Repeater’s Favourite Reads in 2020
As the year draws to a close, Team Repeater consider the state of their bookshelves and survey the year through their favourite reads.
Competition: Tell us your favourite Bowie lyric and win a copy of Ashes to Ashes!
On the third anniversary of the death of one of the world's most influential musicians, we're giving away three copies of Ashes to Ashes: The Songs of David Bowie 1976–2016 , by Chris O'Leary. The book hits everything from “Heroes” to the Labyrinth soundtrack, from his
Repeater Books at Unsound Festival
Last month Repeater's Director of Marketing Tamar attended Unsound Festival in Poland with our authors Paul Rekret and Ryan Diduck. The main Repeater events were a Mark Fisher reading group organised around the forthcoming collection k-punk: The Collected and Unpublished Writings
Tariq Goddard and Carl Neville review John Carpenter at Shepherd’s Bush Empire
To celebrate Halloween, Repeater publisher and author of Nature and Necessity Tariq Goddard and Resolution Way author Carl Neville reviewed John Carpenter's live show for The Quietus! Everyone will have their favourite John Carpenter movie, ours is Escape From New York. Or
“You can count me out… in” — Alan Bradshaw on fifty years of the Beatles’ “Revolution”
On the fiftieth anniversary of the Beatles' "Revolution", Alan Bradshaw, co-author of Advertising Revolution: The Story of a Song, from Beatles Hit to Nike Slogan, recounts the story of one of the most famous and controversial adverts of all time. Fifty
Tariq Goddard in conversation with Brett Anderson from Suede
Tariq Goddard, Repeater publisher and author of Nature and Necessity, had a chat with Brett Anderson from Suede as part of Radio 4's Only Artists series, which brings two artists together to talk about their creative work. You can listen to the
Listen to Daniel Spicer’s Turkish psych compilation!
In anticipation of the release of Daniel Spicer's new book The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych (1965-1980) next week, have a listen to a Turkish psych compilation Dan compiled for The Wire's primer series in 2011. Listen to it here. The book is released
Read an extract from Mad Skills
Next week we'll be publishing Ryan Alexander Diduck's Mad Skills: MIDI and Music Technology in the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of MIDI and it's impact on the ways music is made and consumed. From today you can read an extract from
Mark Fisher on The Fall
To commemorate the passing of Mark E Smith, below is Mark Fisher's analysis of The Fall's Grotesque (After the Gramme), from The Weird and the Eerie (2016). “Body a tentacle mess”: The Grotesque and The Weird: The Fall The word grotesque derives from a
Down With Childhood — a mix by Paul Rekret
Down With Childhood: Pop Music and the Crisis of Innocence is out today! Check out this excellent mix by author Paul Rekret showcasing the multitude of ways in which children's voices are used in music. And for more of this
