by Ushara Dilrukshan This year’s London Contemporary Music Festival (LCMF) transformed St John’s Church in Hackney into a hub of experimental sound, culminating in a stunning finale at Wigmore Hall on January 17th with Éliane Radigue’s OCCAM DELTA XXIII. In this review we delve into two highlights: Russell Haswell’s provocative The Truth Is As Elusive As Ever […]

I met Reginald BoClair in May 2023, through the Prison + Neighborhood Arts/Education Project Justice, Policy, and Culture Think Tank at Stateville Correctional Center in Illinois. Reginald and I bonded over shared interests in political philosophy, Chicago house music, and seeking the abolition of the US prison industrial complex. In this piece, Reginald leverages his […]

Saturday 14th of December If ‘all art is political’, as we’ve grown accustomed to hearing, then what are the politics of bubblegum pop? Of the chirpy sincerity of early Beatles love songs, or of the hyperproduced hot-mess aesthetics of the instant-classic of the summer, Charli XCX’s BRAT? These are the questions that Nicholas Mroczkowski (Nicko) […]

Contributor Josefus Haze caught Bohren & Der Club of Gore at Union Chapel last Friday, where the German doom jazz outfit performed their latest album Patchouli Blue in full. Here’s his take on what went down in one of London’s most distinctive venues. Earth has many holy places. Natural or manmade, these are sites that […]

Summer is a distant memory, festival season is well and truly over, save for a few who’ve kept the party going until the lights come on to usher us into the depths of autumn. For the second year running, we’ve had the pleasure of documenting one of our, and seemingly your, favourite festivals; none other […]

Arthur Schopenhauer said that all arts aspire to the condition of music, meaning that among the arts, music is all but alone in allowing the artist to appeal to their audience directly, without the intervention of a medium of communication in common use for other purposes. (Paraphrased from The Meaning of Art, by Herbert Read) […]