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Yearning for Pet Sounds

02/06/2016

Predating instant gratification by decades, Pet Sounds expresses a yearning which still makes for emotional listening. Essay...

Me Generation, not Re-Generation. (The Treatment, Islington Academy)

18/05/2016

The Treatment breathe some new life into UK rock at the Islington Academy...

In New York City with the Hepatitis Bathtub

18/05/2016

En route to NYC for a NOFX book signing, Scott Laudati takes the Red Sox and racism trail...

Shawn Klush’s Elvis, With the King’s Original Band Members (Watford Colosseum)

20/03/2016

Fronting an act featuring members of Elvis Presley's own band, Shawn Klush brings the King to the Colosseum...

Loitered Lens: Elle Exxe

06/03/2016

Soul sensation - Elle Exxe - Portland Square 2016 Photos ...

Short Skirts, Sharp Suits. Proud Galleries present the photography of Terry O’Neill

26/02/2016

Proud Galleries focus on iconic sixties photographer Terry O'Neill in their April exhibition of Rolling Stones photos...

David Bowie, Time Travel and a film called Interstellar

29/01/2016

Reminiscences of Bowie are Proustian moments of total recall, but they can also link generations. A story of memory and hope ...

Osiris is a Black Star (David Bowie and the Occult)

21/01/2016

Bowie, Elvis, Death & the Egyptian Underworld...

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now? (Part Two)

18/01/2016

Handling irony is like handling plutonium: you must be careful that the radiation doesn’t kill you, or at least rob you of the ability to make meanings and give force to ideas...

David Bowie, Cuts, and Why ‘Culture’ is becoming Another Planet

16/01/2016

Bowie's mere presence personified the power and relevance of a cultured society that appreciated and allowed him to emerge and for the rest of us to reach for those rewarding stars as well...

All Heroes Must Fall. Farewell to a Space Oddity (David Bowie)

12/01/2016

Bowie drew from the symbols and semiotics of myth, contemporising archetypes which have been crucial to humanity's concept of itself since time unrecorded....

The Movements of the Idiot: Are We All Ironic Now?

10/01/2016

Self-knowing idiocy. We either join in or shut up....

Mind of Blue. The Neuroscience of the Minor Key

06/01/2016

Study of jazz pianists finds 'happy' and 'sad' music evoke different neural patterns...

Sounds Unfair: The Plight of Britain’s Independent Music Venues

21/12/2015

A quiet disaster has been happening in our town and city centres, only now are we doing something about it...

All in the Pipes: Birds sing the same way we do

30/11/2015

The very same physical mechanisms are at play when a bird sings and a human speaks....

Not Painless. Stuart Semple’s ‘My Sonic Youth’ Addresses Male Suicide

28/11/2015

If you're male and under 45, suicide is your most likely cause of death. Stuart Semple's recent project My Sonic Youth addresses the issue....

Crank Up the Volume for Anxiety and Depression. Aggressive Music and Mental Health

25/10/2015

Aggressive music related to anxiety in men...

Reeves Gabrels, the Horn, by Carl Batson

Don’t Get Your Cock Out. Good Gig Etiquette (Reeves Gabrels)

20/10/2015

Suspiciously sticky floors and fingers at The Horn, St Albans...

David Sinclair Jazz Photography, Royal Albert Hall

30/09/2015

Retrospective exhibition of one of Europe’s most highly collected jazz and music photographers...

Alan Parsons ‘Sleeve Notes’ Talks at Abbey Road

14/09/2015

A fascinating insight into technical and personal experiences at Abbey Road Studios....

UK Culture is Becoming a Dead Parrot. What do you want? Cash?

31/08/2015

The Warwick report offers sensible guidelines for the future of UK Culture. But will anyone in power heed it?...

I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

25/08/2015

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

13/08/2015

This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through...

Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)

12/08/2015

Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National's collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it....

A Talent Show Without Talent. X Factor (Part two)

05/08/2015

The society that allowed us to flourish creatively whatever our background or income is in rapid decline. That cannot be right....

A Talent Show Without the Talent? X Factor Returns… Again

29/07/2015

Even after so many years of being served up candy floss, there are still so many people thinking, in all honesty, that it has something to do with musical talent, vocal prowess or even the nursing of...

Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

19/06/2015

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....

Just Laibach and Think of Korea [Laibach]

12/06/2015

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...