Pulp matter more than ever in today's cowed popcultural landscape | Owen Hatherley

The band have returned to a moribund music scene crying out for Jarvis Cocker's acute class-consciousnessPulp, who played their first concert in the UK for nearly a decade at the Isle of Wight last Saturday, were the last art school band. That doesn't mean that groups won't still borrow Rodchenko designs for record sleeves or publish tortured poetry, but it means that something quite specific has ended, and shows no signs of springing back into life.From the early 1970s until the 1990s, hundreds...

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