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Loitered Lens: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016

Colours and curios from the UK's premier folk event - Cambridge Folk Festival, photos....

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Progressive and Unifying Power: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016

Music for partying, reflection, loss, love and protest, CFF wins again....

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Saw it Coming. Futurism, Vorticism and the Prescience of H.G. Wells

On the 150th anniversary of his birth, H.G. Wells continues to inspire. ...

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Beyond the Big Four. Unheralded but Solid Thrash (Flotsam & Jestsam)

Will it float, or should we jettison it? Flotsam & Jetsam dish up the thrash....

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The Timeline of Being a Woman

Political activist Lisa Muggeridge chronicles the ways culture, politics and society combine to control women's lives....

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I Can’t Do that, Dave. Artificial Intelligence, Dada and the Ethics of Perception

Are humans worthy to create more powerful beings 'in our own image'? Essay....

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All That You Fear is Gone (Headspace)

Prog-metal supergroup Headspace ready a 73-minute opus for their eager public. Trebuchet gets stuck in....

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Psst, Keep this to yourself: How to Expose Massive Conspiracies

Equation shows that large-scale conspiracies would quickly reveal themselves. But maybe that's just What They Want You To Think! Or not. Perhaps. ...

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Cuddly Dictators and Visible Boredom: Lost in Karastan

Lost in Karastan is a slightly infuriating missed opportunity, albeit with some charm...

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When Society Starts to Eat Itself: Dystopia (Megadeth)

Lyrics decrying the state of today's society delivered with a backdrop of technically precise and relentless thrash, Mustaine and his boys prove that there is still life in the Megadeth machine. ...

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The Hills are Alive with Laibach European Dates (Spring 2015)

European dates for Laibach's Sound of Music tour...

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Sounds Unfair: The Plight of Britain’s Independent Music Venues

A quiet disaster has been happening in our town and city centres, only now are we doing something about it...

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The Other Dave: The Tory Leader We Could Have Had

The man Cameron beat to the Tory leadership proves how different things could’ve been...

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Art Resistance Journal Third Text Relaunches

Editor of seminal counter-institutional art journal Third Text announces relaunch....

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Rave Nostalgia in it’s Entire Spectrum (Colorhythm)

A nostalgic net cast wide to capture the beats, breaks and bombs of the rave era....

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Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends: The Black Heart, Camden

When Reeves Gabrels launches into a solo you never quite know what to expect. ...

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Whip Crack or Bad Craic? (The Bones)

a smart, catchy sixth album, but rock and roll kinksters The Bones lack the originality to stand out...

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

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

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Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

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...

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A Hypocrite’s Guide to the Internet

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

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Lauding Republicans (reluctantly). US Election Hyperbole and Hypocrisy

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

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Expanding Worlds : Across the Sheer Size of Africa

Like my wallet, I'm holding cultural currencies with bills from over twenty African nations. ...

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Secret Trade Courts: are the scales TTIPing?

Tobacco companies could get litigious if a country passes laws to help people quit smoking. Agrochemicals companies could throw the book at governments that block chemicals they consider dangerous....

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Entrenched imperial orders do not die pretty deaths

The angst, humiliations, and sundry degradations of working people that are inherent to capitalism are unbearable for the multitudes...

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Death in the Afternoon : Political Slaughter in Spain

Personal charisma, rockstar presentation and the common touch may indeed be a successful formula for political power....

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When citizens TURN. Documenting Disobedience

The kinds of people who engage in noncompliance are the same people who believe the government responds to their feedback....

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South Sudan : Towards Redemption, Towards Peace

They wanted peace, a chance to return to their homes....

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Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well

While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an "empty suit." Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate....

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An extortion and shakedown racket. Which you elected.

You accepted your economic betters' paltry bribes and transformed mass media consumer distraction into your mode of being...

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Mystical Moves, Dance and Freedom : Interview [Salah El Brogy]

There’s a thriving dance community in the UK that really helps you keep that fire in your belly...

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