I think this might have been OUTSIDELEFT's best year for content in a while. Anyway, here's 102 of the most widely read stories we published in 2022, lead by Spencer Kansa who only sent in one item. In 2023, Come Back Spencer...
- America Never Deserved Bowie
Spencer Kansa says the American media didn't dare get David by Spencer Kansa - The Yellow Wallpaper - Film Review
The latest version of the classic feminist gothic horror story hits the screens by Lake - Re: Wire
This is what Wire's Not About To Die really sounds like by Alarcon - I Photographed All Of Steve Coogan's Early Characters In My Hulme Flat
Madchester scene photographer Richard Davis discusses his vital documentation of the Manchester scene with Tim London by Tim London - John McGeoch: Quintessential Guitar Man
McGeoch's biography, The Light Pours Out Of Me, by Rory Sullivan Burke is out in April by Tim London - Toon Traveler: One Man's Dream in Tangerine
Toon Traveler takes a three mile Metro ride to see Tangerine Dream. It Ain't That Easy by Toon Traveller - A Bunch of Five - Momus
Musician and International Flaneur, Momus shares five considered things... by OL House Writer - David Bowie Turns 75, Releases a New Album, Continues To Pivot and Live Forever
Alarcon in his birthday suit... Remembering a lost master by Alarcon - Momus : Smudger
John Robinson listens to Smudger the new LP from Momus by John Robinson - The World We Knew - Film Review
Sheridan Coyle on the stylish low budget gangsters versus ghosts spookfest. by Sheridan Coyle - Dust and Wisps
Drawing and Painting at Cornelius Projects by LamontPaul - I Was Buffalo Bill
Jeremy Gluck on Nikki Sudden, Rowland S Howard, Epic Soundtracks and becoming Buffalo Bill by Jeremy Gluck - Real Teen Shimmer...
John Robinson hears the new Amoeba Teen LP and what he hears is good by John Robinson - Momus - A Complete History
John Robinson's journey through the work of Momus starts here... by Jay Lewis - Ceremony: Pop Comes to Campus 1965-1995
Ancient Champion sees the University of Birmingham's live music history make an exhibition of itself. by Ancient Champion - Mark Stewart. VS
Tim London listens to a new LP of collabs from Pop Group legend, Mark Stewart by Tim London - Touchline - A Short Film About Football and Palestine
Sheridan Coyle interviews director Mohammed Saffouri ahead of his film premier at the Tribeca Film Festival by Sheridan Coyle - Hope and Glory After All
Hailed as an exciting new voice in British fiction, Jendella Benson arrives with her debut novel, Hope and Glory by Ancient Champion - Our Subversive Voice: The History and Politics of the English Protest Song
An Interview with Oskar Cox Jensen, an investigator of the use of song to register protest through the ages by Tim London - Bruce Claypool
The abstract art and iconic design of Bruce Claypool by Ancient Champion - Marion Raw
A Star Is Born by Ancient Champion - Outsideleft at SXSW - Mojo Nixon / Cymande / King Crimson - The Massive Music Documentary Round-Up
The final report from the SXSW film festival focuses on three music doc premieres by Lake - Pamina Stewart Found Art
Often for Birmingham based artist Pamina Stewart the work begins with something thrown away by Ancient Champion - Zero Hours Is The Best You Can Get
Neil Campbell talks about his trio of poetic tales of unsteady work and fraught lives by Ancient Champion - Mitski's Road to Laurel Hell
Four years on from 'Be The Cowboy' - where is Mitski now? by Erin - Let's Hear It For The Boy
Elvis spends time with a Boy with a Problem by Jay Lewis - Two For the Road: Vloeimans and Holshouser
Trumpet and Accordion is the Drum and Bass for a New Generation says Toon Traveler by Toon Traveller - Kind Of Punk, Part 2: Buzzcocks
Kind Of Punk - the recollections of a 'nice girl' in a small town by Pam - Portrait of a Lady
Tim London hears Shilpa Ray by Tim London - LA TRADICÓN QUE NOS ATRAVIESA
The Tradition That Runs Through Us featuring Greta Alfaro, Maria Coma and many more greats! right now in Barcelona by Ancient Champion - Forty Years On: The Fall's 'Hex Enduction Hour'
The first of Jay Lewis' deep dives in his favourite albums of 1982, start with an album that's 40 years old this week... by Jay Lewis - CMAT: If My Wife Knew I'd Be Dead
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson writes up a storm... by Tim London - The Fiery and Frenetic World of Walker Brigade
