Medusa: Rare and Unreleased Recordings from the Mexican Underground, 1973–1997
Medusa began in Mexico City in 1972, during one of the most difficult periods in the country’s modern history. The student movement of 1968 and the Halconazo massacre...
Klemen Breznikar
You Can’t Franchise Devotion: Inside Japan’s Jazz Kissa
Jazz kissa are often presented outside Japan as mysterious places governed by strict habits and an almost religious attitude towards sound. That image is not entirely false, but...
Joachim Kühn: “The Best Improvisation Happens When Your Head Is Completely Empty”
Joachim Kühn has spent more than six decades pursuing musical freedom, but the freedom in his playing has always been founded on discipline. Born in Leipzig in 1944,...
Les Rallizes Dénudés and Japan’s Psychedelic Underground: Makoto Kubota on Takashi Mizutani, ‘Disque 4’ and the Lost Years
For most of their existence, the Japanese band Les Rallizes Dénudés left remarkably little official evidence behind them. Their music circulated through copied tapes, bootlegs and incomplete live...
Sister Double Happiness Interview: Gary Floyd, the San Francisco Underground and the 1988 Debut
Sister Double Happiness formed in San Francisco in the second half of the 1980s. Gary Floyd and Lynn Perko-Truell had previously played together in the Dicks, while guitarist...
Michael Brook Interview: ‘Cobalt Blue’, the Infinite Guitar and Panning for Gold
Michael Brook has spent much of his career discovering new possibilities within familiar instruments. His development of the Infinite Guitar expanded the expressive range of the electric guitar,...
the FVL. Interview: Reimagining a Lost Civilization Through ‘Land of Siesta’
Taiwanese experimental electronic project the FVL. brings together Hom Yu of psychedelic duo Mong Tong and sound designer and audiovisual artist Chiayu. Formed in 2024, the project’s debut...
The Burgers Interview: ‘Bedroom’ and Who Decided That One Person Cannot Make Punk Music?
The Burgers did not come together in the usual way one might expect of a punk band. Well, as it turned out, the early plans for a proper...
Kira Roessler on Her New Album ‘Enigma,’ Black Flag and dos
Kira Roessler is best known for her work with Black Flag and dos, but her second solo album, ‘Enigma,’ stands apart from both. Released by Org Music on...
Toody Cole Interview: Dead Moon, Fred Cole and Doing It Their Own Way
There are not many bands like Dead Moon. There was no manager creating an image and no plan behind it all. They were a band that lived what...