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Articles by subject: music

Roots (by Caspar Melville, July/August 2008 )
Caspar Melville unravels the rise and fall of dreadlocks
True Norwegian Black Metal by Peter Beste (by Keith Kahn-Harris, July/August 2008 )
In deepest Scandinavia, Keith Kahn-Harris discovers social democratic Satanism
Field of nightmares (by Andrew Mueller, May/June 2008 )
As festival season begins Andrew Mueller counts off the reasons to avoid them
Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture by Simon Reynolds (by Andrew Mueller, March/April 2008 )
Andrew Mueller travels back in time to Acid House
There's a Riot Going On by Peter Doggett (by Andrew Mueller, November/December 2007 )
Andrew Mueller takes on Sixties counter-culture
Natural truth (by Marybeth Hamilton, January/February 2007 )
Marybeth Hamilton celebrates the passion of a record collector
Supreme being (by Ashley Kahn, July/August 2006 )
Ashley Kahn on Coltrane's spiritual journey
Sandals and spooks (by Ken Hunt, July/August 2006 )
Why did the British secret services take such a keen interest in the activities of folk icon Ewan MacColl? Ken Hunt digs in the archives
Lost gods (by Andrew Mueller, May/June 2006 )
Andrew Mueller on the ghost of punk
Wonderful world (by Tony Russell, May/June 2006 )
Tony Russell reviews Thomas Brother's new book on Satchmo and New Orleans
French Farce (by Caspar Melville, January/February 2006 )
Hip hop didn’t spark the riots, says Caspar Melville; it merely predicted them
Natty Dread (by Lloyd Bradley, November/December 2005 )
Lloyd Bradley assesses the eternal influence of Jamaica’s finest
True Aim (by Andrew Mueller, September/October 2005 )
Andrew Mueller peruses the life of the other Elvis
The real thing (by Caspar Melville, May/June 2005 )
Caspar Melville on the oddness of rock snobbery
Hell is other iPods (by Caspar Melville, March/April 2005 )
Caspar Melville on the loneliness of the long-distance shuffler
From Juke Joints to Jamie Callum (by Caspar Melville, January/February 2005 )
Caspar Melville goes in search of the spirit of jazz
Beats, rhymes and grime (by Caspar Melville, November/December 2004 )
As record companies play safe by producing bland supermarket pop, Caspar Melville hopes an unlikely contender - British hip hop - will succeed in bringing music back to life
Writhing on Ecstasy (by Caspar Melville, July/August 2004 )
Acid House inspired even the most unlikely ravers to brave the dance floor. So why is it, ponders Caspar Melville, that white men still can’'t shimmy?
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