Jean Delville, The Treasures of Satan, 1895.
Jean Delville, The Treasures of Satan, 1895.
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Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi
In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether, the Collected Works contain more than 2,600 pages of rare early Bowden. (more…)
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism here.
You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Reactionary Modernism here.
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Part 5 of 7
Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi
In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether, the Collected Works contain more than 2,600 pages of rare early Bowden. (more…)
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Come with me on a trip through the past. I’ll season it with a soundtrack if you click on the links, so it will be a bit like a John Hughes movie experience, but with the subject of my less than stellar life some forty years ago. And with even better music, since I picked all of it!
I went to high school in the late 1970s. As I touched upon elsewhere, my American hometown wasn’t a bad place to grow up. I was one of those boys who liked school, at least for the first several years. Then, as you can imagine, from puberty onwards I found myself among the uncool. (more…)
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Simple Minds
New Gold Dream (81/82/83/84)
Virgin UK/A&M USA, 1982
New Gold Dream is arguably Simple Minds’ greatest album, the other leading candidate being 1985’s Once Upon a Time. (more…)
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When Marianne Faithfull died on January 30, 2025, it hit me that I had been a fan of her music for most of my life. Such milestones are occasions for what I like to call the Full Life Audit. We have grown up immersed in propaganda and decadence, and even though we might consciously reject them, they are still inside us and come to the surface in surprising ways. (more…)
Bruce Springsteen performing on stage. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
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Bruce Springsteen performing on stage. Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
This past Thursday, rock n’ roll icon Bruce Springsteen gave a solo acoustic performance during a Kamala Harris rally in Georgia. He famously did the same for Barack Obama back in 2008, and has been up front and consistent about his lefty politics ever since. (more…)
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Paul Fussell
Wartime: Understanding and Behavior in the Second World War
New York: Oxford University Press, 1989
Most readers know Paul Fussell from his satiric Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, which, intended as a humorous study of American mores, has been accepted as a legitimate guideline to what H. L. Mencken called Boobis americanus. (more…)
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Trevor Herbert, ed.
The British Brass Band: A Musical and Social History
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000
The brass band was central to British musical life for over a century. (more…)
Kaldrad Tribute (M8l8th, organizátor festivalů Asgardsrei, vyhlásil, že letošní /2019/ Asgardsrei bude věnován Kaldradovu odkazu)
Kaldrad Tribute (M8l8th, organizátor festivalů Asgardsrei, vyhlásil, že letošní /2019/ Asgardsrei bude věnován Kaldradovu odkazu)
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English original here
Kdo chce plně porozumět významu letošního festivalu Asgardsrei, musí plně pochopit dopad scény Blazebirth Hall a zejména jejího nejplodnějšího umělce Kaldrada na NSBM (nacionálně socialistický black metal) i na sound východoevropského black metalu jako takový.
Nikdy jsem se s Kaldradem nesetkal, ani neviděl žádné z jeho nemnoha živých vystoupení. (more…)
Van Morrison
Van Morrison
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The new groups are not concerned
With what there is to be learned.
They got Burton suits. Ha!
You think it’s funny?
Turning rebellion into money. — The Clash, “White Man in Hammersmith Palais”
Is it not wonderful to see Britain still shining as a beacon of youthful rock ‘n’ roll rebellion, with bands telling it like it is and generally sticking it to The Man? Oh, wait. My mistake. I was thinking of 1979. (more…)
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Is Billie Eilish’s new Bond song, “No Time to Die,” the worst Bond song ever? Close. But sadly, there is a lot of competition for that title. Here is my ranking, from best to worst.
Note: Not every Bond theme is a Bond song. Doctor No and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service have instrumental themes. Beyond that, many Bond movies contain non-theme songs that are, nevertheless, strongly associated with the films. I will discuss two of them here. (more…)
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Greg Johnson talks to Morgoth of Morgoth’s Review on the web, Bitchute, and YouTube about White Nationalist culture jamming, the Eternal Anglo vs. Tolkienism, Arts & Crafts, and Aestheticism, Roger Scruton, whiteness in classical and pop music, the 2019 UK General Election, (more…)
Björk
Björk
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Björk’s music is full of range and dimension. This is true both in the sense of her voice, which sweeps across octaves with equal helpings of elegance and coarseness, but also in her varied inflection and choice of songwriting material. One could plot her music on a chart with two poles that span innocence and seductiveness, alongside harmony and discordance, and find that she dances around in all four quadrants (more…)
