Michael Symmons Roberts
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Slipknot, Arena Birmingham review – Iowa metal-heads tear th...
Given Slipknot’s studied image as arch misanthropes, with their horror show costumes, aggressive posturing and frightening masks designed to put...
Albert Costa: The Bilingual Brain review – double-talking he...
Those of us who have to toil and sweat with other languages often feel a twinge of envy when we meet truly bilingual folk. That ability to switch...
Clemens Meyer: Dark Satellites review - eccentric orbits
In Clemens Meyer’s new collection of short stories Dark...
Reissue CDs Weekly: Game Theory - Across The Barrier Of Soun...
Since this column last caught up with the totemic California art-popsters Game Theory, band mainstay Gil Ray passed away. He died in January 2017...
Bombay Bicycle Club, Cardiff University Students Union revie...
When a band claims a crowd is the loudest of the tour, you can usually guarantee they've said it on every other date too. But for one sweaty night...
Gerde's Folk City at 60, The Iridium, New York City - a...
Fifty-nine years to the day, 24 January 1961, that a young college dropout named Robert Zimmerman clambered out of a car on the Manhattan end of...
Cargill, BBCSO, Saraste, Barbican review - less is more in S...
Jukka-Pekka Saraste doesn’t visit London much these days. He was Principal Guest Conductor of the...
Stewart Copeland's Adventures in Music, BBC Four review...
Drums away: Stewart Copeland, drummer with The Police and a score of other groups, composer for films, video games and operas, now beams...