The Strange World Of...
Gavin Bryars
Opinion
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Spotify Wrapped & Apple Music Replay Vie To Be The "John Lewis Ad” Of Streaming
It is a hell of a conjuring trick. Spotify have made listening data, your listening data, not j...
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An Ungraspable Intelligence: Bird Song In The Time Of Collapse
In Daphne du Maurier’s The Birds, first published in 1952, our feathered friends stop singing a...
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Shadowplay: The Case For Regulating Online Ticket Touting
When a ticket tout complained to the Daily Record newspaper that the vast profit he was making...
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How Spotify Is Taking Crumbs From Quietus Artists’ Tables
The saloon doors burst open and the piano player stops dead. The frontiersmen look up from thei...
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Screen Wash: Are Music Docs Becoming Little More Than A PR Tool?
Peter Doherty is in full red military regalia and saluting. Union Jacks are draped everywhere, ...
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How NME Has Flushed Its Moral Compass Partnering With Ladbrokes
The NME has been brazenly courting brand money for decades; but as the power of the magazine br...
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Do You Have Plans For 4 Sept 2640? On Music Of Extreme Duration
Anthony Gormley's Another Place by Chris Howells Under the elegant beams of the Victorian roof...
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Green Issues: Music, Cannabis And You
Cannabis sativa from Vienna Dioscurides, c. 512 CE There is still much about the effects of ca...
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Are You Receiving? Killing Joke As Post Punk Pioneers
Jaz Coleman portrait courtesy of Killing Joke It’s undeniable that Simon Reynolds’ Rip It Up A...
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You Suffer: How A One Second-Long Song Represents The Age Of Anxiety
Napalm Death, The Mermaid pub, Birmingham, 1985 “We are healed of a suffering only by experien...
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