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Sight Lines & Separations: Recording Killing Joke’s Debut Album
Author Chris Bryans' new book is an oral history of the group Killing Joke. In the following exclusive extract, band members Youth and Geordie Walker, engineer Phil Harding, and sleeve designer Mike Coles recall the making of their eponymous debut
Art
From Zap To Zwirner: Robert Crumb’s Comix Legacy
While Robert Crumb’s style and dedication to his generation’s underground comix artists has inspired a huge array of artists from a variety of backgrounds and of numerous identities, for decades his depictions and framing of women and his adoption of racist stereotypes have been under fire
Baker's Dozen
Speaking Rhythms: Valentina Magaletti’s Baker’s Dozen
Prolific drummer and collaborator Valentina Magaletti marks the release of Tomaga's finest album by telling Jennifer Lucy Allan about her favourite 13 albums, from The Cure to Miles Davis, Art Blakey, and Can to Deerhoof, This Heat and the Art Ensemble Of Chicago. Photo by Adele di Nunzio
Electronic
Hyperspecific: Dance Music For March Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel
In his second installment of Hyperspecific for 2021, Jaša Bužinel discusses the recent club safety measures suggested by the UK government from a wider European perspective, and reviews exciting new music from ZULI, Speaker Music, VTSS and object blue
Anniversary
Revelling In Failure: Bruce Springsteen’s Shut The Fuck Up Tour
25 years ago The Boss played Brixton Academy as part of his least successful tour since his first but, says, Liam Inscoe-Jones, while he may have been underperforming catastrophically in financial terms, this was also a time of creative rebirth
Black Sky Thinking
Hot Stew & Literary Gentrification: Sex Workers Respond
Fiona Mozley’s Hot Stew has been praised for its exploration of a changing Soho , but Victoria Holt argues that the novel erases the reality of sex worker life, becoming a form of the gentrification it seeks to condemn. Photos thanks to Juno Mac
