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Does the world need a Mark E Smith font?
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Does the world need a Mark E Smith font? Apparently so, though judging from the Fall’s sleeves etc. it looks not very much like his depraved scrawl. Almost certainly of more lasting use is the excellent page of Fall News the same site maintains[…]

Tonight’s the night
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Tonight’s the night when They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) party on at the Octocapsule in Stoke Newington. A long performance of their epical masterpiece “Blok Rock” is promised, plus DJing, belly dancers, and dodgy punch. No de[…]

Planet Revolution
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Planet Revolution: Revolution is the “music magazine for the digital age”, and its site is a joke: not a good start. It’s not a joke because of poor design or navigability, certainly not – even on my pretty slow home machine i[…]

Can we forgive Wagner?
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Can we forgive Wagner? “It would be naive to feel that we must whitewash Wagner’s works in order to be able to enjoy them, for such an argument suggests that there is such a thing as an ideologically unproblematic work of art. On the othe[…]

motion review: Urawa
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motion review: Urawa. Noted here not for the review itself (looks to be typical motion content – weird music, good review), but the slight digression at its beginning regarding the sub-independent level of music production: formerly tapes, now […]

Tedious Admin Note
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The FTP is once again down, so currently I Hate Music and CAOTM can’t be updated. Apologies to Mike, Tanya and their readers. This also means that we can’t launch the Films Issue as planned: I’m in contact with the people who host f[…]

At least Tom managed to remove some of the pretentiousness
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At least Tom managed to remove some of the pretentiousness from the actual title: MACHINA/the machines of god.[…]

PCC’s Pre-Mixed Tapes
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PCC’s Pre-Mixed Tapes – better than most mixtape articles, not as good as the huge ever-growing article that rules from the centre of kempa.com. The Stalker one Kathleen likes is in fact rubbish, as it leaves off such notable stalky class[…]

Sing Along With Stephin
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Sing Along With Stephin: been after this one for a while – Stephin Merritt selects one ‘best’ recording from every year, 1900-1999. And no, he’s not arrogant enough to choose any of his own. Anyone who picks Julie London as th[…]

Reviews ‘n’ Rants
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Reviews ‘n’ Rants from Uncle Fester. Uncle Fester’s been around on the internet reviewing music for ages, and he doesn’t get enough respect from us young bucks (hollow laugh). Here are his thoughtful, straightforward reviews o[…]

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