- SIMON REYNOLDS
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retrodance - *Random Access Memories *hovers at the perfect convergence point between * Retromania* and *Energy Flash*. Here's my *New York Times* piece on how Daft Punk...5 days ago
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- *FOOTNOTES #5* ** *CHAPTER 4 CONTORT YOURSELF: No Wave New York * *[chapter 9 in the US edition]* ** *Page 50* >A British invention The Sex Pistols’s...4 years ago
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Message sent, message received - *I don't think you trust in my self-righteous suicide* * *Insider accounts published in the British, French and Indian media have revealed that US officia...1 day ago
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Simply Not That Good - Found this lovely looking book on a recent Charity Shop patriol. I love the cover the style and the colours. Sadly the contents of the book are not very g...1 week ago
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Siberian Gold - *"For help was coming from an unexpected dimension. In 1961, the first oilfield had been discovered in western Siberia, and by 1969 geologists - many worki...2 weeks ago
BLOGS AND SITES I LIKE
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Hear Daughn Gibson's 'You Don't Fade,' Trip-Hop Americana Style - Honky-tonk crooner and sample-happy strangeoid Daughn Gibson will release his first album for Sub Pop on July 9, and *Me Moan* is shaping up to be a powe...39 minutes ago
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Placebo Announce New Album - Loud Like Love set to be released in September, with European tour beginning in November43 minutes ago
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Premiere: stream Merky Ace’s storming new mixtape All or Nothing in full - Merky Ace, from London collective Family Tree, has been bubbling up for a while now. On May 27 he’ll drop All or Nothing, one of two mixtapes slated for re...1 hour ago
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Panagiotis tomaras - Created page with "Panagiotis Tomaras is a multimedia artist making abstract and montage films, experimental photography, light installations and spatial...1 hour ago
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THE FEUDALISM OF THE PREMIER LEAGUE - In this season's Premier League the margin between 7th and 8th (12 points) was almost the same as the gap between 8th and the relegation zone (13 points)...2 hours ago
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New York City busting shareables - *Manhattan, always ahead of the curve. *If left unmolested, of course New Yorkers are gonna turn their homes into illegal squat hotels. It’s New York. Anyb...5 hours ago
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Denise Gallant / Synopsis Video (ca. 1981–1983) - Denise Gallant / Synopsis Video (ca. 1981–1983)7 hours ago
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Music Review: Daft Punk - Random Access Memories - Daft Punk Random Access Memories [Columbia; 2013] by Sean Delanty Rating: *“The first time I heard them, I saw the ‘Around the World’ video. I ha...8 hours ago
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Fenella Fielding reads Colette - [image: fenella1.jpg]The latest post at Strange Flowers reminded me of some work of mine that appeared earlier this month which I can finally mention. Fene...11 hours ago
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Holiday Camp - The very title of *Holiday Camp *gives you a good idea of why it's prime *Mounds and Circles *material. Directed by Ken Annakin, it 's a production of G...13 hours ago
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OBlog: Wheelwright Prize 2013 Winner - Gia Wolff, Brooklyn-based architect, wins $100,000 travel grant for her proposal *Floating City: The Community-Based Architecture of Parade Floats*.15 hours ago
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Case Studies: "Everything" - [image: Case Studies:] Whoever thought that you'd see a horse and a meadow on a Sacred Bones album cover? It seems like the connective tissue for Seattl...17 hours ago
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"For decades relegated to lone VHS copies buried in college libraries, Dan Graham’s dense DIY..." - “For decades relegated to lone VHS copies buried in college libraries, Dan Graham’s dense DIY documentary traces a history of rock‘n’roll in which Patti Sm...18 hours ago
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pitchfork: Read Mark Richardson’s Best New Music review of Daft... - pitchfork: Read Mark Richardson’s Best New Music review of Daft Punk’s fourth album, *Random Access Memories*. I reviewed the new Daft Punk record.19 hours ago
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‘Surfing Magazines’ by The Go-BetweensAnother song about being... - *‘Surfing Magazines’ by The Go-Betweens* Another song about being young long ago.20 hours ago
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Global Capital and the Nation State - robertreich: As global capital becomes ever more powerful, giant corporations are holding governments and citizens up for ransom — eliciting subsidies an...21 hours ago
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The Rotters' Club - Angus Fairhurst, *Gallery Connections*, sketch for presentation, c 1995 Some straggling thoughts on the New/Young British Art topic of earlier... The arti...1 day ago
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Nightclubs: from the Aristocracy of the Fabulous to the Decorative Dance Floor - 'Once upon a time New York nightclubs catered to the aristocracy of the fabulous, to those with the looks, the style, or the connections to gain admittance...1 day ago
