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LIVE REPORT: The Peoples’ Bailout
Last week, Strike Debt - an initiative started by the Occupy movement - hosted a fundraiser/variety show in New York, a year on from the occupation of Times Square. Its mixture of performance, speech and music, says Andrew Flanagan, ranged in quality but helped draw attention to a pragmatic and brilliant project
News
LIVE REPORT: The Peoples’ Bailout
Last week, Strike Debt - an initiative started by the Occupy movement - hosted a fundraiser/variety show in New York, a year on from the occupation of Times Square. Its mixture of performance, speech and music, says Andrew Flanagan, ranged in quality but helped draw attention to a pragmatic and brilliant project
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From The Darkest Chasms: Neil Young’s On The Beach Revisited
Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and greatest moments. This feature was first published on 9 August 2014
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A Penury for Your Thoughts: The Romance & Myths vs the Reality of the Starving Artist
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