Dorian Lynskey's recent book The Ministry of Truth looks at the culture and context of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ahead of a talk about the book this coming Tuesday at Waterstones, Covent Garden, he picks out ten of the best examples of pop songs adhering to that nebulous genre, 'George Orwave'
Dorian Lynskey's recent book The Ministry of Truth looks at the culture and context of George Orwell's classic dystopian novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ahead of a talk about the book this coming Tuesday at Waterstones, Covent Garden, he picks out ten of the best examples of pop songs adhering to that nebulous genre, 'George Orwave'
Thanks to our friends Dorian Lynskey and Mixmag Brazil for this excellent James Murphy interview, in this the first of our features on the best of 2010 at the half-way mark... Live picture by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net
Thanks to our friends Dorian Lynskey and Mixmag Brazil for this excellent James Murphy interview, in this the first of our features on the best of 2010 at the half-way mark... Live picture by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net
As she releases a new deluxe edition of Like A Ribbon, one of the year's finest albums, boundary-pushing East London rapper, producer and poet John Glacier speaks to Claire Biddles about childhood poems on the failure of humanity, the enduring influence of Hackney, disability, self-advocacy, grime and more
Keeley Forsyth’s debut album is an intimate document chronicling harrowing times. But, as she tells Derek Robertson, such darkness lies deep within us all, serving less as artistic inspiration and more as defining our shared humanity
On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that serve as guides to an intimidating post-Velvets discography
It cost the band their drummer, the support of the UK press and their major-label deal... yet twenty years after the peak of Britpop, Infernal Love looks like a lost classic of mid-90s rock, says Kiran Acharya