Strange and brilliant music scenes are thriving in fecund pockets of creativity across the UK - especially outside of London, where costs are lower, gentrification is slower and networks are stronger. Ahead of our tQ Future Forum panel this Thursday, Daniel Dylan Wray talks to musicians and industry stalwarts about surviving and thriving in the provinces.
As The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death turns 60, Will Snelling explores how the record's combination of bare-bones intimacy and haunting atmosphere, post modern edge and inherent tension loom large over myriad artists today
Ahead of FAKA's appearance at Rewire 2018, Desire Marea talks to Claire Sawers about the how the South African performance art duo are breaking new sonic ground with their infectious, fabulous, politicised mix of gqom, gospel and ancestral percussion