John Eden meets Simon Reynolds by the zine rack at Compendium

ReynoldsRetro Completely unexpurgated* interviews conducted by Simon Reynolds for his Guardian piece on zines.. Featuring (in order of appearance) ME (Woofah and my long distinguished history of zine-nerdery) , ELODIE AMANDINE ROY (Applejack), JON DALE (Astronauts), MIKE MCGONIGAL (Yeti/Chemical Imbalance), JOLY MCFIE (Better Badges) *i.e. includes my own typos and half finished sentences because I …

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uncarved.org reader features on BBC Radio 4 “Today Programme”

Stewart Home’s comments below have lead me to discover he has a new blog here: http://www.stewarthomesociety.org/blog – check it out for the usual mayhem and bewilderment (especially in the comments boxes). It includes this entry about his recent appearance on BBC Radio 4’s flagship “Today Programme” discussing the role of the avant garde in the …

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Datacide issue 10 – now available from uncarved.org shop

More on Berlin later, but grab yourself a copy of the latest issue of Datacide magazine now, from the uncarved shop. 56 pages – biggest issue yet! £2.50. Contents: Neil Transpontine: A Loop Da Loop Era – towards an (anti-)history of Rave CF: Radical Intersections – The rise and repression of the free festival movement …

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Iain Sinclair – banned in Hackney

Hackney Council displaying their characteristic control-freakery and incompetence: “It seemed a diktat had come down from above that I was a non-person and should be barred from the library for the crime of writing an off-message piece on the Olympics. This essay, published in the London Review of Books, responded to aspects of the creation …

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Roots Music and the Politics of Production

Some of the (text) contents of Datacide issue 9 have been placed online, including the crucial: Howard Slater: LOTTA CONTINUA – Roots Music and the Politics of Production Also an article critiquing Muslimgauze’s politics, an archival 80s interview with John Balance of Coil, and a whole lot more – check it. Or buy the print …

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