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Album: Poly Styrene, Generation Indigo (Future Noise Music)
Sunday 27 March 2011
As you read this, Poly Styrene is lying in a hospice with breast cancer. If that wasn't tragic enough, it happens to coincide with an upturn in the punk legend's creativity.
Venetian Snares, XOYO
Thursday 10 March 2011
In 1918, Edward Elgar underwent a highly dangerous operation for a 61-year old man in those times – the removal of an infected tonsil. Recovering consciousness after sedation, he asked for a paper and pencil, and composed the melody that would be the first theme for his Cello Concerto in E Minor, Op. 85.
Album: Serena-Maneesh, No 2: Abyss In B Minor (4AD)
Friday 19 March 2010
Ever since his school music teacher played his charges The Velvet Underground's "Heroin", Emil Nikolaisen, leader of Norwegian band Serena-Maneesh, has had an affinity for sonic extremity, pushed to the limit on this follow-up to their 2006 debut.
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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