Music Stories
“Magic Can Be Fun”: remembering Ken Downie of The Black Dog
Much about The Black Dog was and remains wrapped in an air of mystery and mischief, so perhaps it’s unsurprising that Ken Downie’s death this week came as an unexpected shock to those outside of his small immediate circle.
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This t-shirt explains that t-shirts make money for artists and Spotify streaming doesn’t
The Black Dog produced a wonderful piece of self-reflective merch. The sobering message: you’d have to stream on Spotify 6500 times to match this one t-shirt.
Peter Kirn - December 5, 2019
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Interview: Sheffield’s The Black Dog Branch into Controllers, With Crowd-Funded Gear
The Black Dog are titans of experimental techno and house, with a long record to match. (We reviewed – and praised – their latest album, Tranklements.) But you may not associate them with manufacturing hardware. As the landscape of crowd-funded music hardware grows, though, that’s exactly the venture they’re now willing to take, as the […]
- September 13, 2013
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