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Arts & Culture, biography, Books, Reviews
BOOK REVIEW: JOHANNES BRAHMS
Jan Swafford’s Johannes Brahms: A Biography reviewed
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Editor's Pick, Fiction, podcast
Sam Steps On The Gas | Litro Lab Podcast
This week on Litro Lab podcast, we have an experimental piece with original music. On a time when many of us are stranded in one place – do you ever ...
Commute| Litro Lab Podcast
This week on Litro Lab, we access the anxious thoughts of a man while he walks through a rainy city. This is an experimental piece that blends music and words. ...
Orbed| Litro Lab Podcast
This week on Litro Lab, we invite you to close your eyes and immerse yourself in this oneiric flash fiction piece that tells the story of a little boy and ...
A Minute with Zack de la Rocha
There was an edge to it, a whiff of violence and unhinged possibility. In those days, the style of Leftist street protest was carnivalesque
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Book Review: We Were Strangers, an anthology of new stories inspired by Joy Division’s Unknown Pleasures, edited by Richard Hirst
All this misjudged levity is really an attempt to sublimate the subject matter of the record that inspired this collection: depression.
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Digital Subscription, Print Issues
Reading Words, Hearing Music
Focusing particularly on the words of Paul McCartney and John Lennnon, Frank Meola’s essay “Reading Words, Hearing Music” is about song lyrics and poetry and the difference between the two. ...
Pieces of Reality: Philip Corner at Café Oto in London
Joanna Pocock speaks to iconic US composer and polymath Phillip Corner as he plays at Hackney’s Café Oto.
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On Neurology and Grief: All About Melissa
My second novel, Melissa (Salt, late 2015), is – like a lot of my writing – all about music and neurology.
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Conjuring a Sense of Place: Interview with Calexico’s John Convertino
Melbourne writer Venita Munir interviews Calexico co-founder and drummer John Convertino.
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This Is the Sea
I dropped the needle of the old vinyl edition of This Is The Sea somewhere towards the end of side two.
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IDENTITY, MUSIC AND BEING A WRITER
‘(There is) ultimately only one conflict which constantly reappears under a different guise … to reconcile life with work in the purest sense.’
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On Nostalgia: The Music of Christmas Past and Present
Dr. James Holden considers the irresistable pull of Christmas’s sleigh bell-punctuated nostalgia.
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Book Review: The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll in Ten Songs by Greil Marcus
A fascinating series of essays bringing together singers, songwriters, bands, performers, A&R men, producers and audiences into the whirling gumbo of rock ‘n’ roll.
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Books in Review: Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
A look back at how Boris Vian makes words dance in this jazz age classic.
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Words & Music: Joshua Idehen of Benin City
“The first ‘song’ I ever wrote was ‘Baby.’ Inverted commas because a) everyone else does, the fools, and b) it’s got a verse, a chorus, and a second verse and ...
Boston Tattoo
As part of our current Music theme, Marie Gethins recalls the concert that changed her summer.
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Words of Silk
“More, give us more, we’ll never be satisfied, never stop. We scream and beg, order and demand, plead and grovel over a simple thing, not all too different from you ...
The Jigs and the Reels
“To the naked eye we were just four fellas sitting around a table, but the naked eye can play tricks. We were magicking ourselves out of this town through the ...
The B is for the Blues
“If I was to produce blues music from this wet-behind-the-ears kid, I’d have to produce the blues. No regrets? Blues is the sound of regret, the song of loss. If ...