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➤ Revealed! The crucial Bowie diary date: May 25 - ❚ FRANCIS WHATELY’S DOCUMENTARY FILM David Bowie, Five Years: The Making Of An Icon has a transmission date – next Saturday on BBC2 at 9.20pm and next week...2 days ago
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On Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages: unless you realize this is about the overtone series, you probably misread Rousseau's argument - ** *So, this post is really rough and sorely in need of editing, but I need to get it up and running for my Phil of Music course, which starts Monday. In s...2 days ago
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"Pick off your litter" & Mobile Termination Units (1977) - After the case of James Sprout (go here for more detail) the government realised that parents desired more control over their offspring, so, in 1977, laws ...3 days ago
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Composer Portraits: The Darmstadt Boys - Luciano Berio Pierre Boulez John Cage Hans Werner Henze Mauricio Kagel Gottfried Michael...3 days ago
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The National Automated Highway System That Almost Was - In 1991, Congress authorized $650 million to develop the technology that would make driverless cars a reality4 days ago
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Mirage Men film is here! - After eight long years the Mirage Men film is finally finished, and I’m thrilled to say that the initial response has been overwhelmingly positive. The f...5 days ago
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Collision-Detection Box Set (remix) - The inevitable remix of the article at Freq There’s buckets of finely congealed empathy here, beautifully presented. Front And Follow is an unusual, old-f...6 days ago
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Back soon - The painted wrd is down for maintenance and will return in June. All the best!6 days ago
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recent publications - Some writings that first appeared on this blog have been published recently. First, the latest print issue of Burning Ambulance comes out today with my ess...1 week ago
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MUTANT DANCE - A HTV Documentary that aired on 02/06/1997 documenting the UK based Mutant Dance Party Collective and Bristol Free Party Crew gearing up for a free party t...1 week ago
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Bureau Rock - I do find Coldplay a rather fascinating phenomenon. There's a visceral dislike of them prevalent among the cognescenti; they're viewed as the epitome of bl...1 week ago
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John Maus-flavoured Introduction to Robocop, Explanatory Music Video, Maus Book Reprint - So here's something a bit different. Last week I did a couple lectures in Brussels and Amsterdam in which I talked about John Maus and similar underground...1 week ago
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Fragments on Time: Found Poetry in My Dashboard - I have nearly 50 drafts in my blog’s dashboard — waiting, forgotten, abandoned. This week, I encouraged readers at the Daily Post, one of our blogs at Word...1 week ago
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Nick Drake - Bryter Layter Boxset Review - Nick Drake Bryter Layter Boxset (Commercial Marketing) *"I think that's one of the problems with Nick's legacy, if there is a problem. I get sent tapes...1 week ago
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I Feel Like A Wog: Part 5 - For Yukio - The Stranglers’ relationships with both the Finchley Boys and the Hell’s Angels would attenuate from 1978 onwards, as the band’s success saw them playing ...1 week ago
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Brian Eno updates • May 4, 2013 - IN THIS UPDATE: Eno/Bryan Ferry by Lester Bangs; Brian Eno's Lux; Music For Hospitals; Steve Reich; Edinburgh Festival; James Blake; Emmylou Harris; Seun K...2 weeks ago
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The Past is a Regional Dialect - Another dead blog post. This blog refuses to die. Should I just cut off life support? Should I let it all go? Who the fuck is even listening at this point?...2 weeks ago
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Top 10/Bottom 3: May 2013 - Top 10 What else? Boards of Canada, Tomorrow’s Harvest Make Noise Echophon Game of Thrones Parks and Recreation New Venture Bros! Portland Timbers A real ...2 weeks ago
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RIP Jeff Hanneman - fuck. fuck. fuck. kicking myself for never getting around to seeing Slayer live would almo...2 weeks ago
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Hyper-On Experience official facebook page / soundcloud - I was really excited to see today that Alex Banks of E-Z Rollers has set up an official HYPER-ON EXPERIENCE facebook page, which already has some great sto...2 weeks ago
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Affective privacy and surveillance - When experience has become data, privacy can only ever be a feeling2 weeks ago
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How the internet influences what we wear - I’m always fascinated with how the internet is impacting other creative industries beyond music. On Saturday I took my little sister to The Vogue Festiva...3 weeks ago
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'Spring Breakers' is Not as Ironic as You Think - Film.com - 'Spring Breakers' is Not as Ironic as You Think - Film.com: rogueish: Ridiculous that I wrote a post about *Spring Breakers* without mentioning Britney; ...4 weeks ago
