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Kraftwerk at the Masonic Temple in Detroit

Some musical acts who get long in the tooth sustain themselves through constant reinvention, like David Bowie. Others, like Iron Maiden, keep their old hits from sounding tired by pushing themselves to make

In Every City? Wire's Drill

When I was in high school, I had a friend who shrugged off the idea of Wire records after 154, because they "started doing techno or something." That's narrow

In praise of the Alesis SR-16

I was somewhat surprised recently to see that some people on the group-buying site Massdrop were attempting to get a group together for the Alesis SR-16 drum machine. At its regular street price,

Black metal campaign logos

This is great. Fast Co gets metal logo designer Christophe Szpajdel to redesign the logos of all the bazillion players in the 2016 campaign. The other interesting thing about this is that one

Heresie

I stumbled on this a while back when I was big on reading mp3 blogs. In the few years since I regularly trawled those sites for the mysterious and bizarre gems they posted,