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Betty Davis was a mover and a shaker in the Greenwich Village of the late-1960s, she was a great musician but was also politically, sexually and sonically progressive, an explosive mix that was too much for many people in her own day. Words by John Doran
Kill Alters’ Bonnie Baxter and Nicos Kennedy discuss the their new album Armed To The Teeth, a record long in the making and plagued with setbacks, that processes deep personal trauma into blisteringly powerful music. CW: Contains mention of child sexual abuse
In an epic Baker’s Dozen, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe lets Stewart Smith into the secrets of his Candyman soundtrack, and celebrates Black excellence from Don Cherry to Moor Mother, Olly W. Wilson to Pamela Z
Peter Margasak hopes the music covered here doesn’t just suggest a high bar qualitatively for the year ahead, but that it also signals the worst is behind us, as many of these recordings are imbued with the sort of driving, triumphant spirit that we need to help us get back on our feet
With the artist's first exhibition in London for thirty years, Selected Works, currently open at David Zwirner, Amah-Rose Abrams explores the legacy of photographer Roy DeCarava and speaks to his widow, the art historian Sherry Turner DeCarava
We're delighted that Siavash Amini, who we've been a fan of for some time, has composed a Singularity track for our Sound & Vision subscribers. Here he tells Patrick Clarke about two of his influences, the Comte de Lautréamont and Eugene Thacker