Revolution in the Wirral
Also this week: world-class music in schools, and making space for culture.
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The next vinyl crisis
Vinyl sales are booming – but manufacturing records uses toxic plastic and vast amounts of energy. Will the industry ever…
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The Pitchfork years
The announcement that the music website will be folded into GQ signals the end of an era in music criticism…
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Thom Yorke’s late style
For all its themes of cronyism and catastrophe, the Smile’s Wall of Eyes suggests that Yorke has found serenity in…
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The paradoxical moods of Joni Mitchell’s Court and Spark
Released 50 years ago, the singer’s commercial breakthrough is a masterwork of ambivalence.
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Richard Hawley Q&A: “It’s sickening what this government gets away with”
The songwriter and musician on Gretsch guitars, the benefits of failure, and hailing from a long line of NHS nurses.
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Music in a time of war
The Ukrainian pianist Sasha Grynyuk and the Russian violinist Yuri Zhislin on playing together during the conflict.
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Taylor Swift’s hollow empowerment narrative
The singer’s faux-feminist branding is so convincing journalists are doing her PR for her.
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