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The Death Ray Goes Underground (Comix, S Clay Wilson, Robert Crumb)

13/11/2015

Underground comix gave space to bold and innovative talents who thrived in the ‘anything goes’ atmosphere following the summer of love....

Move Both Directions at Once: Traversing the Greed-Deranged Earth of Neoliberal Capitalism

07/11/2015

Our trajectory must be halted; it is crucial that we become waylaid by the pull of a force larger than ourselves...

Doing the Cartoon Nasty: Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt (Part Two)

05/11/2015

Bazooka Joe is a one eyed boy who heads a secret society and is named after a powerful projectile weapon. He was given life by an ex-pornographer then wrapped in wax and sold to children....

A Viagra Republic will Rise. Or Not. Election Cycle Anomie

03/11/2015

Return of the carnival of false hope and manufactured fear. The US Election Cycle hots up. Or, more accurately, reheats a tired forula...

Bazooka Joe and the TJ Bible Belt

27/10/2015

By the roaring twenties a cinematic lens was steadily streaming increasingly deranged and lusty images out into the hinterlands of dullsville USA...

Can We Talk About JOHN? (DV8 Physical Theatre)

21/10/2015

Provocative, poignant and unashamedly full-frontal, DV8's John is a rough diamond of confrontational theatre...

You Know Things are Bad When Putin Looks Good.

10/10/2015

Irksome Geopolitical Strategy. Is there no end to the casuistry required to be a member in good standing of the Liberal Class?...

The Carnival of Consumerism and its Tawdry Trinkets

03/10/2015

How sensation replaces experience in the Late Capitalist Empire...

Guilt, loss and blame in smalltown America (Little Accidents)

25/09/2015

A bleak smalltown film, centred around a tragic mining accident...

TV at its most cynical. The Magician’s Apprentice (Doctor Who)

23/09/2015

Audience figures for Saturday night’s mess are the lowest ever for a Who series opener. You’d think they would have got the hint....

Delighted! On Bernie Sanders Congratulating Jeremy Corbyn

21/09/2015

Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn may use a similar rhetoric, but there it stops....

Not in it to Win it – Calling Out The Bernie Sanders Bluff

10/09/2015

The barriers that Sanders cannot overcome involve the manner in which the Democratic Party primary system is devised...

Documenting The Decline of Western Civilization (Penelope Spheeris)

02/09/2015

LA’s early hardcore punk, eighties hair metal and the gutter-punk scene, lovingly filmed by Penelope Spheeris...

UK Culture is Becoming a Dead Parrot. What do you want? Cash?

31/08/2015

The Warwick report offers sensible guidelines for the future of UK Culture. But will anyone in power heed it?...

I Dream of Wires: A history of modular synthesis (Film)

25/08/2015

Robert Fantinatto and Jason Amm's I Dream of Wires draws out the turning points in the history of modular synthesis and the music it continues to generate...

Fraudulent Four: It’s time to sue 20th Century Fox for Fantastic Four

24/08/2015

A hopeless mess without discernible form, sympathetic characters or clear narrative structure...

A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet (Part two)

22/08/2015

Drew Michael walks us through more examples of our own miserable double-think....

Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

13/08/2015

This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through...

A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet

09/08/2015

The way "our" people are humanized, and the “terrorist” demonized is classic media sleight of hand....

Powerlessness, Anxiety and the Political Tides: A Coping Strategy

07/08/2015

We build a structure of false consciousness… that we, often, mistake for our convictions, and tragically mistake this dismal dwelling for the whole of existence....

A Talent Show Without Talent. X Factor (Part two)

05/08/2015

The society that allowed us to flourish creatively whatever our background or income is in rapid decline. That cannot be right....

Cold Soup?! Get Stuffed! It’s Vertical Salad. Gazpacho

02/08/2015

Gazpacho is, potentially, a cornerstone of the vegetable juice purge diet, with the rare novelty of actually being delicious....

Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

30/07/2015

McCain is not a war hero. Heroes do not drop bombs on civilian targets from tens of thousands of feet...

A Talent Show Without the Talent? X Factor Returns… Again

29/07/2015

Even after so many years of being served up candy floss, there are still so many people thinking, in all honesty, that it has something to do with musical talent, vocal prowess or even the nursing of...

New Strats and Teles : Reconditioning Guitars for Sound Lounge

25/07/2015

The idea that a loved but untouched instrument can find a new and noble home is one that warms the hearts of many musicians. As it did with Sound Lounge / Fair Frets founder Keiron Marshall when he...

If I ran the economy…

24/07/2015

The fact that our market is distorted enough that millions of working families now need state help to meet basic living costs is the problem. Not the ‘scroungers’ ...