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Presence Autochtone : Finding and Founding First Nation Culture in Montreal

13/08/2015

This year, Présence Autochtone (Montreal First Peoples Festival) celebrated its 25th anniversary of bringing the culture of the aboriginal people of Canada and the rest of the Americas, through...

Scenes & Sonics (National Gallery)

12/08/2015

Six very different musicians/sound artists/composers each select a work from the National's collection and create a soundtrack to accompany it....

No Ruinporn Here. Altstadt Echo Modern Cathedrals pt. 1 & 2

07/07/2015

Modern Cathedrals label founder Altstadt Echo steers between these two seductive poles, resisting the temptation to sonically contribute to the proliferation of Detroitian ruinporn ...

Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

19/06/2015

Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures....

Secret Gardens, Crests of Darkness and Goblin Metal.

11/06/2015

No filler. A roundup from the bleak plains of heavy metal, featuring Nekrogoblikon, Ecnephias, Crest of Darknessm Secrets of the Sky and Angra...

Sonically cosmic, if not slightly kosmische [Amon Tobin]

05/06/2015

Tobin modestly describes the release as a “small personal project”, but conceptually at least, it's a major release....

Craving acceptance [Dir En Grey]

21/05/2015

'I think that it’s really up to the listeners to determine what we are, not us.' ...

Serra Pelada Goldmine, Brazil, 1986, Sebastiao Salgado

Paddle8 Photograph Auction for Survival International

07/05/2015

Images donated by some of the world's best known photographers...

Mystical Moves, Dance and Freedom : Interview [Salah El Brogy]

06/05/2015

There’s a thriving dance community in the UK that really helps you keep that fire in your belly...

Describing Das Unheimliche. Interview: Davide Carbone/Honzo [Honzo]

03/05/2015

There is plenty of temporary music out there right now. The format does not matter but the intentions of the producers do. ...

We are watching your culture too. Captured

15/04/2015

Captured highlights the premise that embracing diversity is essential for the continued development of Native American art....

Language games across the checkmate of infinity

07/04/2015

These are not really poems, that's why I put the word poem in inverted commas in the title. ...

A mixture of figuration and abstraction. Interview [Bernie Clarkson]

28/03/2015

'It was such a surprise to win the trip and exactly the sort of prize I would have chosen for myself'...

Siena in all its least-known corners (Federico Pacini)

27/03/2015

Pacini photographs the off-season, with its overcast skies and grey suburban areas....

Make Better Music 73: Mindful Qualities

24/03/2015

Quality requires a mindfulness and quietness to allow ideas to form, take shape, emerge and grow...

Cannibalisation: recycling of recyclings of recyclings [Asmus Tietchens : Fahl]

18/03/2015

Does the strategy of infinite recycling accrue a new aesthetic or degrade the existing one?...

Solefald : World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud

20/01/2015

To say that they're referencing Dadaism or Situationism wouldn't be a cop out, but it wouldn't tell you anything either, and that is the danger of this record....

Arboretum : Royal West of England Academy

17/01/2015

Fittingly, many of the paintings also included in this show are left raw and unframed, exposed to the elements – and artistic scrutiny....

Donor : Against All

03/01/2015

Schappert takes material from the present-day and brings out the dystopian aspects of a much closer and less-glamourous dystopian future....

Nick Lord : Realising The Truth [Interview]

31/12/2014

When I first started to draw, I was massively influenced by the expressionists. Egon Schiele in particular. From them I learned the importance of breaking away from tradition...

Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

30/12/2014

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes...

Taylor Momsen, Acoustic [Live]

05/12/2014

When she chooses, Momsen has the ability to convey emotion, forgivably narcissistic emotion, but emotion nonetheless....

Mariachi El Bronx III

26/11/2014

Here they’ve taken the vernacular and made something contemporary and lasting...

Francesca Woodman II, 2014, oil on canvas, 200 x 170 cm, BREESE LITTLE

Tom de Freston : Orpheus and the Minotaur

24/11/2014

De Freston' s work has little to do with the emphatic and aggrandising tradition of history painting....

Terry Riley and Africa Express at Tate Modern [Film]

23/11/2014

Tate Modern and Africa Express present Terry Riley’s In C Mali is released online on 27 November at The Space...

Reeves Gabrels [Interview]

22/11/2014

Reeves Gabrels, currently guitarist in The Cure and formerly David Bowie’s collaborator in Tin Machine, interviewed...

Steve Rothery : Bush Hall [Live]

20/11/2014

The closest thing to Fish-era Marillion in their mid-80s prime as you're likely to get...

Adam X : Irreformable

17/11/2014

Adam X is open and unashamed about his industrial/EBM connections, in sad contrast to some other producers...

Late Rembrandt

14/11/2014

The Rembrandt in the paintings at the National Gallery... is a man who suffered: as a victim of unfortunate tragedies, and as a result of personal flaws....