Catch up on our latest writing.
This month Tristan Bath delves into the past with a review of a new cassette of undiscovered work by Daphne Oram, new music from former Medicine man Brad Laner, returning London psych group Lasers From Atlantis, footwork from DJ Fullton, strange Japanese synth project mus.hiba and electronics from Petrels
After the curtain fell on The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's second act, that band's Andy Huxley and Sym Gharial began writing songs together. They tell Jeremy Allen about the innate weirdness of their brand of pop music and why Piano Wire are TEMBD's "spiritual heir"
Emily Berry speaks to Spanish poet, editor and journalist Luna Miguel - via a translation by Electric Cereal editor Luis Silva - about the personal significance of mermaids and tattoos, life, death, community, why inspiration is like orgasm, and guts of both the metaphorical and literal sorts. (Photograph by Laura Rosal)
Tim MacGabhann, Mariana Rodríguez and John Z. Komurki — Editors of Mexico City Lit — consider racial and gender exclusivity, cultural appropriation and erasure in the light of Kenneth Goldsmith's 'Body of Michael Brown', Vanessa Place's Mammy-toting twitter feed and the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo
Island-dwelling outsider musician and One More Grain brain Daniel Patrick Quinn tells us about his 13 favourite albums from Suede to Fela Kuti, Nico to Robert Wyatt and Gamelan to ELO, plus the sound of a snipe drumming, and wonders whether he'd have sexual feelings for Jeff Lynne were he a woman.
The prolific musician, artist, film-maker, author and co-founder of the Berlin Love Parade has recently released her debut solo album, Tacoma. She tells Sand Avidar how the nomadic lifestyle she shares with husband Alexander Hacke and a return to her hometown shaped the record