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The continuing slew of benefit concerts has succeeded in sending another message to anyone who might want to tangle with the U.S. of A.
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The continuing slew of benefit concerts has succeeded in sending another message to anyone who might want to tangle with the U.S. of A.: United We Stand, unless you’re talking about demographics.[…]

Erf. Got the Roots Manuva title wrong the first time
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Erf. Got the Roots Manuva title wrong the first time. Damn intro tracks. “Witness” is cool too but it sounds nothing like that.[…]

BritWar!
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BritWar![…]

Douglas Wolk
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Douglas Wolk has a kind of listening-log/instant-review thing here, and it’s very good.[…]

ROOTS MANUVA – “Join the Dots”
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ROOTS MANUVA – “Join the Dots”
The horns march fatalistically. He leads, striding and declaiming, sometimes whistling only to keep time.[…]

The Anti-Bling Kings
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The Anti-Bling Kings: Simon Reynolds on Cannibal Ox. Very good on the problem of the underground MC (“as knotted with riddles and imagistically overripe as a late-period Costello lyric” – yes!), then less good on explaining exactly […]

The Mix Project
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The Mix Project: Michelangelo Matos makes mixtapes and writes about the songs on them as he does so. I thought of doing something similar to this a little while ago but all my mixtapes are the same anyway.[…]

Why I Love House Music
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Why I Love House Music: the end for A Thousand Songs is surely finally in sight![…]

In case you’re interested…
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In case you’re interested…the LondonIndieUSA event raised – when corporate donations were included – around £1800 for the International Red Cross. Thanks very much to any readers who came along![…]

NIRVANA – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”/SONIC YOUTH – “100%”/SMASHING PUMPKINS – “Cherub Rock”
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NIRVANA – “Smells Like Teen Spirit”/SONIC YOUTH – “100%”/SMASHING PUMPKINS – “Cherub Rock”
Spiteful snarls and bitter distortion claw at curtains of shopping-mall gloss.
Butch Vig never got his du[…]

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