Ahead of their show at Bristol New Music, Bill Orcutt, Steve Shelley and Ethan Miller tell Jennifer Lucy Allan how a Grateful Dead tribute show led to their acclaimed new collaboration, the joy of bootlegs, and how they're avoiding the ego-driven pitfalls that have dogged supergroups past
Forty years since the release of Akim & the Teddy Vann Production Company's 'Santa Claus Is A Black Man', Marc Burrows speaks to Akim about her father's work to empower and provide positive imagery for young black people in the US