Tag: Music
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The mixtape is dead. Long live the mixtape!
It all started with Lee Davies*, on our annual church coach trip to the seaside, sometime in the early 90s. “Here, have a listen to this”, he enthusiastically commanded, shoving a pair of scratchy foam Walkman headphones onto my ringleted ten-year-old head. Lee was two years older than me, friends with my cousin, and my…
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She-Bop: A history of women in rock and pop
It’s such a cliché to not like Mondays that I really wish I did like them. I’ve tried hard to flirt with Monday, to trick myself into pretending it’s actually Thursday, but to no avail. *gallic shrug* Mondays are bitty, frequently overwhelming, require the organisational zeal of a great military leader and never quite leave…