Joe Muggs
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Joe has been writing about culture - and even more so about subculture - for just about every title under the sun for 25+ years. He's the author of three books about club / soundsystem history and his ongoing series of long-form interviews, with portraits by Brian David Stevens, is over on Bass, Mids, Tops and the Rest . He can be found DJing anywhere from bougie pub gardens to avante-garde noise cellars and is a militant Joni Mitchell fan.

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“She said her life was like a motorway… dull, grey, and long.” The lyrics of “Like a Motorway,” from Saint Etienne’s February 1994 album…
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Attending the tale of Sweeney Todd was my introduction to musical theatre. I was in my early 20s and a friend of mine had invited me to the…
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  Saxophobia: Celebrating the Sax Craze of the 1920s Chad Smith (alto and C-melody saxophones), Sinfonia of London/John Wilson (…
The only break in the flow comes just before the last song, “Toppling.” There’s a need to tune the guitar, so what – until this point – is…
These days, Alfie Agnew is a Maths professor at California State University Fullerton. Back in the 1980s, however, he was singer and…
It’s a sobering thought that had Marianela Nuñez joined the Paris Opéra Ballet at 16 instead of the Royal Ballet, she would have been…
Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is a love story whose heart has been torn open on barbed wire. Yes, that’s what it feels like. Sounds intense? Okay,…
For the current edition of the Venice Biennale, the Bulgarian Pavilion serves as the headquarters of The Federation of Minor Practices, a…