Opinions & Editorials
Record store day, held on April 16th, is supposed to be a celebration of music and the culture that surrounds it, but for Andrew Liles it's more like a sign of the times. His contribution to the celebration, a 7" picture disc titled As if Punk Rock Never Happened, originally featured a humorously edited version of Prince Charles and Princess Diana's official wedding photo. Pressing plants are refusing to print the image, however, and it will ship in a significantly censored form.
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- Written by: Antony Hegarty
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Hi all, i spent last night writing letters to my government representatives asking them to fight hard for success at the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit. I asked them in my letters to insist upon the reduction of carbon emissions level to well below 1990 levels within ten years. Anything less than that will not achieve our goal of limited global rise in temperature to 2 degrees celcius.
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At first glance, Diamanda Galás' latest album reads like a collection of love songs. And it plays like one too. What's that you say? Diamanda has gone soft? The "black rose of the avant garde" is now a sentimentalist? She's become an imitation of herself? Hell no! In fact, she has become more malicious, dangerous, and that heart of hers is very cold. But I guarantee you that mainstream music critics, who have redefined laziness in their 21st century quick-and-cheap writing standards, will jump to these conclusions. But with Guilty Guilty Guilty, nothing is what it seems. In fact, it's all there in front of you. All you have to do is look and, more importantly, listen. What we have here is nothing less than Diamanda's best solo-voice and piano record in a decade.
- Written by: Garth MacNeil
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- Written by: Jonathan Dean
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