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Rock’s Backpages Launches New eBooks Series

05/10/2011

Rock's Backpages, the world's largest online library of rock journalism, announces the launch of its new Backpages eBooks division, headed up by former MOJO editor Mat Snow. Backpages eBooks...

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad

21/09/2011

Creative Journey: How to Curate Abroad...

Stateless – I’m on Fire EP

31/08/2011

Symphonic electronica and beguiling voices – 'I'm on Fire' feeds the spirit. There really is a lot of range on this five-track EP. Hell, there's more range in each one of the...

The Deer Tracks- The Archer Trilogy Part 2

23/08/2011

When is Pop not pop? Swedish duo The Deer Tracks are an unusual proposition, blending hook-laden, high-gloss pop with glitchy folktronica and esoteric sonic constructions. Though crafting tunes that...

Gunfire in the studio: Shooting film, photons & 12-bores

06/08/2011

I’m often asked, ‘What are the best bits about being an artist?’ A glance in the mirror after my day in the studio typically reveals a tired face peering out from beneath a...

The Arts of Life They Changed Into the Arts of Death

05/08/2011

As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind's imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity… …while liberals have been sharing scary bedtime stories by the...

Dissecting Dyslexia: Linking reading to voice recognition

30/07/2011

Research shows dyslexia involves difficulty processing language sounds in dyslexic brains. When people recognize voices, part of what helps make voice recognition accurate is noticing how people...

JMW Turner Ancient Rome; Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus exhibited 1839 Oil paint on canvas support: 914 x 1219 mm frame: 1230 x 1530 x 140 mm painting Tate. Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856

‘Dear Curator’: Exhibition Do’s and Don’ts with Sara Raza

20/07/2011

Artists want to be curators & curators want to be artists....

Crystal Antlers – Two-Way Mirror

06/07/2011

Crystal Antlers find liberation in music's current chaos. Adaptation to the realities of the music market in 2011 is something of a Darwinian exercise. Freetards lurking in the comment feeds of...

Self-image is the beginning and the end of living [Henry ‘Fonzie’ Winkler]

30/06/2011

Known to many around the globe as The Fonz from the US TV Sitcom Happy Days, Henry Winkler has struggled with dyslexia his whole life and was recently in London supporting the First News education...

Cults – Cults

29/06/2011

Christ on a bike, this takes me back a bit. The inexplicable thing is, though, it takes me back to something I’ve never experienced. Weird, no? I’m not trying to instigate a protracted...

Godflesh, D.R.I., and Goatsnake – HMV Forum

27/06/2011

Three bands, over 100 years of combined musical history, one night. Godflesh, D.R.I. and Goatsnake deliver. "Who the fuck are Goatsnake?" Screams a pot bellied Swiss chemist at the...

Wolf People – Steeple

18/06/2011

Is originality everything? I only ask because, throughout contemporary music history, there is very little that has been created without some sort of precedent. This is not to say that the quality of...

Amon Tobin – Surge EP

13/06/2011

Amon Tobin simultaneously alienates and intrigues....

Somewhere Somehow We Repair – Body Studio

10/06/2011

Mary George's group exhibition in a fully functioning gym juxtaposes the static with the kinetic, the delicate with the strong, the physically aspirational with the spiritually contemplative. At...

SubMachena – Sta Luego Dub

07/06/2011

Dub maybe a niche concern but SubMachena give us enough to warrant a fresh look at the genre. Robin Taylor-Firth and Rawle Bruce may be better known as Olive (See You’re Not Alone) when they...

Ofelia Dorme – All Harm Ends Here

05/06/2011

Sumptuously restrained album by a little known Italian band that have enough originality to move an audience into sweet oblivion. It’s rare to hear an album as well produced as this. Everything...

Pleq – Ballet Mechanic

02/06/2011

Echoes, textures and the subtle hint of melody; the ambient music formula is rarely relevant. With 'Ballet Mechanic' Pleq wins against the odds. Contemporary ambient music has no place in a...

Latitude Festival – Update! New Acts and Events

31/05/2011

the welcoming daisy-adorned gates will open for the 6th edition of the magical and fantastical Latitude Festival....

Sublime Simplicity: Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku

28/05/2011

Miroslav Tichy & Shimabuku at the Wilkinson Gallery strips the world bare and celebrates the uncomplicated and beautiful. Another month, another First Thursday. Galleries on the surprisingly...

Watch the Pretty Birdy: Sage Vaughn

25/05/2011

Sage Vaughn’s press bio is a juxtaposition of culture and wildness, of knowing clichés and their subversion, bold phrases that beg repetition, and suggestions of a contemplative day trip...

Roger Waters Revives The Wall

20/05/2011

Roger Waters’ 2011 production of The Wall takes a classic of anomie and updates it with startling and necessary results. Roger Water’s transmutation of The Wall, a personal investigation...

“Crack makes me feel like Jesus ought to”

20/05/2011

Drugged under one Crack nation - The United States of Dixieland: Corporatism, empire, Jesus, and the death genes....

Sarah Jarosz – Follow Me Down

13/05/2011

Travelling through the past’s future: Sarah Jarosz cuts a timeless album of particular appeal. Singer-songwriter acoustic music is the bane of my existence. Plucked chords and soaring female...

Interstates and States of Grief

13/05/2011

On US Interstates, we meet the US empire coming towards us. In this evocative video, we meet confederate ghosts and demons of consumer emptiness. We travel down the highway, propelled by engines of...

Caretaker of the Curious: Leyland Kirby

12/05/2011

"I think everyone should take more risks constantly, not just musicians" James Leyland Kirby (latterly known as The Caretaker) is a mysterious figure in electronic music. Respected but...

Sir Cliff Richard girds himself for the ‘soulicious’ tour.

09/05/2011

London, 9th May 2011; The live tour and album concept conceived by television star and music producer David Gest, Sir Cliff Richard will duet with more than ten soul legends on a brand new album (and...

Austerlitz – Austerlitz

08/05/2011

How soon is too soon. Parisian indie rockers Austerlitz go for bronze. Austerlitz have rushed to release a record that with a couple of months worth of emphatic development would have been...

Among the Ciphers of a Declining Empire

29/04/2011

Among Ciphers, Barn Burners and Confidence Artists: A Comb-Over Treatment for Declining Empire. Like postmodernist architecture, in which the aesthetic criteria of a structure's exterior often...