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In Retrospect: Wilco’s Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

It is hard to describe the way music makes us feel. Once in a while some stray chord change comes along that quite robs us of our ability to communicate, makes us want to close our eyes and melt, rendering us stranded in a state of auditory euphoria. The intensity of this sensory pleasure makes […]

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International Cassette Store Day 2016: too late to rewind?

Last weekend marked the third annual International Cassette store day, aiming to recognise the value of compact cassettes as a musical format in an increasingly digital world. Inspired as a side project of International Record Store Day, the humble audio tape counterpart is a lot more modest in terms of scale and distribution, although there […]