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Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Arab Strap
With their first new album in 16 years arriving this Friday, now is the perfect time to investigate Arab Strap and why they are one of the UK’s most beloved underground bands. They take Rob Hakimian through their discography, from regular weekends ‘on a permo’, to reckoning with the green-eyed monster, to their recent rejuvenation
A Quietus Interview
Summoning The Ancestors: Muqata’a Interviewed
Following the release of his new album Kamil Manqus, Adam Quarshie spoke to Palestinian hip hop producer and electronic musician Muqata’a about growing up under military occupation and making music as a way to preserve collective memory. Home page photograph by ROOT
Black Sky Thinking
BLM Beyond The M25: Jeffrey Boakye On Black Identity Outside London
It was only when Jeffrey Boakye moved out of London that he realised his sense of Black British identity was overly-rooted on the capital. Here, he explores two very different stories of Black life in Hull to argue that we need to look less to America while looking toward a deeper understanding of Black life at home
Low Culture Podcast
Low Culture Podcast Seven: Mariam Rezaei On Turntablism
The seventh in our subscriber only series of podcasts features Mariam Rezaei talking about the often misunderstood art of turntablism and the pros and cons of having one foot in the hip hop camp and one foot in the world of experimental music
Reviews
Lost Highway: Nick Cave And Warren Ellis’ ‘Carnage’ Reviewed
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' lockdown album, 'Carnage', is full of vast swings of emotion, strange shifts in reality, endless twists, and frustrating failures of momentum – an accurate reflection of the last year. Patrick Clarke reviews an often remarkable but occasionally exasperating new record
Electronic
Hyperspecific: Dance Music For February, Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel
Hyperspecific is back with the first instalment from our new columnist Jaša Bužinel, bringing you a selection of exciting new releases from Kode9, Autechre, Rian Treanor, Venus Ex Machina, Pauline Anna Strom and Giant Swan, among others
Black Sky Thinking
Risky Business: A Look Inside West Berlin’s Legendary Risiko Bar
When Aug Stone explored a rumour he’d heard about “Nick Cave’s Bar”, he found a joint where Blixa Bargeld bartended, bizarre performance art took place, and the drugs meant everyone kept drinking long into the morning
Film
Running Away: Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy In Gay Cinema
Bronski Beat's 1984 floor-filler 'Smalltown Boy' has travelled through cinema as a marker as gay cultural subjectivities since 1986's Parting Glances. Jack King maps the song's onscreen history and its reckoning with the queer tension between love and death
