Writer/ idler/ photocopyist Richard Foster is about to publish his second auto fiction – The Punk Rock Birdwatching Club – this month. Here he outlines the credo of this pastime. Portraits by Nina Dörner Artist and writer Richard Foster is a regular contributor to this publication. He is the auth…
Youth Lagoon Rarely Do I Dream A box of old home movies provides a foil to the hushed voices and mangled guitar riffs on the latest chapter in the Boise, Idaho, artist's story Rarely Do I Dream by Youth Lagoon Shortly after rebooting Youth Lagoon, Trevor Powers found himself in his parents’ baseme…
Bernie Brooks talks to hometown heroes Moe and Andrew, the incendiary songwriting duo behind Dearborn, Michigan's up-and-coming noise rock quintet, Prostitute Photos by Trevor Naud "The oud sounds too bassy," the sexagenarian oudist says, nodding towards Moe, one of the founders of Dearborn, Michi…
With the publication of her new book Base Notes: The Scents of a Life, Adelle Stripe recalls the soundscape of her mother's hair salon Mid 1980s, hairdressing competition "fantasy" group, somewhere in the UK. From the personal archive of Adelle Stripe Back in the 1980s, the sound of my mother’s ha…
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