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The “battle of the bands” marketing gimmick had its roots in the 1960s, in the manufactured confrontation between the Beatles

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I saw Simple Minds live in 2015, in the German city of Kassel, and the memory of it haunts me

Nu-metal is exceedingly naff – this much is clear. But there’s no room for musical snobbery here at CultureCrap, where

I more or less stopped listening to music by new artists in around 2010, resigning myself thereafter to releases by

I strongly disliked Blur when I was growing up; affected, effete, bourgeois southern softies, bête noires to the authentic working-class