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Industrial Punk: Here’s a Finger, Now Form a Band!

Industrial Punk: Here’s a Finger, Now Form a Band!

For Throbbing Gristle's Genesis P-Orridge, punk's sonic harshness was welcome but it did not go far enough.

There’s Room in Joy Division’s Expansive Universe for Jon Savage’s ‘This Searing Light…’

There’s Room in Joy Division’s Expansive Universe for Jon Savage’s ‘This Searing Light…’

Can Jon Savage's literal book This Searing Light, The Sun and Everything Else close the metaphoric book on Joy Division once and for all?

10 Acts to Watch at Sziget Festival

10 Acts to Watch at Sziget Festival

With another grandiose edition of the legendary Sziget festival about to begin, we draw your attention to the acts you shouldn't miss this year, here or anywhere else globally.

John Supko and Bill Seaman: s_traits

John Supko and Bill Seaman: s_traits

This is chance over method: a real post-industrial display of art born out of an immediate flow of ideas, immortalised onto a disk, assembled by the very negation of art that is genuine calculus and roughly adjusted by man

I Am Kloot: Let It All In

‘Unknown Pleasures: Inside Joy Division’ Enters the Void but Survives the Plunge Valiantly

The Age We’re At: An Interview with Elbow

James: The Morning After The Night Before

Musical Genius & Its Discontents (ii): British-style