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The Best Song Ever Written: Setting Sun
Click or not: The Best Song Ever Written: Setting SunMusic, on the whole, is a tool. It’s been used for centuries to invoke trance-like states, to imbue minds with subliminal messaging, to control those same minds. It’s been a huge part of my life, but these days I see it more as a tool of evil rather than good. That’s not to say I… …
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Songs For The Apocalypse: If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be Next
Click or not: Songs For The Apocalypse: If You Tolerate This Then Your Children Will Be NextFor over twenty years it’s been a brilliant song, it was just never realised the Manic Street Preachers were predictive programmers as well as great musicians. The future teaches you to be alone The present to be afraid and cold So if I can shoot rabbits Then I can shoot fascists Bullets for your brain… …
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Songs for the Apocalypse: Hole In The Bucket
Click or not: Songs for the Apocalypse: Hole In The Bucket Michael Franti knew social injustice when he saw it, but being aware is so 90s… just substitute whatever crisis we’re facing at any given time and it’s easy to see why this song endures. …
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Songs for the Apocalypse: The Wake-Up Bomb
Click or not: Songs for the Apocalypse: The Wake-Up BombREM could well stand for resplendent en masse as they, like the rest of us, would “rather be anywhere, doing anything” as they drop a seriously tight (and sartorial) Wake-Up Bomb back in ’95. …
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PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d Expect
Click or not: PJ Harvey Covering Red Right Hand Is As Beautifully Fucked Up As You’d ExpectYou can always expect the unexpected from PJ Harvey, yet you can be assured that you’ll get something haunting, thought provoking, terrifying, uplifting, depressing, beautiful and genuinely raw thrown into the creative blender. To call this a ‘cover’ doesn’t really begin to justify the way she’s taken control of not only the narrative but the… …
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Friday Fugazi: No Music Just Banter
Click or not: Friday Fugazi: No Music Just BanterEven though there are known for their blistering live shows, part of the experience of a Fugazi gig was always the on-stage banter. Varying from anecdotes to admonishment, you were foolish to stage dive or yell out stupid shit. I’ve seen many a big man be taken down verbally or physically by Ian and Guy,… …
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The Messthetics: Serpent Tongue
Click or not: The Messthetics: Serpent TongueWhile Fugazi have never ‘officially’ broken up, their hiatus is taking on epicly permanent proportions. So it’s good to see their engine room of Brendan Canty (drums) and Joe Lally (bass) has formed a new band with guitarist Anthony Pirog called The Messthetics. Fully instrumental, the first taster Serpent Tongue lays down their typical solidity… …
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Party Legends: Ninja, Kanye And Drake Shoot Some Hoops
Click or not: Party Legends: Ninja, Kanye And Drake Shoot Some HoopsIf you haven’t come across VICE’s party legends series before, here’s a good place to start. Without giving too much away, Ninja from Die Antwoord tells us a story about his friendship with Kanye who unsurprisingly makes Ninja look like the normal one and then the resulting epic game of basketball that played out over at… …