The video for Hide’s latest single Chainsaw ends with an all-caps message RAPE CULTURE KILLS and an audio sample of someone retching and dribbling into a toilet. It’s a grotesque scene, but Hide don’t shy […]
Outro Tempo II: sounds from the early Brazilian electronic underground
A few months ago, Jack Carolan laid out a Brazilian music primer based on record-hunting in São Paulo, the third biggest city on Earth. He described the ear- and eye-melting task of trying to navigate […]
All the right noises: May 2019 in 20 tracks
Come for the post-human electronics and synthwave, stay for the cosmic jazz, abject noise, punk, transcendent techno and malevolent grime, then leave after some wispy ambience and field recordings. Here’s the soundtrack of May 2019… […]
The Black Madonna interview: ‘I was radicalised pretty early
“I certainly have a little dragon lady in me,” the Black Madonna says over the phone, laughing. It’s a few days after the Game of Thrones finale with half the world losing the plot, but […]
Corin Tucker interview: ‘Become part of the protest’
There’s been no shortage of anti-Trump songs since the 2016 US Presidential election, ranging from tongue in cheek side-swipes like Fiona Apple’s Tiny Hands, to rapper YG’s very much on the nose FDT (Fuck Donald […]
‘Seven women fighting over a cowbell’: The 80s No Wave art-punk weirdness of Pulsallama
Ronald Reagan’s election in 1980 not only cemented the socio-economic foundations of just about everything that is wrong with the West, it also coincided with a short-lived epoch of unfettered creativity in New York City. […]
Cause and effects: An interview with Åmnfx
It’s not often you stumble on an ambient performance in a bookshop, but Tallinn Music Week is known for its, ahem, novel bookings, and Åmnfx was one of the many highlights of the Estonian showcase […]
