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60s Comics: A Brief History (Part 1)
The Sixties brought the wind of revolution into modern life. We now take this simple fact for granted. The decade…
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Tamikrest – Community In Common Ground
Following the path trodden out of the Saharan deserts by fellow Touareg musicians Tinariwen, come Tamikrest. The word ‘Tamikrest’ means ‘junction’, ‘alliance’…
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Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
The food! There’s just so much damn good food there. Last summer I gained 5 pounds just in one long…
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Flats: Kick It ‘Til It Breaks
With two blistering EPs and their eardrum shredding new single ‘Never Again’ behind them, Flats have established the most credible…
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Mick Farren: Front Line Shaman
Mick Farren has been many things in his time; author, activist, agent provocateur, anarchist... and that’s just getting warmed up…
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Steve Ignorant: Between Courses at the Last Supper
For Crass in general, and former frontman Steve Ignorant in particular, it’s been all go just recently. Aside from the…
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Parting Gifts – Strychnine Dandelion (LP, In The Red)
The debut album from Nashville duo Coco Hames and the prolific Greg Cartwright, augmented by friends the Ettes has its…
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Bo Ningen – Bo Ningen (album, Stolen)
By turns visceral and ambient, Bo Ningen’s [trans: ‘Stick Men’] eponymous debut represents a remarkably accomplished first outing for this…
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Thee Spivs – Taped Up (album, Damaged Goods)
Tearing in like a switchblade through the fecal velour of a cinema seat comes the debut album from this much…
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Or Glory: 21st Century Rockers by Horst A. Friedrichs
I’m always up for a challenge. Do anything, I will. Over-familiar photos from the 60s? Check. Films so obscure even…
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Tupac: A ‘Thug’ Afterlife
Tupac: Not more than hardly ... There's a whole mess of us stuck here; Elvis Presley, Jim Morrisson, Shergar, some…
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The Spork: A Practical Dining Tool
Raoul arrived a couple of hours later – he’d had some hassle with his old lady who was hassling him…
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