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To Pimp a Butterfly: A Ten Year Retrospective.
Ten years ago Kendrick Lamar released To Pimp a Butterfly , his third studio album. Receiving almost universal critical acclaim, it has...

cian carrick
Mar 134 min read


Britpop and the death of subculture
To many, the 1990s are remembered as a period of vibrant optimism in British culture. The cringe-inducingly labelled ‘Cool Brittania’ era...

cian carrick
Feb 114 min read


Fontaines DC and retro-futurist confusion
While the year in music that was 2024 will widely be remembered for Brat Summer, the rap beef of the century and the humanity’s overnight...

cian carrick
Jan 234 min read


The Royal Family and the Collision of Mythologies
On Sunday, in the social media frenzy of anticipation surrounding Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's interview with Oprah Winfrey, former...

cian carrick
Mar 9, 20214 min read


The Northern Irish Troubles and the Fallacy of Protest Music
"What's this I see over here?" Bono drawls in his strange, Mid-Atlantic accent in San Francisco, 1987. "I see two letters: SF and U2", he...

cian carrick
Feb 28, 20214 min read


The Labour party and the UK Hip hop scene
"The Labour leader selects a Northern dance classic and a football anthem for desert island discs in a list that could unite both wings...

cian carrick
Feb 19, 20215 min read


"Friends" as a work of Bourgeois mythology
2021 and we are still talking about it. You could pluck out an obscure reference from any episode and throw it at someone born the year...

cian carrick
Feb 17, 20214 min read
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