The astral hip hop of Seattle's Shabazz Palaces conjures up a disorienting and thrilling patchwork of shifting moods and sensations. Laura Snoad speaks to vocalist Ishmael Butler about new album Lese Majesty, the science fiction of Octavia Butler, and the importance of ambiguity
The astral hip hop of Seattle's Shabazz Palaces conjures up a disorienting and thrilling patchwork of shifting moods and sensations. Laura Snoad speaks to vocalist Ishmael Butler about new album Lese Majesty, the science fiction of Octavia Butler, and the importance of ambiguity
With his recent DRKLNG mixtape, New York rapper Zebra Katz followed up last year's freakily infectious 'Ima Read' in similarly sinister, sub-loaded style. Laura Snoad met up with him to discuss investigations of language and the eternal appeal of bass
With his recent DRKLNG mixtape, New York rapper Zebra Katz followed up last year's freakily infectious 'Ima Read' in similarly sinister, sub-loaded style. Laura Snoad met up with him to discuss investigations of language and the eternal appeal of bass
Joshua White's Joshua Light Show was an iconic visual presence in the sixties and seventies, accompanying performances by the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. Laura Snoad spoke to him ahead of his recent Light Show with Oneohtrix Point Never
Joshua White's Joshua Light Show was an iconic visual presence in the sixties and seventies, accompanying performances by the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. Laura Snoad spoke to him ahead of his recent Light Show with Oneohtrix Point Never
A new boxset from England's notorious "wreckers of civlization" gathers together live recordings and unreleased studio material from the time of their brief mid-00s reunion. Dale Cornish finds the group as wonderfully indigestible as ever
With a post punk pedigree that stretches back to the origins of 4AD, The Wolfgang Press have made their first album for nearly 30 years, and the only thing it has in common with its predecessors is that it sounds nothing like them, they tell Wesley Doyle