Basement Five

Musicity

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From Nick Luscombe's Musicity sound-art project, an inclusive, eclectic and very very moreish new album

Ohhh! Vienna: Writer Lewis Crofts On Egon Schiele

This spring, a new exhibition of rare drawings and watercolours by Austrian artist Egon Schiele will open at Richard Nagy in Mayfair. In anticipation of that unveiling, Christiana Spens interviews Lewis Crofts, the author of The Pornographer of Vienna, a novel based on the tumultuous life of the artist.

Discomfort Zone: An Interview With Mary Epworth

Mary Epworth tells John Freeman why the sonic reboot of second album, Elytral, was inspired by a desire to be “out of her depth” and resulted in a musical epiphany and an unique new sound

Julianna Barwick Shares New Track With Jónsi

'In Light' is the second song to be unveiled from her new album, 'Healing Is A Miracle'

Ultramarine

Send and Return

The moods and movements of the Thames estuary, recorded on a boat in 2020, leaves Johny Lamb impressed for yearning for more darkness

Masculinising Spaces: Inside The Seduction Industry

In an edited extract from her book Seduction: Men, Masculinity and Mediated Intimacy, sociologist Rachel O’Neill explores the way an industry based on the promise of sexual access reconfigures men’s relationships with women – and with other men

We Need To Talk About Griffin: Daniel Trilling On The Far Right

In the wake of the EDL's disastrous Walthamstow march and Nick Griffin's well-earned Twitter suspension the author and journalist puts in to context the rise of far right politics, fascism and outright racism in a supposedly multicultural modern-day Britain

Spool’s Out, Slight Return: May’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath, Part II

In the second half of Tristan Bath's monthly cassettes round-up, he takes a tour through new releases of long-form Italian drone, Belgian black metal and clarinet-led experimentation from Chicago

Columnus Metallicus – Prising The Metal Out Of Your Cold, Dead Hands

Cut him - he bleeds metal. Well actually he doesn't, he goes 'Ow' and starts crying, but Toby Cook is still more metal than you. Unless you're Joey De Maio

Grenfell Tower Benefit Event At Cafe Oto Next Weekend

Aisha Orazbayeva, Beatrice Dillon and more take part in benefit event for victims of the disaster

LISTEN: New Total Control

Australian band Total Control share a track from their first release in three years

Silence As Mantra: Hannah Lou Clark Interviewed

With last year's Silent Type EP, Hannah Lou Clark left behind the theatrics of her old band FOE in favour of sparse introversion. She talks to Alex Robert Ross about presenting her songs in plain terms and writing for catharsis

WATCH: New Chelsea Wolfe Video

It's not all fun and games in California, you know...

Wild Nothing

Nocturne

WATCH: Ben ‘The Rebel’ Wallers Interview

Alastair Shuttleworth talks to Country Teasers frontman in NSFW interview; watch below

Lethal Bizzle Announces UK Tour

October dates announced