Joe Kennedy

F***ing Legends, Mate: The Stone Roses At Heaton Park

Tens of thousands of you traipsed through the drizzle to Heaton Park for The Stone Roses reunion this past weekend. Joe Kennedy explains why this was more significant than a mere nostalgia exercise

Kicker Conspiracy: Football Beyond The Euros, Hornby & Banter

It's football-bloody-football all over the telly at the moment. But, argues Joe Kennedy, beyond the flag-waving the sport offers a form of popular modernism

JK Flesh

Posthuman

Vive La France! Lessons The UK Can Learn From Hollande’s Election Victory

Hollande's victory for the French Socialist Party in the weekend's Presidential Elections provoked outpourings of emotion and solidarity of the sort rarely seen in the UK, says Joe Kennedy. Photograph thanks to Valerio Berdini

Matt Elliott

The Broken Man

Bruce Springsteen

Wrecking Ball

Against The New Naive: ‘Innocence’, Branding, & Michel Houellebecq

Making reference to "grating" artist Robert Montgomery and the Western quest for washy naïveté, Joe Kennedy wonders if controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq might have the antidote

Prinzhorn Dance School

Clay Class

Big Society, Little Hope: False Folk Culture In 2011

From the broom-wielding legions of Clapham to Alex James' cheese and Mumford & Sons, Joe Kennedy examines the current vogue for nu-folk whimsy and its links to Big Society rhetoric

Unmasking Dishonest ‘Big Society’ Logic: Alex Niven & Mark Olden Reviewed

Two new volumes published through Zer0 Books, Alex Niven's Folk Opposition and Mark Olden's Murder In Notting Hill, both push for greater understanding of politics at ground level, and provide examples of what can occur if this does not happen, writes Joe Kennedy

Kate Bush

50 Words For Snow

The Whip

Wired Together

Death In Vegas

Trans-Love Energies

North Sea Radio Orchestra

I A Moon

BBC’s “Primetime Hauntology” The Shadow Line Reviewed

As the labyrinthine conspiracy thriller The Shadow Line comes to DVD, Joe Kennedy salutes a series that turns TV drama on its head and "reclaims the medium for oddness."

The Curiously Ignored Lyricism In Slint’s Spiderland

Three decades after the release of Spiderland, Joe Kennedy argues that those who waffle endlessly about post rock have made a mistake in ignoring "a lyrical blueprint which places Gothic imagery at the service of modernist ambiguity"