joe muggs
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Joe writes regularly for FACT, The Wire and Mixmag, specialising in electronic music and the anything-but-grey areas where genres and media dissolve into one another.
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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.
It followed some...
Best of 2024: Books
Billie Holiday sings again, Olivia Laing tends to her garden, and Biran Klaas takes a chance: our reviewers discuss their favourite...
Albums of the Year 2024: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Wild...
Young eldritch junkie Nick Cave would have struggled to predict his maturity as a font of wry and sacred wisdom, or the fathomless loss he...
The Split: Barcelona, BBC One review - a soapy special with...
Maybe it was the timing, even though most of the action takes place in bright sunlight...
Spence, Perez, Richardson, Wigmore Hall review - a Shakespe...
“O stay and hear,” sings Twelfth Night’s jester Feste in his song “O mistress mine”, “your true love’s coming,/ That can sing both high...
Best of 2024: Comedy
Looking back over the past 12 months, it struck me how it has been the shows fashioned from personal stories that have stayed with me. It wasn't...
Best of 2024: TV
They say cinema is dying (you never know, they may be wrong), but you can’t help noticing the stampede of movie stars towards TV and streaming....
Best of 2024: Music Reissues Weekly
A reissue can be an aide-mémoire, a reminder that a record which has been off the radar for a while needs revisiting, that it deserves fresh...
