HeyJaredHayden Merrick
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Beyond The Music is carrying the ethos of Factory Records into a bright and fair future (opens the original)
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As Manchester showcase and conference Beyond The Music relocates to MediaCity, co-founder Oliver Wilson explains how its ambitious plans for enshrining art as a human right reanimate the legacy of the Factory Records era. 24 years ago, Steve Coogan portrayed Oliver Wilson’s father in a film. 24 Hour Party People tells the fact and fiction of Tony Wilson, aka Mr Manchester, co-founder of Factory Records and manager of the legendary Haçienda venue – HQ of the Madchester movement, and so consequent
Review of Pop-Kultur 2026: Berlin festival brings the German sound home (opens the original)
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Berlin’s Pop-Kultur festival brings home international appreciators of German music and sets them alongside unmissable locals – the ideal way to take stock of today’s pop culture and what that term even means, writes Hayden Merrick. What is the sound of New York? Or London? What about Berlin? You know it when you hear it, right? Confronted with such a pain-in-the-ass question, you might offer a feeling, an energy, a moodboard of bands, colours, adjectives, and onomatopoeias. In any case, there a
The Linda Lindas: "We felt very inspired at a time when routine and habits are easy to fall into" (opens the original)
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LA punk four-piece The Linda Lindas tell Hayden Merrick about making their most emotionally direct record so far as the band edges out of their teens with an anti-fascist mandate for the music industry intact. Eloise Wong went to a show last night at a Los Angeles scene spot called The Sardine. One of the opening bands, Berzerk, spotted the Linda Lindas bassist in the crowd and yoinked him onstage to sing a Bikini Kill cover. “I love being a fan. My favourite thing is being in a crowd,” Eloise s
Katarina Barruk at Varangerfestivalen: “They’re talking in my language” | Interview (opens the original)
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In the remote Arctic community of Vadsø, folk-fusion artist Katarina Barruk spearheads the largest-ever Ume Sámi concert, turning centuries of oppression into empowering documentation. 400 years ago, people who did extraordinary things were accused of being witches and burned at the stake. 135 such people, sentenced to death by fire in the Norwegian county of Finnmark between 1600 and 1692, are commemorated by a memorial on the edge of Vardø. A metal chair is perpetually engulfed in flames, and
Boomtown 2026: The Observatory wants to make the real world a little better (opens the original)
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As part of Boomtown’s radical redesign for 2026, a one-of-a-kind, women-led research hub called The Observatory hopes to stretch its findings far outside the pop-up city’s perimeter. Ever wondered how living in a temporary city alongside temporary neighbours for a weekend alters your behaviour, wellbeing, health, and back-to-reality life? Dr Martha Newson and Shula Rael have. But each year as the sun comes up on Monday morning, the answers drift away from Boomtown like dandelion puffballs in the
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