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49: When does a simulation become a dystopia?
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49: When does a simulation become a dystopia?

Here come the men in black.

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It’s Glastonbury weekend, and we’re back with the Big Questions.

First off, big shout to everybody who attended our live episode with Jeff Weiss last night in London. We’ll get the recording out soon, but in the meantime, please go check out Jeff’s new book Waiting for Britney Spears – a truly essential tome that manages to chart both the rise of the Von Dutch trucker cap and the collapse of print media with unparalleled flair.

Not a sentence we expected to be saying on No Tags, but we kick off by talking about Will Smith – specifically his recent appearance with London streamer du jour DJ AG. The Fresh Prince is in the middle of a generationally cringe promo run (to promote some generationally cringe music) and we’ve been wanting to discuss AG’s streams for a while now, so these two forces colliding over a dubstep remix of the Men in Black theme felt like the perfect opportunity.

If you’re looking for something more high-brow, well, you still have to get through Tom’s full review of the Cooper’s Hill Cheese Roll – aka Final Destination: Cotswolds. Once we’re through that, it’s onto higher ground, debriefing recent experiences at Polyphonic Eating with Yu Su, Warp Records’ ‘happening’ at The Barbican and a No Tags night out at Corsica for Hodge and Peverelist. Music writers who still go to clubs? Perish the thought!

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