With news of a new reissue we revisit Abbas Ali’s piece on Public Enemy’s It Takes a Nation of Millions...
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With today’s news of the sad passing of Andrew Weatherall, we republish a piece by Abbas Ali from 2011, on...
When the Glastonbury festival began as a humble affair in the early 70s, it was riding a wave of peace,...
As music technology evolved beyond the moog synthesisers of the 70s to the early samplers and sequencers of the 80s,...
11th of August 1973 is widely considered to be the the day that marked the birth of hip-hop. To celebrate...
Since 9/11, today’s news agenda may be driven by the War On Terror, but prior to that, a large amount...
Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party came to power in 1979 at a time of great discontent, racial tensions and mass unemployment...
It’s impossible to mention music in the 80s without mentioning hip hop, and it’s impossible to mention 80s hip hop...
It’s an oft-repeated fact that New Orders’s ‘Blue Monday’ was the biggest selling 12 inch vinyl record of all time, and...
I could have chosen ‘Like A Virgin’, Madonna’s breakthrough 1983 hit, produced by drug-taking studio genius and 80s superproducer Nile...
‘The best thing about ‘Loaded’ was that it proved we were right’ Bobby Gillespie, 1990 It was 1991, and bands...
So, as part of our week of features about the 1980s, here are twenty five classic songs from the decade...
