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Charlie Bertsch

Culture Editor
Charlie Bertsch is The Battleground's Associate Editor. A co-founder of the pioneering internet magazine Bad Subjects: Political Education for Everyday Life, he has also written for Punk Planet magazine, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Phoenix New Times, Tikkun, ZEEK, Alternet, Souciant, The Tucson Sentinel, and The Battleground.

263 articles

It's about being frozen. Suburban Paris, from the train.
Charlie Bertsch / 22 Jan 2020

Banlieue Noir

The Suburbs of TripleGo

How you respond to the work of Paris rap duo TripleGo may well depend on your knowledge of the context that produced them.  If you know it well, you will likely understand why they have received so much praise for the subdued, yet propulsive tracks on their two 2019 albums, MACHAKIL and Yeux Rouge(...)
Charlie Bertsch / 18 Dec 2019

Tito in Pyongyang

Laibach’s Party Songs

When the news broke that the Slovenian band Laibach would be playing North Korea in 2015, long-time fans of their high-concept Kitschkunst smiled. What could be more Laibach than being the first Western rock group to play in the world’s most isolated country? (...)
Charlie Bertsch / 04 Dec 2019

Britain in Fragments

Lee Gamble’s Exhaust

Lee Gamble’s new almost-LP, Exhaust, is not easy to like. Every time one of its eight tracks seems to settle into a groove, it suddenly darts off in a different direction. The patterns that do repeat are usually too complicated to remember before the record has been played many times over. (...)

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