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Michael Appouh , March 4th, 2021 09:40 How To Move, the debut EP from sometime Flamingods and Warmduscher collaborator Nuha Ruby Ra, is a slap in the face of convention, finds Michael Appouh For Nuha Ruby Ra, breaking norms is a way to move forward. To transgress and to progress. Resistance and creation are folded into the cultures of punk. To see a boundary not as a warning but an invitation to smash, break, destroy, and move through is as central a tenet to it as the DIY ethos that singles out an artist as a part of the scene. Already compared to the likes of Björk and Skunk Anansie, the Bedford-born and London-based artist finds herself in opposition to many things in ....
Christian Eede , March 4th, 2021 14:07 Chicago-based gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey will host the exhibition while there will also be a special 7 vinyl release Sun Ra s poetry is to be celebrated in a new exhibition at Chicago gallery Corbett vs. Dempsey. Sun Ra, The Substitute Words: Poetry, 1957-72 will use literary objects from Sun Ra s own collection, as well as various archival material to considering Sun Ra s poetry on its own terms and in the context of the artist s innovative DIY methods. In addition to the exhibition, the gallery will also oversee the release of four books alongside the exhibition. Two of the books were originally made available alongside vinyl releases – ....
Various Artists Fergal Kinney , March 4th, 2021 09:40 A compilation of space age prog and disco novelties curated by Jon Savage recalls an era when the future was still something to look forward to A recent Sunday broadsheet interview with the former rock critic Nick Kent raised eyebrows for his assertion that he stopped writing about music in 2007 as “there was no mystery, and rock’n’roll needs mystery.” Like Principal Skinner in black leather and a beanie hat, Kent had assessed the landscape and come to the shock conclusion that it was the kids who were wrong. I couldn’t find the statement annoying, though, as some did, as it cemented what was quite obvious when I read Kent’s anthology ....
JR Moores , March 4th, 2021 13:58 As Part Chimp announce their latest album Drool, due on June 4, the band s singer, guitarist and self-appointed nagger-in-chief Tim Cedar talks to JR Moores about invertebrates and Ringo Starr. Feature contains video for new track, Back From The Dead Part Chimp portraits by Steve Gullick Part Chimp occupy semi-mythical status in the canon of heavy, messy British rock. Don t get me wrong. They are human beings who are possible to contact, have a normal conversation with and purchase merch from at a small table. It s not like they re manticores or anything. It s more in the way people speak about Part Chimp, in such hallowed terms. (Well, as hallowed as they can do because – pre-Covid at least – such people tended to be imparting their Part Chimp fables while sloshing their pint of snakebite around with gesticular vigour, frothing a little at the mouth and shouting over a classic Electric Wizard track before Teeth Of The Sea to ....