Thurston Moore
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A Quietus Interview
Country Cousin: Thurston Moore On The Power Of The 12 String
Ahead of the ambitious Galaxies 12x12 project at the Barbican on April 14, Thurston Moore talks to John Doran about why he has formed an orchestra of 12 strings and how this relates to Sun Ra, Glenn Branca and his roots in No Wave...
Black Sky Thinking
I’m One Of 1000 UK Artists Boycotting Israel. Here’s Why
As Thurston Moore, Miss Lauryn Hill and Primus become the latest to cancel shows in Tel Aviv, British-Palestinian musician Samir Eskanda makes the case for the boycott, with contributions from Moore and Jean-Hervé Peron of Faust. Photos by Valerio Berdini
In Conversation
“We Came From Outside”: Thurston Moore & Mark Stewart In Conversation
As The Pop Group prepare to release their first album in over three decades, Bobby Barry brings together the band's Mark Stewart with mutual fan (and fellow cloud-botherer) Thurston Moore to discuss punk, properness and Primark. Photographs courtesy of Chiara Meattelli
A Quietus Interview
N16age Riot: Thurston Moore On Stoke Newington Life
To mark his appearance at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, we reprint an extract from New Humanist Magazine pamphlet On Community where Thurston Moore writes of his love of and life in the London area of Stoke Newington. Thurston in Abney Park cemetery photograph by Peter Beste, excellent headline by Rory Phillips
A Quietus Interview
Resurrection & Revenge: Michael Chapman Interviewed
Michael Chapman's is a remarkable tale: a singer/guitarist veteran of the '60s who last decade connected with US artists such as Thurston Moore and Jack Rose and started making beautiful and exploratory, improvisational music. Ahead of his performance at Supernormal Festival, he tells Russ Slater about staring at woodpiles and why he hates being called 'folk'
News 47
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Calling Occupant Of Interplanetary Craft: Matias Aguayo Interviewed
Chilean producer and DJ Aguayo has always danced to a different beat but with his fifth album he’s inventing extraterrestrial rhythms for another planet. Kate Hutchinson catches up with the dance music outsider in Colombia to talk about his post-colonial vision for electronic music
Black Sky Thinking
How to Talk to your Son about Dangerous Extremist Influencers
With TV drama Adolescence and Andrew Tate currently in the news, author Craig Johnson asks how the toxic ideology extremist influencers became so widespread and offers practical advice to help young people affected. CW: Reference to sexual assault and violence against women. Contains mild spoilers for Adolescence. Stills courtesy of Netflix
Books
Portraits of the Artist: Künstlerromane in an Age of Uncertainty
From Goethe to Novalis, nineteenth-century novels about artists offered stories about self-invention and self-discovery, but what happens to the artist-protagonist in an age where no-one any longer feels in control of their own destiny? Gabrielle Sicam looks to recent books by Anika Jade Levy, Brandon Taylor and Stephanie Wambugu
