Given the power of the live experience, MIK SABIERS recommends Jon Spencer’s new album
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Escape From Earth: A Secret History of the Space Rocket by Fraser MacDonald
Engrossing history of the US space programme's radical pioneers
Space pioneer: Frank Malina with a WAC Corporal rocket
Reviews of T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo, Tamikrest, and Dub Colossus
The bard celebrates two other fine practitioners of the art, and laments a lost brewer
This right-wing conspiracy theory is used to justify the coercive measures against gender, race and labour rights that best serve capitalism, attests GAVIN O’TOOLE
KENNY MONROSE recommends a new exhibition that highlights the significance of Black British music
ANGUS REID is bowled over by an exuberant film about the making of Keith Jarrett’s legendary concert
WITH the 50th anniversary of the lunar landings being currently marked, the rocket is capturing the imagination once again.
But, as Fraser MacDonald’s book reveals, the rocket that propelled the Apollo mission to the moon had its precursors.
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