Catch up on our latest writing.
Featuring more than a hundred artists from twenty-one different countries, Tom Buchanan’s *Out of the Box* celebrates the significance of objects and the lost art of collecting. Here, the author talks us through eight of its subjects, including Richard Johnson, Nancy Fouts, and Mohamed Hafez
Newly unearthed archival recordings of live dates from the 1960s, a profound homage to the swing-and-drag aesthetic of drummer Paul Motian from former collaborators, a new quintet from the veteran Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, and a thrumming quintet session from drummer Tom Skinner of The Smile are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
The nine-piece folk ensemble Shovel Dance Collective speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about their bold new album exploring the extremes of humanity’s relationship with water, and why progression and tradition need not be opposites
In the first of our subscriber-exclusive Low Culture essays, Adelle Stripe opens her battered copy of Julian Cope's The Modern Antiquarian and argues that this guide to Britain's neolithic remains has a strikingly modern relevance
Daryl Worthington speaks to a tape label expanding the possibilities of footwork, and reviews some of the most intriguing tapes of the Autumn, from world-building electronics to light triggered synthesis and a trumpet/cello/drums power trio
Bingo Fury speaks to Isabel Armitage about creating an atonal melting pot in the middle ground between Neil Young and John Cage, the influence of his native Bristol after dark, and whether or not it is finally time to quit Spotify