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They Ask Me What The Use Is: Pop Conference 2017
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— 5 May 2017 Tom Comment

Last year’s Seattle Pop Conference, on Voice, was an epiphanic experience for me, reviving a part of me that had become burnt out since I stopped writing regularly about current music. Like most epiphanies it was almost traumatic – I staggered ar[…]

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