Catch up on our latest writing.
Amber Medland's new book Wild Pets is "an instant set text of the emerging canon of millennial fiction" (*The Guardian*). In this exclusive essay for the Quietus, she talks about campus rape culture and teaching masculinity in the classroom
In their first interview about their chaotic new album Deep States, Tropical Fuck Storm’s Gareth Liddiard and Fiona Kitschin speak to Patrick Clarke about their ideal apocalypses, their disdain for hackneyed rock & roll tropes, and why their music has more heart and soul than you might think
In his latest French music column, David McKenna gets reacquainted with nouvelle nouvelle chanson singer Mathieu Boogaerts, visits producer NSDOS’s Micro Club and finds energy in the young French jazz scene to rival that in the UK. Home page photograph: Edredon Sensible
Following a family tragedy, Berlin-based producer Nene H combined modular synthesis with the instruments of her native Turkey to produce her debut album, a powerful sonic document of healing. She talks to Adam Quarshie about balancing conflicting identities and the confines of classical music
Eugene Chadbourne, one of the most absurdly prolific left-field musicians of all time, takes Patrick Clarke through his storied career - from his time as an acerbic gig reviewer in Canada while fleeing the Vietnam War draft, to his typically freewheeling new record with Jim McHugh, Bad Scene
In our monthly subscriber-only essay, writer Paul Flynn describes being handed a flyer for an unusual literary event which acts as a madeleine, casting him back to the 1980s, and a sexual and sonic awakening. Detail from the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt photographed by the author