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Sleaford Mods: ‘The UK is like a crazy golf course’
“A lot of these politicians, they’re not evil. They’re just very detached,” says Jason Williamson, singer and lyricist of the Sleaford Mods. “I’d like to say it’s not just bounteous privilege, but it is. People like Boris Johnson, Rishi...
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Depeche Mode on Death, Rebirth and Defying the Odds
Most Bands are still around, but only a few are still relevant and contemporary. Depeche Mode is one of them. In the beginning Eighties Hanover was a great space to listen to live music. In Klaus Ritgen's "Rotation" and the infamous...
It was always a good night to go to CBGB.
Fantastic Voyage
It's a very modern worldBut nobody's perfectIt's a moving worldBut that's no reasonTo shoot some of those missilesThink of us as fatherless scumIt won't be forgotten'Cause we'll never say anything nice againWill we?And the wrong words...
Orbital Link With Sleaford Mods On ‘Dirty Rat’
Orbital team up with Sleaford Mods on the new song ‘Dirty Rat.’ The seminal electronic duo emerged from the rave era, blending club tropes with different compositional ideas. The Hartnoll brothers reformed to huge acclaim, and their last...
Orbital Link With sleaford mods On ‘Dirty Rat’
Electronic duo Orbital have teamed up with Sleaford Mods for a new single called "Dirty Rat." It's the first song we get to hear from Orbital's forthcoming tenth album OpticalDelusion that's coming out early 2023, which follows the duo's...
Post, Punk, Pop and Postmodernism: The Trendsetting 80s
Spray Nation
Spray Nation shares unseen photos of New York's pioneering graffiti artists Women on Train, 1981. All photographs © Martha Cooper, from Spray Nation: 1980s NYC Graffiti Photographs by Martha Cooper, Edited by Roger Gastman © Prestel...
New York’s Fashion New Guard
Elena Velez, Willy Chavarria, and Theophilio’s Edvin Thompson – are three visionary designers shaping New York’s independent fashion landscape. Ahead of their respective SS23 shows during New York Fashion Week, they discuss their brands’...
Remembering Starman: Mick Rock’s legendary photographs of David Bowie as Ziggy
In 1972, David Bowie released his groundbreaking album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars. With it came Bowie's alter ego and fellow Londoner and photographer Mick Rock. Ziggy was a glitter-clad, mascara-eyed,...
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Forty Years Ago Today, Simple Minds Changed Everything with “New Gold Dream [81,82,83,84]”
Disc of brilliant things… This day in 1982, Simple Minds released their game-changing opus, “New Gold Dream [81, 82, 83 84].” Let’s review our thoughts as written several years ago when we spent half a year poring over the career of...
‘We nearly threw them out’: the photographs of Andy Warhol that sat in a cupboard for 50 years
William John Kennedy worked with the artist on a unique set of images. Now, his widow and other figures from Warhol’s ‘menagerie’ reflect on life at the Factory. The story of these photographs begins when my husband, William John Kennedy,...
Devo: “Kraftwerk from the waist up, Elvis Presley from the hips down” Gerard Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh on being bombarded by hippies at Knebworth in 1978, being told off by Neil Young, and their unreleased jam sessions with Bowie and...
The 80s, Musics Greatest Decade
The 1980s was when a fusillade of new genres emerged, and many are still with us today, such as hip-hop and house. Dylan Jones has mined the archives to select some of the most crucial tracks in...
Songs for Europe
What music did Bowie and Iggy listen to in 1970s Berlin? A new compilation, named after one of Bowie’s local haunts Cafe Exil, offers a speculative guide to the pair’s soundtrack favorites. Do your wurst ... Iggy Pop and David Bowie in...
Moonage Daydream review – a glorious, shapeshifting eulogy to David Bowie
What dreams may come … Moonage Daydream. Brett Morgen’s Moonage Daydream is a 140-minute shapeshifting epiphany-slash-freakout leading to the revelation that, yes, we’re lovers of David Bowie and that is that. It’s a glorious celebratory...
As Andy Warhol’s $195 Million ‘Marilyn’ Makes Auction History, We Look Back on the Artist’s 11 Priciest Works
Pop artist and film-maker Andy Warhol. Photo by Express Newspapers/Getty Images. All eyes were on the Christie’s New York salesroom on Monday as Andy Warhol’s Shot Sage Blue Marilyn (1964) sold for $195 million, the...