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Nick Hasted

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Nick Hasted has been a film journalist since 1986. As well as The Arts Desk, he currently writes about film, music, books and comics for The Independent, Uncut, Jazzwise and Classic Rock. He has published three books: The Dark Story of Eminem (2002), You Really Got Me: The Story of The Kinks (2011), and Jack White: How He Built An Empire From The Blues (2016).

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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...

Mickalene Thomas, All About Love, Hayward Gallery review - a...

On walking into Mikalene Thomas’s exhibition at the...

Album: bdrmm - Microtonic

Microtonic comes into focus on its third track, “Infinity Peaking.” Album opener “Goit,” featuring a guest vocal by Working Men’s Club’s...

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Myra Hess was one of the most important figures in British cultural life in the mid-20th century: the pre-eminent...

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Sebastian Copeland’s images of the Arctic may look otherworldly – with their tilting cathedrals of ice, hypnotic light, and fractured seascapes...

Rats on Rafts, The Victoria review - crepuscular Dutch quint...

An album is one thing, a live show is another. A truism of course, but one which is inescapable during this London date by the Rotterdam-based...

Blu-ray: Drugstore Cowboy

Rehab people will tell you there are three stages to drug abuse: fun; fun with problems; problems. There’s also a fourth phase, where there aren't...

A Thousand Blows, Disney+ review - Peaky Blinders comes to R...

Steven Knight is beginning to resemble the British version of Taylor Sheridan. While Sheridan has been saturating our...

Fledermaus, Irish National Opera review - sex, please, we...

Let’s finally face the elephant in the room: the most popular Viennese operetta, packed with hit numbers, no longer works on the stage as a whole...