Pyongyang goes pop
Our fearless music writer ventures into North Korea to play the locals Lethal Bizzle tracks on his iPod. Amazingly, he lives to tell the tale
Pyongyang goes pop: Jarvis Cocker unites the divided
It's the final part of our pop adventures in North Korea ... and what better way to end than playing the locals some 'communist pop' (ie Pulp's Common People)
Pyongyang goes pop: sex scandal on the socialist music scene
North Korea's pop stars may be cherry-picked by the Dear Leader and sing nothing but pro-revolutionary anthems, but they still know how to cause a stir ...
Pyongyang goes pop: Inside North Korea's first indie disco
Alex Hoban: For so long the Taedong Diplo – Pyongyang's only nightclub – owned just one CD. Then DJ Ian Steadman turned up with a box full of Hot Chip and Talking Heads records and things got messy
Pyongyang goes pop: A spy reviews Lethal Bizzle
North Korean radio consists largely of revolutionary anthems about being a diligent farmer. So what happened when our writer introduced Gallows, Lethal Bizzle and Coldplay to a local?
Pyongyang goes pop: How North Korea discovered Michael Jackson
Alex Hoban: Despite efforts to smuggle pop music into North Korea, most people still have no idea who Michael Jackson is. And sometimes the biggest fans turn out to be government spies ...
Pyongyang goes pop: Inside North Korea's music scene
Alex Hoban: For the first blog of our short series, our intrepid music reporter is put under house arrest with nothing but the EastEnders theme tune to listen to. That'll teach him not to pay bribes ...
