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

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…

Review, Letters and Updates - Black Flag

Letters and updates from Black Flag #213 1998. Including race and anarchism, problems with Larry O'Hara, Class War after the 1997 split.

Cable Street Beat Review

An incomplete archive of Cable Street Beat Review, a publication produced by the musical arm of Anti Fascist Action around 1989. Taken from the…