SEE UPDATE BELOW Book publisher Faber and Faber is about to release “Lit Up Inside”, a collection of legendary Belfast artist Van […]
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Skinny Puppy sends invoice for music used as torture at Guantanamo Bay
Weird news of the week is that the Canadian Industrial rock group Skinny Puppy has sent an invoice to the US Department […]
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RIP: Pete Seeger
“It is better to have struggled and lost, than never to have struggled at all.” – Pete Seeger in the film “Seeing […]
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YMCA lyrics “not specific to gays”
UPDATE 2024: see end of article. Against the backdrop of Russia’s anti-gay laws, someone had the fun idea of asking lyricist and […]
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Tunisian rapper jailed for “insulting police”
Things are not easy in the countries that underwent the Arab spring. There is still the very real fear that things could […]
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Bruce Springsteen and re-writing
As I’ve also worked on movie scripts, I can say with some authority: writing is re-writing. I say this for two reasons. […]