Catch up on our latest writing.
Hans Appelqvist’s latest stage show, which shows at Intonal festival, Malmö, Sweden, explores a controversial Japanese horror in the context of a first date. Matthew Neale talks to the Swedish artist about pornography, body genres, and why art doesn’t need to be therapeutic. Contains spoilers for film and show
Red Bull have announced the end of their well-loved music platform RBMA, after over 20 years of operation. Ed Gillett looks at how this decision fits into a wider pattern of narrowing, frailty and loss across digital music communities.
In spite of a gradually accelerating reappraisal, a full portrait of composer Julius Eastman will most likely never surface, says Aimee Armstrong. Instead we’re left to track him through anecdotes, odd photographs and his politically charged and aggressively honest personal composition. A preview for this year's Intonal Festival.
Sun Ra and Alice Coltrane become accelerating vectors , fast-forwarding jazz to new worlds on the new Comet is Coming album. But Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery could appeal just as well to clubbers, grime fans and football hooligans, finds Mike Vinti
The release of a new version of Górecki’s Symphony No. 3 with vocals from Portishead’s Beth Gibbons is cleverly timed, says Phil Hebblethwaite. When the piece was first a hit in the early-90s, it offered respite at a similarly turbulent moment in history
Sean Kitching talks to Olivia Tremor Control co-founder, Will Cullen Hart, about re-injecting the psychedelic into 60s psych pop and the less immediately apparent influences that inspired The Olivia Tremor Control’s 1999 magnum opus, Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One