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Larry Ryan

@larry_ryan

Larry Ryan is Deputy Editor of The Independent Magazine. He has previously worked on the Home News desk and the website of The Independent and he writes the "Caught in the Net" music column for the paper's arts magazine, Radar.

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to keep drinks cool; Jon Walter's

News & Advice

The Saturday Miscellany: How to hitch-hike; post festival blues;

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to find inner peace; Matt Haig's

In the window after a nice wedding, some surrounding unmarried couples are going to be feeling the twinge; they've dropped back into the pocket
Marriage

Wedding collateral damage: The domino effect that fuels the

Tech

The Saturday Miscellany: How to get wax off a tablecloth; digital

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to make the right decision; freeze

Tech

The Saturday Miscellany: How to be 'internet famous'; shrinking human

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to start a record label; Kate Bush;

Linda tries out her ballerina moves during a Sleek Technique workout
Healthy Living

Fitness: Sleek Technique classes; ageing cyclists; Adidas Samba

Healthy Living

Fitness: Vivo Barefoot running; The Girls' Bicycle Handbook; Otto

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to get rich slow; Martin Baker's

Healthy Living

Fitness: Piloxing; smug cyclists; Eastpak Ekspres; the 15-minute rule

Healthy Living

Fitness: An aerial workout at Flying Fantastic; bicycle mud-guards;

Healthy Living

Fitness: An aerial workout at Flying Fantastic; bicycle mud-guards;

Windswept: Dublin's welcoming port
UK

Travel special 2014: Hit the pause button on the rail'n'sail route

Healthy Living

Fitness: Arm wrestling; Nike 13-14 FA Cup Mango Incyte Ball; cycling's

American graffiti: Five Pointz building, in Queens, New York
Reviews

Dissident Gardens, By Jonathan Lethem: Book review - insightful look

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to do the cryptic crossword; football

Features

The Saturday Miscellany: How to do the cryptic crossword; football

To cap it all: Damon Albarn
Features

Damon Albarn's solo debut is a bit of a tease

Reviews

Quack This Way: David Foster Wallace & Bryan A Garner Talk Language

Karl Morgan teaching Movement Warriors class at the BalletBoyz studio
Healthy Living

Fitness: BalletBoyz's Movement Warriors classes; Christmas gift ride;

Metronomy's new record, Love Letters, is released in March next year
Features

Caught in the Net: This is the dawning of the app of Aquarius

East India Youth has a debut LP on the way
Features

Caught in the Net: Strife lessons from electro's young men

Bryce Dessner has been carving out another branch to his career
Features

Caught in the Net: An international man of classical mastery

Bryce Dessner (centre) and the Kronos Quartet
Features

Album stream: Bryce Dessner and Kronos Quartet - Aheym

Boogie wonderland: A Dance Dance Party Party London session in full swing
Healthy Living

Fitness: Dance Dance Party Party; winter cycling tips; gym rules;

Bryce Dessner has been carving out another branch to his career
Features

Caught in the Net: An international man of classical mastery

Bryce Dessner (centre) and the Kronos Quartet
Features

Album stream: Bryce Dessner and Kronos Quartet - Aheym

Boogie wonderland: A Dance Dance Party Party London session in full swing
Healthy Living

Fitness: Dance Dance Party Party; winter cycling tips; gym rules;

M.I.A's new album is out in November
Features

Caught in the Net: MIA gears up for a return to action

Features

Caught in the Net: MIA gears up for a return to action

M.I.A's new album is out in November
Brooklyn post-punk band Parquet Courts have recorded a new five track EP
Features

Caught in the Net: The post-punks it's OK to laugh at

Two paddleboarders venture down the Thames for an alternative workout
Healthy Living

Fitness: Stand-up Paddleboarding; ruinously expensive cycling kit;

The debut single from new London band Telegram is a great blast of scuzzy, droney rock
Features

Caught in the Net: Big hair, big sound... big future

Tech

The Saturday Miscellany: 'Auto-Hope'n'Change'; chuggers; how to get

Tech

The Saturday Miscellany: 'Auto-Hope'n'Change'; chuggers; how to get

DIY exercise: an Instructor Live user takes a class from home with online guidance
Healthy Living

World wide workout: Transatlantic workouts; Alpine Challenge; Adidas

All over now: Thurston Moore (right) and Kim Gordon (left)
Features

Sonic Youth: Breaking up is hard to do

Kit Grill released his EP Expres Primary Colours
Features

Caught in the Net: A first album from a minimalist master

Features

The Saturday miscellany: Wedding Photoshop; how to dump someone; can

Graffiti to promote Arcade Fire's new single "Reflektor"
Features

Caught in the Net: Arcade's epic single is a two-video affair

Features

Caught in the Net: Phoenix, Sunn O and Karen O

Healthy Living

Weekend workout: Join the club... Playboy Bunny Bootcamp

Cameron Mesirow of Glasser performs during Day 2 of the Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival
Features

Caught in the net: Glasser loves to share her pared-down beats

Morning Glory's events are designed to be fun, inclusive and safe and last for a rave-like four hours, beginning at 6.30am
Healthy Living

Weekend workout: Join the club... Morning raves

Alice Jones on holiday with her parents: 'I have inherited my father's eclectic taste and capacity to listen to eight musical styles in as many minutes'
Features

The sound of summer: Independent writers remember their backseat tunes

Features

Caught in the net: A new album from experimental duo Body/Head

Features

Caught in the net: A new album from experimental duo Body/Head

Drake continues to tease ahead of the release of his new album
Features

Caught in the net: A hint of what's to come from Drake

Celebrated Syrian musician Omar Souleyman has dropped the title track from his new album
Reviews

