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Jeremy Deller on The Posters Came From The WallsSaturday, 28 November 2009
"Depeche Mode," says Jeremy Deller, "have always been seen as a bit naff in this country, at least in the media. They could never shake off the image of their earliest Top Of The Pops appearances, so no matter how musically exploratory they got, they tended to be seen as this jumped-up rather silly pop band. Read more... |
Birthdays On The Tube, 22-28 NovemberSaturday, 21 November 2009
An ongoing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. 23 November 1876: Manuel de Falla's El Amor Brujo filmed as part of Carlos Saura's classic film dance trilogy. {youtube width="400"}Ftd8tIdiYq4{/youtube} El Amor Brujo Carlos Saura Read more... |
Birthdays on the Tube, 15-21 NovemberSunday, 15 November 2009
A continuing series celebrating musicians' birthdays. |
Chap-Hop, Straight out of SurreyWednesday, 28 October 2009"Hip-hop has been a commercial proposition since the release of 'Rapper’s Delight' in 1979. That’s 30 years, a long time for any genre," writes Sasha Frere-Jones in this week's New Yorker. The genre, according to Frere-Jones, is on the way out. Not so for Chap-Hop, however, which has been going for about six days since the video below was put up on YouTube, featuring... Read more... |
Noughty Girls: Britney, Amy, Beyoncé, Kylie... and KaijaThursday, 17 September 2009
Last night I was thinking, as I often do, of Britney, Kylie, Beyoncé, and less of Shakira, mainly because her name doesn’t end in y or e. The reason that my thoughts turned to Britney et al (incidentally we are delighted to have britneyspearsfans @BritneySpears4u site following theartsdesk on Twitter) was a list published this Saturday in the Telegraph of the best 100 songs of the Noughties. Read more... |
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