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joe muggs

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Joe writes regularly for FACT, The Wire and Mixmag, specialising in electronic music and the anything-but-grey areas where genres and media dissolve into one another.

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It all started on 09/09/09. That memorable date, September 9 2009, marked the debut of theartsdesk.com.

It followed some...

Snow Leopard review - clunky visual effects mar a director...

Pema Tseden's final film Snow Leopard is a Chinese Tibetan-language drama that addresses wild animal preservation. It serves as a kind of...

King James, Hampstead Theatre review - UK premiere drains a...

Cleveland is probably the American city most like the one in which I grew up. Early into the icy embrace of post-industrialisation, not...

Kavakos, Philharmonia, Blomstedt, RFH review - a supreme val...

From a privileged position in the Festival Hall stalls, I could see 97-year old Herbert Blomstedt’s near-immobile back as he sat on a piano stool...

Hannah Scott, Worthing Pavilion Theatre Atrium review - fill...

London-based singer-songwriter Hannah Scott has warned her next song may reduce us to tears. It is, she says, inspired by events following the...

A Christmas Carol, Old Vic review - tidings of discomfort an...

This Dickens classic is an annual treat, or a Christmas trial – depending on your point of view. At the...

Mediha review - a brutalised Yazidi teen comes of age with a...

The plight of persecuted minority groups around the world seems to be growing worse. As one form of response, a non-fiction film like Mediha...

Album: Joan Armatrading - How Did This Happen and What Does...

Hard to believe it’s coming up to 30 years since “Love and Affection” put Joan Armatrading in the top 10, a track from her third, self-titled,...

Interview: rising star Chloe Savage on the Arctic, outer spa...

How old were you when you first had an image of the Arctic? When you first had that image, what was it that most resonated? Was it its remoteness...

Album: FaithNYC - Love is a Wish Away

FaithNYC is a vehicle for the singer and songwriter Felice Rosser, an original rooted in reggae...