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Outsideleft.com features music, arts and other stuff broadly ignored elsewhere. Outsideleft is inspired in some ways by California's 1960s Assemblage Artists and the UK's late 70s fanzine publishers. Outsideleft—Culture fewer people care about matters here
New in Outsideleft → Irsol: Second Contact By Alan Rider #NewMusic #MusicReview
Irsol: Second Contact
Alan Rider talks to VOD-Fest stars Irsol about playing only their second gig in 40 years, transatlantic rehearsals, and re-activating after a long gap
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New in Outsideleft → The End Of The Continuum By Alan Rider #NewMusic #MusicReview
The End Of The Continuum
Modelbau's latest album is sublime, says Alan Rider
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New in Outsideleft → Sent From Coventry By Alan Rider #Books #Literature
Sent From Coventry
Elizabeth Tyler's book of images from 1960s Coventry captures the grime and spirit of the city at that time.
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New in Outsideleft → Outsideleft Weekly Digest: August 15th - 21st, 2026 By OL House Writer #NewMusic #MusicReview
Outsideleft Weekly Digest: August 15th - 21st, 2026
A curated selection of the latest stories from Outsideleft, compiled for your weekly reading pleasure. Aug 15th - Aug 21st, 2026
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New in Outsideleft → Outsideleft Week in Music: The Heat Is Off By OL House Writer #NewMusic #MusicReview
Outsideleft Week in Music: The Heat Is Off
We're hearing from The Koreatown Oddity, Seb Lowe, XTC, Everything Is Recorded and Jah Wobble, Teardrop Explodes, Antônio Neves and Thiaguinho Silva, Rick Wakeman and Brian Eno, heavens to betsy, Dumm
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New in Outsideleft → Coppergear: Hot Property By Alan Rider #NewMusic #MusicReview
Coppergear: Hot Property
Alan Rider reviews the latest, heatwave themed, album 'Hush' from Quebec experimentalist par excellence, Mathieu Lachance aka Coppergear
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New in Outsideleft → The Radical Rise of Rock Troncho By Sofia Ribeiro Willcox #NewMusic #MusicReview
The Radical Rise of Rock Troncho
Papangu and the Wave of Brazilian Artists Decolonising the Geography of Heavy Metal
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New in Outsideleft → Encounters: King Sans By Alan Rider #NewMusic #MusicReview
Encounters: King Sans
The Chicago-based noise-rock duo are feeling lucky in the latest of our occasional 'Encounters' series
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New in Outsideleft → POW! When UK Punk Went Pop By Mark Jay #Books #Literature
POW! When UK Punk Went Pop
Mark Jay reviews Jamming! and Apocalypse/The Dear Boys Tony Fletcher's new memoir of a youth far from misspent
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New in Outsideleft → Breathless, Breathless, Breathless By Ancient Champion #Film #Cinema
Breathless, Breathless, Breathless
Richard Linklater's Nouvelle Vague is on the BFI player
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New in Outsideleft → More Pride Less Prejudice By Martin Devenney #Culture #Arts
More Pride Less Prejudice
Why Pride events are as important today as they have ever been
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New in Outsideleft → Eu Vou Para Marancagalha, Eu (Não) Vou: By Sofia Ribeiro Willcox #NewMusic #MusicReview
Eu Vou Para Marancagalha, Eu (Não) Vou:
70 Years Since Dorival Caymmi Immortalised Bahia’s Forgotten Paradise
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New in Outsideleft → Outsideleft Weekly Digest: August 8th - 14th, 2026 By OL House Writer #NewMusic #MusicReview
Outsideleft Weekly Digest: August 8th - 14th, 2026
A curated selection of the latest stories from Outsideleft, compiled for your weekly reading pleasure. Aug 8th - Aug 14th, 2026
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New in Outsideleft → It sounds best when everyone plays By Agata Makiela #Culture #Arts
It sounds best when everyone plays
Inside Gabriel's gospel collective
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New in Outsideleft → Outsideleft Week in Music: Playing the Spoons By OL House Writer #NewMusic #MusicReview
Outsideleft Week in Music: Playing the Spoons
We're hearing from Sophie Sirota, Sharero Band, Orbital, Chat Pile, Fever Ray, Kristin Hersh, The Room, Lung, BABEHOVEN, The Rat Utopia Experiment, Echoberyl, Skúli Sverrisson and Bill Frisell, Soft C
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New in Outsideleft → Encounters: Lung By Alan Rider #NewMusic #MusicReview
Encounters: Lung
Dave White from NZ Post-Punkers LUNG is under the OUTSIDELEFT microscope today in the latest of our Encounters series.
