Nostalgia Blues: The Music of Cowboy Bebop
I’m watching tomorrow with one eye While keeping the other on yesterday. Shinichirō Watanabe’s Spike Spiegel has one critical affliction: his two eyes do not match. With the vision in one eye he sees the future, whilst the perception of his other eye is glossed over with colours of the past. Hi
Part One: The Sixth Extinction
The twenty-four haphazardly arranged blocks of ice deposited on the wet grey tarmac outside the Tate Modern present a peculiar sight. Familiar, yet alien to this space, the gargantuan lumps encourage curious onlookers to engage in strange, even bizarre ways. Some maintain a careful physical distance
Michael Kurtz
Michael Kurtz is a folk musician who has been featured on BBC Introducing in the East Midlands and BBC Radio 6. He’s currently an undergraduate at Oxford. In this interview, he talks about his creative process, the role of nostalgia in his music and the relationship between musicians and produ
Cyril Connolly and Horizon Magazine
Back in September, I was browsing The Last Bookshop on Walton Street when I came across a sun-damaged stack of Horizon magazines. The covers were simplistic; only the colour of the logo changed with each issue between brilliant greens, blues, pinks and purples. The economical design seemed
