Kate Mossman is the New Statesman's arts editor and pop critic.

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Cultural Capital
The man with two brains: inside the strange mind of Nile Rodgers
04 June 2015
His "stupid din".
Cultural Capital
Big audio bounceback: new albums by Blur and The Prodigy reviewed
01 May 2015
Sounds surprisingly robust.
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How Bruce Hornsby survived a hit song
24 April 2015
Waving not drowning.
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Young Fathers interview: “Pop needs to represent culture as it really is”
27 March 2015
The awkward squad.
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Writing the end: Kim Gordon's autobiography is a thoughtful story from inside an epic band
26 February 2015
For fans and non-fans alike.
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Johnny Rotten: “You find the truth by ridiculing yourself”
22 December 2014
Ed Miliband, Ukip and “dangly bits”.
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Who wants to live forever? The new frontiers of posthumous rock
14 November 2014
The show must go on.
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Gnarr! How to fake it as a politician
16 October 2014
Over the Reykjavik.
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Sinead O’Connor’s lively, messy and contradictory version of feminism
08 August 2014
Concept album of sorts.
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Pete Larson, a palaeontologist with a bone to pick
17 July 2014
Not everybody can walk the dinosaur.
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Review: A Letter Home by Neil Young – a froggy echo travelling up the U-bend of time
15 May 2014
A Letter Home.
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Justin Timberlake, the 20/20 Experience Tour
01 April 2014
Will the pleasure never end?
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Brody Dalle: the return of tough, surly female singers
13 March 2014
Riot mom and rock wife.
Kate Mossman on pop
Taylor Swift is for grown-ups, too
13 February 2014
A technicolour future.
Culture
Sunny with a chance of rain: the many moods of John Goodman
24 January 2014
Wigs, anxiety and Roseanne.

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