United Kingdom
Journalist, editor, copywriter.
Words past + present: The Guardian, NME, Alt Press, Huck, Kerrang!, Guitar Magazine, + more. Email: [email protected]
They've spent years toying with journalists, using fake names or sending actors to interviews. Now the ad guy behind the elusive Detroit band lifts the lid on the Armed multiverse
Wishy's 'Triple Seven' is a thrilling mix of dream-pop textures and shoegaze guitar bliss-outs that will hit people like a 40-minute headrush
Drain explore the origins and community behind their Good Good Tour with Scowl, Angel Du$t, End It, Terror, H2O, and more. Read the cover story interview.
at Flynn's scream of "U-S-M-A!" hangs in the air at the Underworld in Camden, London. A guy in a billowing white T-shirt dives from the stage and is held aloft by the crowd - a typically energetic snapshot from a hardcore show. Except that, on this occasion, it's not all that typical.
Following the breakout success of debut album Life Under the Gun, Militarie Gun's Ian Shelton reflects and looks forward. Read the interview.
hey essentially blew a fucking hole in the ceiling," Ben Spence says, with notes of anger and disbelief colouring the accompanying laugh. He is recounting the night in September 2020 when his studio, Fuzzbrain, was destroyed in a fire that spread from an adjoining industrial unit.
hen Glen "Spot" Lockett pointed his camera at something, he intended to capture what was there, not what he wanted you to see. "I paid attention to my subjects and what they were doing," he told Vice in 2014 while discussing Sounds of Two Eyes Opening, a book collecting his work.
With their back to the camera, Sami Kaiser is lit in that unmistakable fast food restaurant glow. It radiates out from the menu screens at the Sonic Drive-In in Hainesport, New Jersey as they hit their thigh with a mic, ratcheting up the tension as the tangle of bodies before them is taken over by the pit.
'Wasteland of my Fathers' is a new exhibition taking a vivid look into an under-reported chapter in punk's story.
The empty space between the barrier and the stage only stretches a few feet, but it says a lot about the perceived differences between an artist and their audience - or in many cases, a star and their fans. Hardcore shows have, at their most honest, always been a rejection of this power dynamic.