While Robert Crumb’s style and dedication to his generation’s underground comix artists has inspired a huge array of artists from a variety of backgrounds and of numerous identities, for decades his depictions and framing of women and his adoption of racist stereotypes have been under fire
Our series of articles curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin continues with a Baker's Dozen from Mika Vainio, solo artist and former member of Pansonic. He tells us about how the likes of Suicide, Neubauten, the Alex Harvey Band, King Crimson and more soundtracked a life of working in slaughterhouses and vegetarian restaurants
The success of Record Store Day has come at the price of manufacturing backlogs at the US and Europe's few remaining pressing plants. Lauren Martin visits GZ Media in the Czech Republic and speaks to UK company Keyproduction to look at the manufacturing process of vinyl and find out how they work to meet increasing demand