Joe Muggs
Bio
Joe writes about culture for the likes of The Guardian, Bandcamp Daily, WIRE Magazine and Disco Pogo, specialising in electronic music, subculture in general, and the anything-but-grey areas where genres and media dissolve into one another. He is the author of Bass, Mids, Tops: an Oral History of Soundsystem Culture with photographer Brian David Stevens, Crosstown Rebels 20 Years of Madness, Magic & Music, and fabric - the 25th anniversary history of the legendary London nightclub - and his ongoing series of longform interviews, with more portraits by Stevens, can be found on BassMidsTopsandtheRest.
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