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This issue, let’s explore sounds and ideas that break with convention, fro

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Future Music Magazine

17 October, 2023

Classic Pop

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The accessibility, affordability and portability of synthesizers in the late 70s had a profound effect on popular music, particularly in the UK, where the likes of Ultravox!, Gary Numan and OMD reshap

Pianist Magazine

Pick and mix: which studies to practise?

When it comes to how pianists acquire their technique, the 19th century tradition of practising specially written exercises and studies (etudes) perseveres to this day. Yet many top players claim they

BBC Music Magazine

Books

Everything We Do Is Music – How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop Elizabeth Alker Faber 304pp (hb) £20 The concept behind Elizabeth’s Alker’s book is spelled out in the subtitle: ‘How 20th-Centu

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John foxx

The cerebral musical futurist traces his path from pioneering synth-rock to solo piano meditations

Classic Pop

Electroclash

Chances are, if you went clubbing in 2001 and weren’t strutting your stuff at the local indie fleapit, that you were sweating it over Peaches’ Fuck The Pain Away or Fischerspooner’s Emerge, for it was