Adam Lehrer

Powell’s Books: A Baker’s Dozen Special Edition

Electronic music producer Powell picks favourite books by Baudrillard, Derrida, Kafka, and Susan Sontag

John Foxx And The Maths

Howl

John Foxx and the Maths find strength in pop on new album, Howl, finds Adam Lehrer

The Embers Of Decades: Ashtray Navigations Interviewed

Adam Lehrer talks to Phil Todd and Mel Ó Dubhshláine about the release of an expansive anthology charting almost 30 years' work by cult psychedelic band, Ashtray Navigations

Genre Is Obsolete: Adam Lehrer On Noise, Industrial & Drone For July

In this month’s Genre is Obsolete, Adam Lehrer dives into new records by artists like GRIM, Crazy Doberman, Dial and more, while discussing noise music’s enduring status as an unusually independent and DIY economy and culture

Einstürzende Neubauten

Alles in Allem

Genre Is Obsolete: Noise, Industrial & Drone etc. Reviewed By Adam Lehrer

In the fluid chaos and genre bastardization of noise, industrial, drone, no wave, and numerous forms of warped electronic music, Adam Lehrer finds an appropriate artistic embodiment of the condition of liquid modernity

Night Of The Hunters: Guy Maddin On Resurrecting Federico Fellini

With his new short film The Rabbit Hunters, filmmaker Guy Maddin explores both his own fascination with dreams and ghosts, and resurrects those of another seminal artist: Federico Fellini. Adam Lehrer finds out more

Dangerous Visions: Type II By Sex Swing

The new Sex Swing album may be punishing and disquieting, but there is a point to all the sickness and gore, finds Adam Lehrer

Mark Dicker

Carrier Waves

Formerly of Trencher and Palehorse, Mark Dicker's Carrier Waves project provides a soundtrack to the end of time, finds Adam Lehrer

Violence Is Everyone: An Interview With Jordan Wolfson

Following his recent show at Sadie Coles' London HQ, artist Jordan Wolfson talks to Adam Lehrer about violence, audience, and courting controversy

I Think That’s The Lot: Mark E Smith Signs Off On Jan St Werner’s New Album

Formed around a core originally recorded in 2014 at the Cornerhouse, Manchester, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars channels the voice of the late Fall frontman on Molocular Meditation, with uncanny results, finds Adam Lehrer

The Strange World Of… Tom Smith/ To Live And Shave In LA

The conceptual conceit of TLASILA is founded upon dedication to chaos, sleaze, hedonism, and libidinal materialism, says Adam Lehrer, on speaking to idiosyncratic poet and contemporary druid, Tom Smith

OvO

Miasma

Nine albums in, Italian experimental rockers OvO are making highly enjoyable music, dark and heavy as it comes, finds Adam Lehrer

Material Decay: Ryan Foerster’s Accursed Share

At Clearing, Brooklyn, artist Ryan Foerster documents the decay of the modern world

Royal Trux

Quantum Entanglement

Listening to their new greatest hits collection on Fat Possum, Adam Lehrer asks, do we really need any more Royal Trux?

Rival Dreamer: Burial’s Tunes, 2011 to 2019

Beneath the crackle and hiss, Adam Lehrer finds a portal to a better future in a new compilation of Burial's 12"s and EPs

Bill Orcutt

Odds Against Tomorrow

Bill Orcutt goes electric and discovers multi-tracking on new album *Odds Against Tomorrow*. The results are denser, lusher, and quite beautiful, finds Adam Lehrer

William Doyle

Your Wilderness Revisited

On new album *Your Wilderness Revisited*, William Doyle hymns the beauty of the suburbs, finds Adam Lehrer

Mayhem

Daemon

The new album by Mayhem finds the black metal pioneers re-treading old paths, finds Adam Lehrer

FKA Twigs

MAGDALENE

On her new album *MAGDALENE*, FKA twigs tempers her ferocity with a radical sensitivity, finds Adam Lehrer

LINGUA IGNOTA Channels The Spirit Of Kathy Acker Live

On her new album CALIGULA and the performances behind it, the Providence-based extreme musician LINGUA IGNOTA shares more than a passing similarity with the late transgressive fiction writer Kathy Acker, says Adam Lehrer, reporting from Brooklyn

Look At My Beef Art: Works On Paper By Don Van Vliet

An exhibition at Michael Werner's New York gallery looks at works on paper in watercolour, gouache, and coloured pencil, by American outsider icon Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart

The Space For A Certain Energy: Mehryl Levisse Interviewed

French artist Mehryl Levisse talks dreams, memories, and reflections, the body and the space

Radicalism Comes From Content: Steven Parrino In Dallas

In an abandoned warehouse in Dallas, Adam Lehrer re-examines the legacy of punk rock artist Steven Parrino

“Dialogue Is Our Ceremony”: An Interview With Postcommodity

With work currently on show at the Whitney Biennial and Brooklyn's Art in General, Adam Lehrer talks to Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist of interdisciplinary arts collective, Postcommodity

Sex Positive: Betty Tompkins’ Virgins In New York

Adam Lehrer explores the explicit pleasures of Betty Tompkins' Virgins show at P Pow Gallery