a little backstory
RocknRoll Writing About Pop Culture Matters
Writers Alarcon and Lamontpaul founded outsideleft in 2004, an internet age ago. Conceived as a fanzine firmly in the corner of the kind of pop culture fewer people care about. Rock 'n' Roll writing about Pop Culture Matters was the mantra and a journey began to change some small part of the world they inhabited.
outsideleft?
An outside left is a winger, an outlier, an alchemist, a nonconformist, the last name on the team sheet a thriller of the masses in pink leather boots, a sure and sometimes unreliable source of inspiration and now an online magazine of sometimes ill-repute. one outside left once claimed to have spent a fortune on women and booze, and the rest, he said, he just wasted. we know what he meant.
since then
outsideleft got its thumbprints on the web on clung on. lots of writers have come and mostly gone on to better things. for others their brush with outsideleft was enough to convince them that the romance of rocknroll writing was not all it might be. mercifully for us all. corporations took over the internet. phones took over the internet. tablets took over from phones. your digital assistant possibly found this for you and is reading it to you. corporations took over from people. most people stood still while thinking they were moving. a lot of people began to look backwards over their shoulders instead of forwards and thought they liked what they saw. things didn't go as planned.
there were four chronicles of our content out there
although due to our ineptitude, now only three that you can collect.
The First Annual Outsideleft Hardy Annual - a collection of articles from year one of outsideleft.
Darkness Racket and Twang (Essential Listening from the Fringes of Popular and Unpopular Music) - Alex V. Cook (paperback/kindle)
Everyday I Atrophy - Chris Connolly
and now and next
we don't know yet
Adventures in the archives
What Readers are Reading Right Now
- Our A-Z of Cultural Highs Were Not Always Your A-Z of Cultural Highs
Music, Movies, Television, Art, and Similar Things That Made 2020 bearable chosen by our editors, contributors, and special guest stars - I Met Ariel Pink's Mom
So when news hit that avant-garde radio-in-my-head upstart Ariel Pink was bring his freakshow to Bogalusa, LA's quotidian Centennial Fest, I had to make the trip. The good money back in Baton Rouge was that Ariel Pink would not make it out alive - I Can See For Miles
Tower Block author Professor Miles Glendinning talks to Outsideleft - Bow Wow Wow! - Mighty Doglude
Joe Ambrose gets wowed by The Mighty Underdogs - Erratics and Unconformities
2020 long form recording of the year was by Craven Faults - No Time Like the Present to Not Present Things
Sweet Procrastination - it is the frosting on the cake of indolence - but it keeps me from telling you about some really good records. - 300 Words From London: Blek Le Rat Comes To Town
Legendary street stencil artist and graffiti pioneer Blek Le Rat hits East London. - Suspect Junction
The Sunset Junction street fair is a fun chaotic day out for the whole family. Bring your parents with long memories, they'll enjoy the music - And the Ass Saw The Side-Project
Grinderman hearkens back to the triumphant lows of The Birthday Party while adhering to the less-thrilling highs of the Bad seeds - This is the Sound of a Young Galaxy
Canadians, Young Galaxy get the once over from Shane O'Reilly
All About and Contributors
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WRITE FOR OUTSIDELEFT
If Outsideleft had arms they would always be wide open and welcoming to new writers and new ideas. If you've got something to say, something a small dank corner of the world needs to know about, a poem to publish, a book review, a short story, if you love music or the arts or anything else, write something about it and send it along. Of course we don't have anything as conformist as a budget here. But we'd love to see what you can do. Write for Outsideleft, do. [SUBMISSIONS FORM HERE]
WRITERS thru' the Years
Alan Devey, Alex V. Cook, Ancient Champion, Andy Allison, Annemiek, Belle Plankton, Bruce Bailey, Caiomhin Millar, Chantal, Cheiron Coelho, Chris Connolly, Christian Present, Damon Hayhurst, Dan Breen, David Hackney, Denni Boyd, Dirty Lillie, DJ Fuzzyfelt, Duncan Jones, Emerson O'Sullivan III aka FancyLad, Erin Pipes, Erin Scott, Eswin21, Guilaine Arts, H.xx, Hamilton High, Henderson Downing, Holly Martins, J. Charreaux, Jason Lewis, Jaycentee, Jennifer Lynn, Jeremy Gluck, Jez Collins, Joe Ambrose, John Robinson, Julie O, Karl Morgan, Katherine Pargeter, Kelsey Osgood, Kevin McHugh, Lake, Lee Paul, Luke Skinner, Malcolm, Marek Pytel, Mark Piggott, Meave Haughey, Michelle Williams, mindy strouse, Paul Hawkins, Paul Quigley, Peter Williams, Pixie McMowat, Pixievic, Rene Williams, Rick Casson, Ronan Crinion, Ruby Lake, Ryan 'RJO' Stewart, Samantha Charles, Seth Sherwood, Shane O'Reilly, Sophia Satchell-Baeza, Speedie John, Toon Traveller, and founders, Alarcon & LamontpaulOUTSIDELEFT UNIVERSE
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