John Robinson hears Walker Brigade inhabit an uber-inventive, experimental zone between punk and new-wave on their new LP, If Only by John Robinson - Pam's Kind of Punk Diary #4: The Clash at the Glasgow Apollo
The Clash, Suicide, The Specials... Down at the Apollo a riot was going on by Pam - Track By Track: Brother Lee - Discotheque Blues
Brother Lee talks us through his new LP by LamontPaul - Saving Fashion and Landfills One Towel at a Time
Jeff Yokoyama's Fashion Sense is Circular by Alarcon - 'Here's Looking at You' - 50 years of 'Roxy Music'
... the other iconic album released 50 years ago this week. by Jay Lewis - Living for the Weeknd
Erin tunes in to the dazzling Dawn FM by Erin - Baggy Love
Tim London looks at Richard Davis' Madchester Years 1989-91 by Tim London - Carl on Film
Talking Film's Carl Sweeney on the Oscars, cheated Gangsters and significant moments from cinema's New Wave... by Sheridan Coyle - Ancient Champion: Harry Partch, The Greatest Outsider
Composer and instrument maker, Harry Partch by Ancient Champion - Life Between Islands
Tim London is at Tate Britain for the Caribbean-British Art Survey by Tim London - Ancient Champion: Breakfast in America
Breakfast In America is published here as part of Outsideleft's celebration of all short stories... by Ancient Champion - Steve Earle: 87
From the Jeremy Gluck Archives: Steve Earle Interview, 1987 by Jeremy Gluck - Solid'Art, Paris: Art In Action
Acquire a piece of art at Secours Populaire's contemporary art fair and a child gets a holiday by LamontPaul - A Hero For Our Times
Murkage Dave talks to Tim London about culture, pop's culture and... an enduring love for Sting! by Tim London - Marty Roberts of Iconic Los Angeles Lounge Act Marty & Elayne Dies at 89
Alarcon mourns the loss of one of the Cocktail Nation's founding fathers. by Alarcon - Traces of the Earth
Pauline Bailey, Joyce Treasure and Ola Brown at the Lapworth Museum of Geology by LamontPaul - Tales From The Ghost Town
Alan Rider talks about his finely crafted book on Coventry's 70s/80s fanzine culture by Ancient Champion - Neil Campbell's The Last Bookseller
A new short story from acclaimed indie author Neil Campbell by Neil Campbell - Greenham Common
Janine Wiedel: Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp 1983-1984 by Tim London - Track By Track: Happy Songs by The Family Grave
Jon from The Family Grave talks us through their new LP Happy Songs by LamontPaul - Twenty One's Twelve
Jay Lewis selects twelve of his photographs from the last twelve months by Jay Lewis - museumgoer talks. to museumgoer
ancient champion listens in by Ancient Champion - This Is (Power) Pop!!!
John Robinson hears Anton Barbeau's ecstatic product of a lockdown time by John Robinson - You Are Not My Mother - Film Review
Film Editor, Lake views a disturbing debut feature from Irish director Kate Dolan. by Lake - Forty Years On: 'You Can't Hide Your Love Forever'
Jay Lewis continues his trawl through the best albums of 1982, today it's Orange Juice's debut by Jay Lewis - Move Me - Film Review
Kelsey Peterson's intimate documentary about navigating disability, loss and rebirth. by Lake - Ancient Champion at that Half Time Show
Inglewood drew Dr Dre, Snoop Dogg, 50 Cent, Mary J Blige, Kendrick Lamarr, Eminem and Anderson Paak's The National together with a cast of thousands... by Ancient Champion - Alarcon on Exodus
Following an assassination attempt, Bob Marley decamped to London... by Alarcon - Oh Man, Not Timmy Thomas Too
Tim London remembers the iconic and less well known but amazingly great songs of Timmy Thomas by Tim London - Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe In You
Bigger, more magical Big Thieves by LamontPaul - Ancient Champion: Reyner Banham Loved Los Angeles
When Los Angeles was the Future by Ancient Champion - A Voice for Landscape
Dylan Williams is shaking up the landscape and talking to Jeremy Gluck along the way by Jeremy Gluck - Slouching Towards Eden: An evening with Jim Crace
Jim Crace in conversation with C.D. Rose by Meave Haughey - Pam's Kind of Punk Diary #3: Punk Dilemmas
Pam's opening her original punk diaries from the late 70s... by Pam - Suicide '88: Wild and Blue
From the Jeremy Gluck Archives: Suicide by Jeremy Gluck - Miss Clara The International Celebrity Superstar
