January 1st, 2011 posted by Nicholas Murgatroyd
Sonic Youth’s gig at Manchester Academy sold out well before Christmas, so walking down a misty Oxford Rd to get to the academy building was to run a gauntlet of touts and mournful fans all desperately hoping for the miracle of a spare ticket. Inside, a packed crowd that ranged in age from teenagers to [...]
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July 19th, 2010 posted by Evan Jones
Amid the casualties of punk rock’s necessary and thrashing critique of popular culture and music in the mid-seventies was folk rock and psychedelic music, which had blended in so many angry young minds with the era’s MOR meanderings of British Prog. Folk became a bad word, associated with hippies and a bygone era of flared [...]
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March 23rd, 2009 posted by Susie Stubbs
It’s business as usual at the White House. The joyous uproar that greeted Barack Obama’s inauguration, the happy incredulity that accompanied America’s decision to install its first black president, is beginning to subside. Obama is busy dealing with an economy on its uppers; the colour of his skin is less an issue than his ability [...]
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