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EVER SINCE CLAUDE MONET recorded gray smokestacks on the riverbanks at Argenteuil, France, industrial modernity has stood at the heart of artistic production. Think Diego Rivera’s “Detroit Industry Murals,” 1932–33, Charles Sheeler’s crisscrossing conveyor belts, or Bernd and Hilla Becher’s taxonomic grids. Yet few if any of these artists can claim to have experienced these spaces as has Anthony Lepore, whose modest studio—a roughly five-hundred-square-foot open-top box—is positioned squarely in the center of a working factory floor. To visit the artist, you must enter a nondes...

Being a modern guitar band inevitably turns into a battle of survivalism for any hardened souls who can get through their first few records still intact.

Outernet's LCD screens and music venues have transformed Charing Cross Road. Boss Philip Boucher O'Ferrall shows City A.M. around

Following the release of their debut album, Gen And The Degenerates are heading out on a tour across the UK. See the full dates here.

Joe Strummer, Bobbie Womack, Al Green, Elton John, Squeeze, The Slits, Van Morrison, Fiachra Tench and missing out to The Smiths are all up for discussion as...