Tag: Rock

Rock Around the Maghreb

By Charlie Bertsch
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Nayda!, the debut album from Bab L’Bluz, demonstrates the virtue of running towards trouble instead of away from it. (More…)

New angry Britain. IDLES at the Bedford Esquires, March 2017.

Nothing is New Anymore

By Charlie Bertsch
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Listening to IDLES’ forthcoming live LP, A Beautiful Thing – not to mention the albums that preceded it,  Joy as an Act of Resistance (2018) and Brutalism (2017) – is by turns exhilarating and exhausting. (More…)

Future Italian Past

By Basilio Korman
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E.V.A. , by Rome’s Giuda (Judas), sounds all-too-familiar. Not because it’s trite or unoriginal, because it isn’t. (More…)

Exploding German Identity Politics

By Charlie Bertsch
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The hysteria was predictable. Posing as both concentration camp inmates and their Nazi executioners, the video for Rammstein’s new song “Deutschland” was destined to infuriate one demographic, just as selecting a black actress, Ruby Commey, to personify Germania, was bound to piss off another. (More…)