Caught in the net: Reid all about it with London Grammar

Sarah Neufeld, probably best known here for her work with Arcade Fire
Reviews

Caught in the net: Tranquil tunes from joking Jeremiah

Love’s labour’s lost: Richard Curtis; Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in ‘Love Actually’
Features

Goodbye, actually? Richard Curtis, has announced that his next film

Love’s labour’s lost: Richard Curtis; Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in ‘Love Actually’
Features

Goodbye, actually? Richard Curtis, has announced that his next film

Richard Curtis initially made his name co-writing television comedies
Comment

Don't announce your retirement, Richard Curtis - it's far better to

Colette wants to release her crowd-funded third album through her own label Candy Talk
Reviews

Caught in the net: The man of the forest engraves his sound

Hope Sandoval has co-written Mazzy Star's first new album in 17 years
Reviews

Caught in the net: Fresh dose of Star quality

Dripping disdain: Jeremy Paxman is still authoritative despite Newsnight's dreadful recent spell
Features

The Saturday Miscellany: John Humphrys vs Jeremy Paxman; Kim

Julia Holter is etching out her own unique brand of experimental chamber pop
Reviews

Caught in the net: Marvellous Archie Marshall aims for the stars

Pharrell Williams has already featured on the two big hits of the summer
Reviews

Caught in the net: Hit-machine Pharrell Williams keeps them coming

'Greek Monsters’ installation by Beetroot at Belgrade Design Week
Features

Belgrade Design Week: New ideas ripple by the Danube

No Age have unleashed a single of heavy percussion, buzzing guitar lines and shouted vocals
Reviews

Caught in the net: No Age make noise – without a video

Features

Caught in the net: Sparkling single says that Beck is back

Joey Bada$$: A voice to listen out for
Features

Caught in the net: New mixtape from a voice of the future

Julia Holter returns in August with her third album in three years
Features

Caught in the net: A high-pitched hometown homage

Features

Caught in the net: A high-pitched hometown homage

Julia Holter returns in August with her third album in three years
Features

Caught in the net: Take a chance on a hot young Chicagoan

Kelis has recently signed to producer Dave Sitek's label
Features

Caught in the Net: New moves from art-rock's top brass

Features

Caught in the Net: Change of tune is music to my ears

Americas

Cameos 'Diamond' Joe Biden is the latest to post a selfie

Americas

Cameos 'Diamond' Joe Biden is the latest to post a selfie

Back in 2010, Janelle Monáe went big with the futuristic pop, R&B, funk and much else
Features

Caught in the net: Sleek sounds from the Electric ladies

Caroline Shaw won this year's Pulitzer Prize for musical composition
Features

Caught in the net: Shaw's Pulitzer pearl takes the breath away

Berlin-based (naturally) UK producer Gold Panda
Features

Caught in the net: Gold Panda take a shine to Brazil

Deerhunter have returned with their first album since 2010
Features

Caught in the net: Deerhunter go for a new unhinged sound

Cedric Bixler-Zavala of At The Drive-In performs on stage at Splendour In The Grass
Features

Caught in the net: Second time around for At the Drive-In

A fans' fund got four-piece Teen back in the studio
Features

Caught in the net: Fans' fund gets Teen back in the studio

MIA made an appearance of this week at Paris Fashion Week
Features

Caught in the net: Return to action for MIA, after a fashion

Karen O, of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Features

Caught in the net: Totally wicked track with lots of bite

Features

Caught in the net: Phoenix goes for broke with Bankrupt!

Oscar Winner Halle Berry Winner Accepts The Best Actress Academy Award For Her Performance In The Film 'Monster's Ball,' While Actor Russell Crowe Applauds Her During The 74Th Annual Academy Awards March 24, 2002 At The Kodak Theater In Hollywood, Ca.
Comment

As a recovering awards show addict, I must warn you: don't watch the

Caught in the Net is driven crazy as Beck takes on Bowie
Features

Caught in the Net: Driven crazy as Beck takes on Bowie

Padlocks adorn the Pont des Arts in Paris
Features

Valentine's Day: just don't say it with padlocks

Bryce Dessner (pictured) is best known as the guitarist with The National, but he has long been cultivating himself in other directions too
Features

Caught in the Net: Clogs show they've got plenty of sole

The Knife have been teasing the world with details of their forthcoming album
Features

Caught in the Net: Swede dreams are made of this

Sonic Youth man Thurston Moore's latest project Chelsea Light Moving has been slowly gestating in the last year
Features

Caught in the Net: Sonic Youth main man Thurston Moore moves to

Features

Caught in the Net: Judgement time for the men of Peace

The Knife have been teasing the world with details of their forthcoming album
Features

Caught in the Net: Swede dreams are made of this

Sonic Youth man Thurston Moore's latest project Chelsea Light Moving has been slowly gestating in the last year
Features

Caught in the Net: Sonic Youth main man Thurston Moore moves to

Features

Caught in the Net: Judgement time for the men of Peace

Pulp played a reunion homecoming show in Sheffield – and as a parting shot left a Christmas card to all the attendees which contained a code to download a gift from the band’s website on Christmas day
Features

Caught in the Net: Jarvis Cocker and co's cockle-warming gift

Features

The Word On: Sinkane Mars

Features

Caught in the Net: Fans record Beck's album for him

News

Caught in the Net: Sparks fly early from Foals' new fire

Robyn
News

Caught in the Net: Get ready to hear Girls aloud

Features

Caught in the Net: Gooners sales are not Alexis Taylor's goal

Features

Caught in the Net: Solange stays true to her own calling

Features

Caught in the Net: Yo La Tengo refuse to fade away

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