_Skeletons_, showing this week at the Branchage Film Festival, is a quirky and surreal comedy with a strong, very British pedigree. Daniel Nixon wonders why it’s so hard for the mainstream British film press to promote more homegrown gems like this.
Ahead of Rewire festival Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the Swedish artist, musician and composer about prison hauntings, being thrown out of bible study, collectivity in music making and the power of the drone to alter perceptions of time and place
The fictional band from The Eccentronic Research Council's last album are not only real, but they're going on tour and releasing records. Two of their animating architects, The ERC's Adrian Flanagan and Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi, sit down with Daniel Dylan Wray to discuss working with Sean Lennon, masochistic video shoots and bringing back rabies
The Alien Territory Archives: A Collection of Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music from 1970s San Diego
Featuring music by Pauline Oliveros, Harry Partch, Diamanda Galás, David Dunn and others, this compilation of experiments from 1970s Southern California is an essential collection, finds Antonio Poscic