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Inspired by a resurgence in the Arts Lab movement, and a year in lockdown – we’ve
collaborated with some of the finest creative minds and put together a deliciously good
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08/11/2023

“You need to leave room for people to form their own bonds with the work itself and recognise that the work is not something you can control once it’s out there, and that’s where the real power is.”

New interview with J. Willgoose, Esq. of Public Service Broadcasting talking about their Royal Albert Hall performance with the and of “This New Noise”, technology, perfectionism, future of cities, climate, community projects, generational cohesion, music as an agent for change and forming real emotional, long lasting bonds with music

https://mu-magazine.com/new-noise-new-frontiers/

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11/10/2023

We’re so stoked to be able to bring you a fabulous conversation with Dimitri Coats and Keith Morris of OFF!

“I come from punk rock, and the rules for punk rock became more oppressive than for any of the other genres of music. Give me a break. We started doing this because we wanted to just break away from everything else that was happening at the time.”
- Keith Morris

“The thing that I’m the most proud of is that we stuck to our guns, we took risks, broke new ground for ourselves and did something extraordinary. All of those things have paid off. “
- Dimitri Coats

https://mu-magazine.com/off-re-wiring-the-circuitry/

✍🏻 Giles Sibbald

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Oh, and three more songs from the magnificent Free L*D EP are out digitally today on Fat Possum Records

26/09/2023

La dolce vita – Mykki Blanco basks in the holiday sun

So very proud to share a conversation with , one of the most breathtakingly innovative musical artists of the last ten years.

Mykki’s fabulous new EP “Postcards from Italia” is out now on

https://mu-magazine.com/la-dolce-vita-mykki-blanco-basks-in-the-holiday-sun/

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03/09/2023

BÖNDBREAKR: Exile

Up now: review of Exile, the burning new EP from BÖNDBREAKR

https://mu-magazine.com/bondbreakr-exile/

31/08/2023

Awesome!

Thanks so much to the magnificent The Ramonas and another memorable night at The 100 Club

“The Ramonas don’t f**k around…..1-2-3-4 and the opening chord of Durango 95 hits you at full tilt. It opens the door to the best 75 minutes of your life”

Thanks so much to Giles at MÜ Magazine for this epic review of our gig at The 100 Club London 🙌

Check out the full article here https://mu-magazine.com/the-ramonas-100-club-london-19th-august-2023/

ModernMedia.ie Crucial Talent Booking

31/08/2023

Thank you , always a blast!

Here’s our review:

“The Ramonas don’t f**k around…..1-2-3-4 and the opening chord of Durango 95 hits you at full tilt. It opens the door to the best 75 minutes of your life”

Thanks so much to Giles at MÜ Magazine for this epic review of our gig at The 100 Club London 🙌

Check out the full article at

https://mu-magazine.com/the-ramonas-100-club-london-19th-august-2023/

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26/08/2023

Here’s one from selection of ten LP’s

It’s second album Secret Measure on

Check out Vic’s review and his other excellent recommendations.

22/08/2023

One of the reviews from DJ Food in our current issue - Aphex Twin’s Blackbox Life Recorder 21f 12” on Warp Records

Check out what it’s all about in MÜ9

17/08/2023

We had a conversation with , the Paris-based Iranian photographer, about the Kurdish struggle in Northern Syria, the unreported war crimes and the violence and impact on innocent women and children. Her book, “Rising Among Ruins, Dancing Amid Bullets” is a photographic documentary of her work in Syrian and Iraqi Kurdistan since 2012.

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07/08/2023

This was such a beautiful conversation with Madison McFerrin

To see someone’s eyes light up when recalling that young adventurer, the laughter, fearlessness and curiosity of youth, is something special. Madison’s own journey is reawakening that sense of adventure and letting go of parts of herself that don’t serve her anymore.

Thanks Madison, best of luck on your evolution.

Check out the full interview in MÜ9. Link is in the photo.

05/08/2023

A prayer for the future.

Humility. Love. Liberation. Transformation. Infinitude.