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New in Outsideleft → Another Arrow For The Golden Goose By Alan Rider #Culture #Arts
Another Arrow For The Golden Goose
New and onerous EU packaging rules are yet another attack on the viability of DIY record labels and bands
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New in Outsideleft → Memorials to the Dead By John Robinson #Culture #Arts
Memorials to the Dead
A journey into England's most unusual graves contains a hidden social history
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New in Outsideleft → Wayne Dean-Richards: sub-wait #1 By Wayne Dean-Richards #Books #Literature
Wayne Dean-Richards: sub-wait #1
sub-wait #1 is the 24th of 42 poems from Wayne's forthcoming collection, Days of Ordinary Madness
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New in Outsideleft → Digbeth Is Going off The Rails on A Crazy Train By Sofia Ribeiro Willcox #Culture #Arts
Digbeth Is Going off The Rails on A Crazy Train
Sofia Ribeiro Wilcox worries that demolishing the past to build the future risks throwing away a legacy
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New in Outsideleft → Seven Months of Sundays By OL House Writer #Culture #Arts
Seven Months of Sundays
OUTSIDELEFT's Sunday Interviews have covered a lot of ground in 2026 to date. And there will be more to come.
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New in Outsideleft → Outsideleft Weekly Digest: August 1st - 7th, 2026 By OL House Writer #NewMusic #MusicReview
Outsideleft Weekly Digest: August 1st - 7th, 2026
A curated selection of the latest stories from Outsideleft, compiled for your weekly reading pleasure. Aug 1st - Aug 7th, 2026
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New in Outsideleft → 3 to 5 Hours of Work for an Unfinished Album By Sofia Ribeiro Willcox #Culture #Arts
3 to 5 Hours of Work for an Unfinished Album
Sofia Ribeiro Wilcox laments the plight of the vinyl album and small label in an industry lead resurgence
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New in Outsideleft → Outsideleft Week in Music: Lord of the Flies By OL House Writer #NewMusic #MusicReview
Outsideleft Week in Music: Lord of the Flies
We're hearing from Inspectah Deck, Metric, Whisper Doll, XTC, Man/Woman/Chainsaw, This Is Lorelei, American Football, Q, Mass Minor, Sleep, King Sans, Karate Boogaloo, @, Roots Manuva, Tom Waits, Blon
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New in Outsideleft → King Sans: Selling The Cow By Alan Rider #NewMusic #MusicReview
King Sans: Selling The Cow
When something like King Sans debt LP comes along, Alan Rider sits up and takes notice.
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New in Outsideleft → Wayne Dean-Richards: national pastels By Wayne Dean-Richards #Books #Literature
Wayne Dean-Richards: national pastels
'national pastels' is the 23rd of 42 poems from Wayne's forthcoming collection, Days of Ordinary Madness
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New in Outsideleft → Essential Experience By OL House Writer #Books #Literature
Essential Experience
A new poem from Christopher Hall
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New in Outsideleft → Conversations with the Unconscious #4: Yellow Curtain By Agata Makiela #Culture #Arts
Conversations with the Unconscious #4: Yellow Curtain
Dream 4 in a series by Agata Makiela
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New in Outsideleft → Strawberry Alarm Clock: Where's One? By John Robinson #NewMusic #MusicReview
Strawberry Alarm Clock: Where's One?
Return of a legendary psychedelic band with new material.
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New in Outsideleft → Sophie Sirota: The Outsideleft Sunday Interview By Alan Rider #NewMusic #MusicReview
Sophie Sirota: The Outsideleft Sunday Interview
Alan Rider speaks to experimental viola artist and co-organiser of Kent's Coastal Electronauts about her new album of remixes, creating jeopardy on stage, and discovering The Pixies.
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