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5/5 The magnificent new exhibition Night Fever is a nostalgic lament for an industry long in decline – and it does have a silent disco 30 April 2021 • 12:01am Sub Club SoundSystem at BAaD, Glasgow Credit: Brian Sweeney Think of it as the antidote to lockdown gloom. With parts of the world still crushed by coronavirus, V&A Dundee’s new exhibition, about the post-war evolution of the modern nightclub, focuses on a different sort of “fever” altogether: the ecstatic delirium of nocturnal ...

Christian Eede , April 7th, 2021 13:27 Seasons is the latest instalment in the labels Documenting Sound series King Midas Sounds Roger Robinson has released a tape with his new band, The Black Space Quartet. Seasons marks Robinsons first release with the band, which comprises singer Ruby Jones and two members of Welsh dubstep collective LSN. It forms the latest instalment in Boomkat Editions ongoing Documenting Sound series, which was launched last year as an outlet for recordings produced du...

A contemporary art festival is expanding from London to take place across the country, from the Isle of Skye to Wales this summer. Art Night 2021 will take place in more than 10 locations around the United Kingdom including Abergavenny train station, Eastbourne, Leeds and Cambridge, while a series of commissions will unfold online. For the first time the festival, this year titled Nothing Compares 2 U, will take place for a month, running from June 18 to July 18. It will include a series of bil...

NEWS The Kooks: The way we dressed was genuinely a challenge to our own personal safety at times! 01 March 2021 Share with: The ninth episode of My Classic Album featured an exclusive interview with British indie-pop heroes The Kooks on their shimmering quadruple platinum debut album Inside In/Inside Out. Hosted by radio presenter and journalist Tina Edwards, the episode is Luke Pritchard and Hugh Harris embark on a personal exploration of the whirlwind of being catapulted to fame as a teenager...

The idea of the “road trip” is wrapped in mythology – from the writings of Jack Kerouac in the 1950s to Stephen Shore’s iconic 1970s photography. Take a deep dive into our archives and discover contemporary image-makers capturing life on the road. Endless highways, service stations and motel signs are illuminated by candy coloured skies and yellow street lights. Hayley Eichenbaum Hayley Eichenbaum (b. 1989) has journeyed across Route 66 in the American southwest multiple times. Th...

Since then, For k-punk—named after Fisher’s online alias and blog—has become an ongoing tribute event, organised by students at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he taught. DJ sets by UK-based creatives—last year’s edition included the artist Mark Leckey—mourn one of the pre-eminent voices of the radical left, who took his own life after a well-documented struggle with depression. Mark Fisher in 2014 © Paul Samuel White This year, due to Covid-19, For...

We Published Nearly 2,800 Stories in 2020. Here Are 22 of Our Favorites of the Year We take a look back at some of the most serious, most joyful, and most compelling stories of 2020 with a selection of staff favorites. December 29, 2020 A protester speaks to a crowd from the pedestal that once hosted the statue of Edward Colston. Photo by Giulia Spadafora/NurPhoto via Getty Images. There’s no way around it: it’s been a bruising year. The coronavirus pandemic taught us (as if we needed anoth...