Low Culture is a new series where tQ writers use lockdown time to pull some of their favourite music, films, games and books off the shelves in order to tackle an idea that's been bugging them for a long time. In the first instalment John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale
From lockdown in Newcastle, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington have released over thirty new albums and counting under the new moniker Bulbils in an effort to cope with the coronavirus crisis. They tell Patrick Clarke the story of their beautiful new band.
Joni Mitchell's sixth album was a change of gear, coming deep from within the ME decade, its romantic entanglements dissolving to reveal a deeper search within but far from being solipsistic Mitchell’s rumination strikes a universal chord, says Matthew Lindsay