Having initially been in publication from 1975 – 1979, with just six issues per year, Musics was an interdisciplinary journal rooted in a true DIY ethic. With 1975’s first issue described as “an impromental experivisation arts magazine”, the magazine focused…
You probably don’t need reminding that the world is falling to pieces right now, so here’s a handy playlist you can whack on whilst you’re pretending everything’s totally fine and okay forever… PINS – ‘Aggrophobe (feat. Iggy Pop)’ Cool-as-fuck…
Rating: If Joseph Coward’s first album (2014’s self-reflexively titled The World Famous…) addressed crises of faith, redemption and an ultimate deal with God then this follow-up raises the stakes by articulating themes of rejection, unhappy finality, new beginnings, lamentable actions…
From the time James Brown appeared as Bart’s inner child, encouraging the young character to just ‘be himself’, to the time Johnny Cash voiced a red coyote in the sky whilst Homer was experiencing a magnificent psychedelic trip after eating a…
Rating: My Cruel Goro‘s eponymous debut EP is bursting with noisy, riff-laden, alternative-rock tracks that will make even the most reluctant fan start throwing themselves around like an angst-ridden teenager. The band hail from both Iceland and Italy, and formed…
“So, what’s it like to be a girl in a band?” This is the question the English press would repeatedly ask Kim Gordon (and one quoted in 2009’s ‘Sacred Trickster’) when Sonic Youth were starting out, and one which she seeks to…
“I wanna know the exact dimensions of hell”, Kim Gordon sang on Sonic Youth’s 1988 album Daydream Nation. Visual artist, musician, fashion icon and inspiration for generations of teenage girls, there’s plenty to say about the no wave queen, so…