The Barber Institute's Celebrity Beasts in Art, 1500-1860 by Ancient Champion - Toon Traveler on the war in Ukraine
Toon Traveler considers Tim London's Ukraine piece by Toon Traveller - Zeros and Ones - Film Review
Abel Ferrara's lockdown conspiracy thriller featuring triple Ethan Hawke by Lake - Forty Years On - 'Shoot Out The Lights' by Richard and Linda Thompson
Jay Lewis continues his trawl through the best albums of 1982, today it's a folk rock masterpiece by Jay Lewis - Marko Nyberg's Nordic Noir
John Robinson hears Marko Nyberg's new EP Ingrid by John Robinson - Wild Men - Film Review
Martin's midlife crisis finds him high up in the mountains of Norway dressed as a Viking and on the run by Lake - Tomas Fujiwara's on a Triple Double
Toon Traveler says Tomas Fujiwara's Triple Double is Worth the Commitment by Toon Traveller - Outsideleft at SXSW - Bitch Ass
Billed as the first masked Black serial killer, Bitch Ass comes lumbering across the screen in this undercooked slasher by Lake - Promises, Promises: Punk, Pop and the Sawn-off Sixties of Generation X
A deep dive into Jeremy Gluck's archive... with Generation X by Jeremy Gluck - Pure Class
Tim London gets The Social Distance Between Us, Darren McGarvey's acclaimed new polemic by Tim London - Outsideleft at SXSW - short film round-up
Lake is virtually in Texas, reporting back on the cinematic side of the SXSW festival by Lake - Outsideleft at SXSW - CHEE$E
Damian Marcano's joyous cheese and crime drama premieres at SXSW. by Lake - City Kids London '73
Cafe Royal Books reissue Simon Pope's essential photography of London Kids in the seventies by Tim London - The Trembling of 'Limbs'
Keeley Forsyth's sublime second album by Jay Lewis - Track By Track: Museumgoer - Museumgoer 19
Musuemgoer's series of ambient EPs reaches number 19 by Ancient Champion - In The Spirit of Curtis Mayfield
Tim London hears Murkage Dave's new LP, The City Needs A Hero by Tim London - The Self: SWND Co-Founder Jeremy Gluck Returns With Stellar Remix Compilation
The Self closes one circle and cycle of creative output, while creating a further one by LamontPaul - Know Your Product: Soulmate!
Tim Sparks looks at the T-Rex Soulmate acoustic guitar multi-fx pedal by Tim Sparks - Pam's Kind of Punk Diaries
Anti-Nazi League Carnival at Craigmillar Park, Edinburgh by Pam - The Divine Comedy, Charmed Life, I'm sure
Pop interlocutor Kath Pargeter hears the Divine Comedy and wonders who's laughing now by Katherine Pargeter - Control - Film Review
A locked room Sci-fi puzzle with a psychic kick by Lake - Beam Me Up, Scotty
Interstellar salutations for Lieutenant Nyota Uhura, Nichelle Nichols by Ancient Champion - Neu! 50! Box Set
All-star (The National, Mogwai, The Idles + More) Tribute LP and 50th Anniversary Box Set by Duncan Jones - Cursed Child
Mark Stewart talks to Tim London by Tim London - A Bunch of Five - Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
Artists and Filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard choose five of their favourite things by OL House Writer - The Tale of King Crab - Film Review
The story of luckless Luciano banished to the end of the world by Lake - Track By Track: Dreams - The Real Tuesday Weld
Bandleader Stephen Coates talks us through the group's great new album Dreams one song at a time by Lee Paul - Vanley Burke: Blood & Fire
A Journey Through Vanley Burke's History - Soho House, Birmingham by Ancient Champion - Still Sick! Incurable Psychobilly 30 Years On
Sheridan Coyle slicks his quiff and checks in with In Line Juggs bass player Ditch to dissect the reissue of the band's long lost debut album by Sheridan Coyle - Trainwreck: Woodstock '99
Alarcon's back at Woodstock 2 by Alarcon - A Bunch of Five - Maya Kuroki
Lead singer with Canadian psyche-rockers TEKE::TEKE, and an acclaimed visual artist, Maya Kuroki's surrounded by 5 significant things by OL House Writer - As It Is To Be
Victoria Arriola's new show at SPARC by Ancient Champion - Without John Lomax You Probably Don't Exist
Tim London digging deep into the South Carolina field recordings of John Lomax by Tim London - Wake Up! To Sounds From A Forgotten Past...
Remember that old James Blood Ulmer LP? Toon Traveler just found a copy in his garage and has no recollection of how it got there by Toon Traveller - The Caller
File Wayne Dean-Richards under Microfiction... by Wayne Dean-Richards
