The artist’s compelling and predictive use of aphorisms has blurred the lines between political slogans, poetry and the language of advertising, offering a dark mirror for our meme-driven age. PERHAPS WE’VE ALL had it, the Barbara Kruger moment. Maybe it was...
Universal Music Canada came to remind us of one of the most groundbreaking and edgy records from the ’80s. A deluxe expanded and remastered edition of seminal 1982 debut album ‘Cold War Night Life’ from Canadian new wave pioneers Rational Youth. At the dawn of the...
The poetic Dublin post-punk band are back with a daring new album. In a field of their own … Fontaines DC (from left) Tom Coll, Conor Deegan, Carlos O’Connell, Conor Curley, Grian Chatten. Photograph: Ellius Grace Do bands have a “difficult second album” or...
Ping Pong mit den Rolling Stones „Ah, ein Konzert… Ach, die Stones… Okay, wir geh’n aber echt nur hin, wenn wir Pressekarten kriegen.“ – Als die Rolling Stones 1982 auf der Tour zum „Tattoo- You“ Album nach Hannover kommen, ist die Originalbesetzung von...
Few artists are more refreshingly direct than the Bristol and Bournemouth-based ‘no-waver’. ‘Deadpan yet biting’: Billy Nomates, AKA Tor Maries There is currently no shortage of post-punk acts with a line in confrontational Sprechgesang. Brighton band Squid’s is...
In the foreword to the book, the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler described Hui’s thinking as a “generous and open theoretical milieu for exploration of human experience in connection to the infosphere. IN HIS BOOK On the Existence of Digital Objects (2016),...
