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.
As the year draws to a close, Team Repeater consider the state of their bookshelves and survey the year through their favourite reads.
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 ,
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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).
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
This is an edited version of a talk given by Carl Neville (author of Resolution Way) at a day of lectures in tribute to Mark Fisher
This is part one of an edited extract from 1996 and the End of History by David Stubbs, published last year by Repeater. Part two
The origin of the luminous phrase ‘killing moon’ is obscure (at least it is to me). Google throws up no reference other than the 1984
by Tariq Goddard for the Quietus I came to extreme metal, or at least post-metal, sludge rock, or whatever experts in branding would describe Neurosis’s
Unsurprisingly, there’s a lot of bombast in the new Oasis documentary Supersonic. Everybody’s busy going mad for it and making history and being the biggest
Tariq Goddard delivers his verdict on Ocean Wisdom’s debut album For listeners of a certain age, myself for example, who feel all of their forty-one
Inspired by Matmos’ brilliant new album and live show, Ultimate Care II—made entirely from sounds created by and with their Whirlpool washing machine—we made a
Neil Kulkarni “No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear” – C.S.Lewis, A Grief Observed Of course, what you mourn at first,
Guest post by David Stubbs. His next book, 1996 and the End of History, will be published by Repeater in 2016. The first time I
2015 is looking like a pretty good year for Christmas music – there have been some good new xmas songs, Stormzy’s Shut Up might be xmas number 1,
When future historians come to make sense of our peculiarly disappointed moment (and good luck to them), some will no doubt wonder where the anger
“In putting together a brief playlist of Japanese female musicians of the 80s/90s I was surprised to discover that one of them, in fact, wasn’t
For all the Pet Shop Boys’ talk of having made “Electric, but more so”, Super is a very different beast from its predecessor. Perhaps it’s
A collage made by Mark Fisher (kpunk) to introduce a talk by Andy Beckett on his new book, Promised You A Miracle: UK 80-82. The
Piggies – The Beatles [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXdKlpBOvs0&w=420&h=315] We Are the Pigs – Suede [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxtIwh1Nz0k&w=420&h=315] Pigs (Three Different Ones) – Pink Floyd [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqblSqx_VI&w=420&h=315] Maggie’s Farm
This is an edited extract from Smile if you Dare: Politics and Pointy Hats with the Pet Shop Boys, by Ramzy Alwakeel, which will be published by
Excellent and important piece by Adam Harper at the Fader putting some of the most exciting artists currently making music into political context: It’s no wonder that
#2 in an occasional series of Repeater playlists. Like #1, this is a selection of new & old tracks we’ve been listening to this month,