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GendyTrouble - Contrary to popular belief, programming sound in environments/languages such as Supercollider is not just for boys and recent evidence shows how it can d...4 weeks ago
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New Beatles Grammar Compilation / November 2026 - The Beatles are to release the forth in their 'English Grammar best of the Beatles series', with a new compilation album entitled *The 'Do Not' Contraction...1 month ago
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ODDS AND SODS AND STILL ALIVE - I figure it might be a good idea at this point to say that I'm not shutting down this blog. I'm hoping to become a little more active again come May, but w...2 months ago
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blackfashion: Tina Turner photographed by Knoepfel &... - blackfashion: Tina Turner photographed by Knoepfel & Indlekofer for Vogue Germany April 2013 Hair: Jennifer Wagner Makeup: Luca Mannuc...2 months ago
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The Landscape of Power - Sylvia Crowe, P.I.L.A. The Architectural Press: London 1958 Printed and bound in Great Britain by STAPLES PRINTERS LIMITED at their Roches...2 months ago
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tweeting on a #sorry day - #staring at a beige wall without a window at dusk; #seeing your lover’s back as an expanse of desertous skin, without curves or ripples; #duneless woman...2 months ago
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Three events this week ... - 1. Wednesday, 13 March at Waterstone's Trafalgar Square: Capitalist Realism: What is it and how to fight it With Mark Fisher, Peter Fleming and Alex Niven....2 months ago
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A falling fourth or fifth - Bitterly cold this morning in Queens Wood but not too cold to hear the woman calling her dogs with a fluting falling call – ooh oooh – that reminded me of ...2 months ago
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How to. - A quick note on the text. To read sequentially just click "earlier posts" at the bottom of each page or work down the list of posts from Intro. The posts a...2 months ago
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Issue #144 (Feb. 6, 2013) - *Centennial Beach, Naperville IL* Photo by Joe Carducci ------------------------------ ------------------------------ *United States of Nigger...3 months ago
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On Swansea City and England - I wish there could be an English Swansea City - a club simultaneously rooted in its community and traditions, outside the control of plutocrats *and *consc...3 months ago
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scissor lock - churn (self released) - Let’s begin with that cover. Because it’s not so much a cover as a framing device. A freeze frame actually. Taken from the exuberant video to JB’s “Beauty...3 months ago
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Yacht Rock - Yacht. Ca. 1557; variant of yaught, earlier yeaghe (“light, fast-sailing ship”), from obsolete Dutch jaght(e) (“hunt”) (modern jacht), short for jaghts...4 months ago
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EP MANIA - Perhaps the main problem for poststep, the main reason it isn't recognised as the uncontrolled eruption of revolutionary musical modernism that it is, is ...4 months ago
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“You won’t be able to stop yourself, you might as well enjoy it”: eXistenZ and noncognitive labour - (Originally published in Film Quarterly) [image: image] “Can what is playing you make it to level 2?” asked Nick Land in his landmark 1994 on cyber-theo...4 months ago
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2012 in Music - *2K12 IN MUSIC* Yo, this blog post will be in two sections, Part I dealing with my own personal year-in-music, and the second a more critical look at some ...4 months ago
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Photography and Document, Film and Narrative - Allan Sekula and Noël Burch podcasts care of the Reina Sofia museum in Madrid.4 months ago
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Intro - In an interview in early 2012, doom-mongering Swiss Hedge Fund manager Marc Faber cast a jaundiced European eye back over the last thirty years and constr...5 months ago
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Get Free stuff and Free perfume sampels - Spending some time regarding free gifts on website is always pretty pleasurable. It’s just like browsing increasingly more to acquire maximum variety of ...5 months ago
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Babylon Reggae mix by me - Babylon Reggae Mix by Marc Dauncey on Mixcloud Here’s a new mix I did – a selection of Jamaican roots reggae juxtaposed against UK fast chat, dub and mor...6 months ago
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Tattoos - When people with ‘quality’ tattoos are asked to justify them they’ll say it’s their body and they mean something to them and they’re not obliged to expla...7 months ago
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Freeparty Photobooks - NO SYSTEM Vinca Petersen (Steidl) Vinca travelled around with various teknotypes in the mid-1990s. A lot of these snaps feel like holiday fotos and she...7 months ago
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Decadence and Dying Earth, Part 1.5 - I'm reading Clark Ashton Smith for the first time, and I'm doing so with no knowledge of the writer's personal life or work outside of *Zothique *and the t...1 year ago
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