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Good to see Colin get the recognition he deserves:

"The elder Greenwood has always been Radiohead’s secret weapon..."
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The Oxfam bookshop on Glasgow’s Byres Road moved, recently, to a new location further down the hill – but I’m very pleased that they managed to take Alasdair Gray’s mural with them! I think he did this when on a break from painting the ceiling in Òran Mór …
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Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk. n.pr/3LsPthh
Nova Twins: Tiny Desk Concert
Meet Georgia South and Amy Love, the London rock duo known as the Nova Twins. These "massive pedal nerds" turn all the way up for Tiny Desk.
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Happy to see that Thom has entered his Bob Dylan era, channeling the spirit of quixotic line deliveries, vocalisations and generally mixing up the medicine on Radiohead's The Bends.
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Radiohead 11/5/25 “The Bends” at Movistar Arena in Madrid,Spain
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
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“The amplitude, the riot and hoot…of One Battle After Another make for cineplex joy. It is only once out of the theater that we may sense that this frantic diversion has left its central material essentially unconfronted.” —Jonathan Lethem
Frantic Realism | Jonathan Lethem
Paul Thomas Anderson fits a generation’s worth of cineplex joys into One Battle After Another, but the revolution refuses to get off the couch.
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KÖLN 75 looks fun. John Magaro (who is stacking up a pretty amazing filmography) as Keith Jarrett!
Köln 75 International trailer
YouTube video by ScreenFlanders
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I love it when my obsessions collide in unexpected ways! For example, I was delighted when I discovered that Stef Gardiner one half of the wonderfully irreverent late night 90s Channel 4 film review show, Vidz, also was Alasdair Gray's last assistant!

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"The Folies Bergère was a notorious pick-up joint where women were treated as commodities to be hired. It was something Manet also wanted us to notice. ...Brice turns the woman-bar-mirror triangulation on its head and recasts the females as sassy barroom Amazons"
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Instead of attacking the old masters, this exciting show has fun with them
Subservient women in Manet, Caravaggio and Degas fight back in Lisa Brice’s paintings
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Drama on 4: Samhain By Ben Lewis.

Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song, inspired by the myths and rituals surrounding the Pagan festival of Samhain.

Claire and her husband David are staying in a isolated old house on the remote Scottish island of Jura...

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BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Samhain
By Ben Lewis. Soulful drama infused with storytelling and song.
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Philip Pullman: “To see this Labour government be so pusillanimous in the face of our enemies — and Trump’s America is an enemy — is awful.”

But what makes him most angry is the “inescapable logic of corporatism”, which puts moneymaking above everything else.
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Nobody told me that in the 1992 adaptation of Wuthering Heights there’s a frame narrative in which Emily Brontë is played by SINEAD O’CONNOR.
Could she still be alive? The incredible disappearance of Licorice McKechnie

The Incredible String Band singer went missing 35 years ago. Now her ex-husband offers his theories on her vanishing
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Could she still be alive? The incredible disappearance of Licorice McKechnie
The Incredible String Band singer went missing 35 years ago. Now her ex-husband offers his theories on her vanishing
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A new exhibition attempts to bring to life the mysterious novelist through works in conversation with her books

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"Then you get Bob Dylan’s New Orleans Rag pounding the piano like it owes him money, rock & roll leaking from the seams of a folk suit. He was never a purist; he was a raccoon in the pantry of Americana, and he still is."
"Here, I don't have to quiet
Here, I don't have to be kind
Extraordinary and normal, all at the same time"

~ Florence + The Machine, Everybody Scream

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Florence + The Machine - Everybody Scream (Official Music Video)
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Good to see Jokerman podcast @jokermen.bsky.social being used as a defence against silly Dylan books.

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I always like @raypadgett.bsky.social's interviews with people who've played with Bob Dylan over the years, but his sit-down with Roger McGuinn is revelatory, even as someone who's read plenty about both of them.
www.flaggingdown.com/p/roger-mcgu...
Roger McGuinn Talks 50 Years of Rolling Thunder
Plus The Byrds, Tom Petty, Bobfest, and the rest of his time with Bob Dylan
www.flaggingdown.com