music

Content about music, and music industry struggles.

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Fragment of album cover for Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

Bryan Ferry in white suit and black bow tie in front of a lake

On Bryan Ferry: "Ferry Across The Tyne" - David Wise

A Revolt Against Plenty article on musician Bryan Ferry, "cool", class and Tyneside in the 1960/70s.

"a crime of morality: the case of the golden convolvulus"

Cuddon's Cosmopolitan Review #06 November 1965

Articles on the prosecution of Dave Cunliffe for the publication of "The Golden Convolvulus" - an anthology of erotica, Albert Meltzer ("Old Lag"…

black and white photo of an idyllic white nuclear family watching televison in the 1950s

Leisure is Working

Selected quotes from the media on leisure - including technology, The Beatles and the Worlds Fair. From Internationale Situationniste #9 (August…

The End of Music: Punk, New Wave, Reggae, a critique - David and Stuart Wise

A critical look at the UK's "rebel music" of the 1970s and its connections to situationist theory,…

Direct Action (SolFed) #23 2002 partial

Anarcho-syndicalist magazine, this issue focussed on music and culture.

Hackney, Hackney Picturehouse, cinema

Hackney Picturehouse strike songsheet

Scanned song and chant sheet used by striking workers at the Hackney Picturehouse cinema in East London in 2016.

Xray Spex advert showing an audience wearing 3d glasses, similar to the cover of Guy Debord's "Society of the Spectacle"

The Lingering Death Of Rock n' Roll

BM Blob on punk, reggae, rebel music and the music business...

Boyd Rice book cover

Just Say Non: Nazism, Narcissism and Boyd Rice - Strelnikov

Profile of fascist musician Boyd Rice and review of his book "Standing in Two Circles". Originally…

Michael Moynihan

Michael Moynihan's Seige Mentality – Strelnikov

An article on fascist musican and writer Michael Moynihan and his efforts to publicise the ideas of American Nazi James Mason through the…

Photo of the Sex Pistols from the magazine "Anarchy In The UK"

Anarchy In The UK - Sophie Richmond

Sophie Richmond works with the Sex Pistols, handling the organisation, administration and finance side of things. We asked to write an article…

Steps VS Anti-Fascist Action

Two pieces from AFA's music initiative Cable Street Beat from the early 2000s. Taken from the now-defunct AFA website at http://www.geocities.com…

New covid-denial single from Eric Clapton and Van Morrison

The new Eric Clapton/Van Morrison single "Stand and Deliver" wants to be a rebel anthem. Instead…