally...

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Shambolic youth and vigour (LTNT)

We’re recording. Carefree and silly, it's going be hard to get a serious question past them. LTNT Camden Rocks interview...

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Make Better Music 74 : Collaboration

The ability to listen, appreciate, evaluate and contribute towards a fellow-musician’s creativity is a high order skill and the rewards often completely justify the effort....

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Loitered Lens : Tav Falco at Oslo, Hackney

Lithe and lean, Tav Falco plays up to the calls, draws the crowd in deeper and deeper....

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Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures....

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Foot-stomping hip-swivelling rockabilly country-blues (Tav Falco)

This crowd love Falco and Falco loves them back. He poses and postures, treats the audience to some fancy tango moves, and writhes on his back as if possessed. Tav Falco live. ...

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Bursting the pink bubble of partisan fantasy

You do not actually believe that it is possible to vote away oligarchic rule and militarist/police state imperium… do you?...

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Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

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Loitered Lens : Sleaford Mods

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn bring it on....

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Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

Skindred, LTNT, Red House Glory, Outside the Coma, Beasts, The Dirty Youth - for each band there is a different tributary toward whatever end they see coming....

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Just Laibach and Think of Korea [Laibach]

Laibach’s Liberation Day Tour will coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Korean peninsula’s liberation from Japanese colonization and subsequent division into two enemy states...

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Smell the air and rub the sky

For most of us in the cities and towns the weather is just something that happens to us, something inconvenient, an impediment. Perhaps we should pay it more attention. ...

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