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Getting To The Point: Anthony Fantano’s Favourite Albums
Jan 13, 2021 · With over two million subscribers to his YouTube channel, Anthony Fantano has caused a revolution in music journalism. In this week's Baker's Dozen he talks Max Pilley through 13 favourite albums, from ODB to MIA, Laurie Anderson and LCD
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30 Years On: Remembering The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and …
Feb 10, 2010 · Admittedly, these are heights that would never be repeated; a second single apparently couldn’t be plucked from this because the band had no more songs that they could’ve put on the B-side (an issue reminiscent, in a curious parallel, of a certain New York band, also on Rough Trade, who could be said to have kick-started the decade that followed), second album Blind didn’t feature on ...
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Baker's Dozen Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more
“It’s Not Easy Listening”: Thirty Years Of Pure Fucking Mayhem
Apr 10, 2014 · Two years ago I went to Oslo with the express intent of interviewing Mayhem about the 25th anniversary of their landmark debut Deathcrush. My idea was to take them to the band’s old haunt, the location of Helvete Records – now a Vietnamese bagel shop called Vårt Daglige Brød (trans. Our Daily Bread). I wanted […]
Beyond The Iron Gates: How Nazi-Satanists Infiltrated the UK ...
Nov 27, 2018 · A member of Nazi organisation the O9A posing with a WWII-era German machinegun and an artwork by Richard Moult Read the introductory feature on why we’re investigating extreme politics and underground music here "Let us not be mis-understood: genuine Satanists are evil… They cause, and strive to cause, Chaos, disruption, revolution… they bring joy, ecstasy […]
Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Oct 31, 2024 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …
Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100
Mar 4, 2022 · Nosferatu faithfully suckled on antisemitism, but it did not introduce it into the vampire myth – that was Bram Stoker’s doing. His 1897 book Dracula,scholars believe, was partially based on the antisemitic 1894 novel Trilby, in which a Jewish villain seduces and abuses European girls.Stoker described Dracula himself as having an “aquiline” nose, pointed ears, and “bushy” eyebrows ...
25 Years On: Prince Of Darkness Revisited - The Quietus
Nov 28, 2012 · Released in 1987, Prince of Darkness is the second part of what director John Carpenter has dubbed his ‘Apocalypse Trilogy’, which begins with The Thing (1982) and ends with In the Mouth of Madness (1995). Though the three films are different stories and not directly connected, they all deal with a threat that could destroy humanity if allowed to go unchecked.