Giles spent some time with the awesome Takiaya Reed of Divide and Dissolve to talk about their new studio LP, Systemic - their best yet in our opinion - nature, classical training, joy, space….

“Silence is really powerful. It's important for me personally to honour that power. Silence, spaciousness and breath. They’re all really important and I hope I can give honour to that. It was really wonderful to be able to put that energy into the music”

Check it out! Magazine download link in the photo

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Oh, and if you are in London on 7 September, they are playing - it’ll be beautiful

03/08/2023

“It’s my mission to ruffle people's feathers and complicate what a country singer is, what they look like and what they talk about. But also, I just love that music. I just love country music, I love folk music, I love acoustic music.”

Kara Jackson released her fantastic debut album, “why does the earth give us people to love”, earlier this year.

Giles spoke to her ahead of recording ‘dickhead blues” for the Later….with .holland.official on about the record, her poetry (Kara was the US National Youth Poet Laureate in 19/20) , storytelling, love and grief and activism

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11/07/2023

Essential Logic have released their 1979 debut album ‘Beat Rhythm News (Waddle Ya Play?)’ to all digital platforms.

Essential Logic was Lora’s new band after leaving X-Ray-Spex.

The album was re-released for Record Store Day in April 2023 on Limited Edition Blue Vinyl and immediately sold out, so this is the first digital release!

“Lora Logic was one of the many strands zooming away from the big bang of punk rock that we loved. Her sax with its defining blast and distinctive swing decorated and enhanced so many key post punk tracks that thrust this instrument into the molten rush of high decibel punk rock and inventive post punk and beyond.”

- John Robb

09/07/2023

A new release from MÜ alumni .

It’s called Ventolin and it’s a darkly pulsating, futuristic/retro electro groove banger that transports you into the shadows of the subversive, uninhibited underground.

Fabulous.

Maria’s new album, Soft Cuts, is out on 13 October on

26/06/2023

Up now…review of MESSAGE DELETED, the new single from Du Blonde

https://mu-magazine.com/du-blonde-message-deleted/

24/06/2023

Up now, review of Skeletal Family 6th studio LP, Light From The Dark, by the one and only Az In Black

https://mu-magazine.com/skeletal-family-light-from-the-dark/

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21/06/2023

New single from Swansea Sound is called Keep Your Head On. Set in a Modern Politics evening class, Hue (Pooh Sticks) and Amelia (Talulah Gosh / Heavenly), it’s about keeping your vision straight in a complex and volatile world, educating yourself, seeking your version of activism and seeing through the control tactics of a new and real enemy: big tech and media corps that present themselves as our friends but are so insidiously omnipresent that they are changing our behaviours, our language, our ability to distinguish between truth and lies.

It’s an upbeat (it really is!) anthem for making sense of a world that doesn’t make sense.

Watch it here (active link in stories):

https://youtu.be/wdGsXoHIigI

Next live date for Swansea Sound is in London on 30 June at

The new album ‘Twentieth Century’ will be released on 8th September on and the launch is on 9 September at

13/06/2023

Nice Autumn tour for our Issue 8 guests!

(ft. ) head out on tour later this year in support of their debut album ‘Black Bay’ - out now on ⚡️

🎟️ Tickets on sale now at: silvermoth.co.uk

12/06/2023

https://www.huckmag.com/article/detroits-defiant-underground-activists-of-the-60s-and-70s

A new exhibition brings together lesser-seen works from the archive of Leni Sinclar, which chronicle Detroit‘s counterculture and struggles for justice.

09/06/2023

So who have and got on their turntables this time?

Joe’s gone for:

Cristian Vogel

Kev’s choice:

Humanoid ()

Shackleton

And Vic:

The Masonics

08/06/2023

The Butterfly Effect of F**k Money

New feature on online now….

https://mu-magazine.com/the-butterfly-effect-of-f**k-money/

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07/06/2023

“Human beings are about cooperation, it’s one of our strongest assets and this is increasingly recognised in psychology and anthropology”

In depth conversation between and in MÜ8

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22/05/2023

Galen Ayers and Paul Simonon –

Bringing Tomorrow’s Dreams To Life

Fun chat with Galen and Paul about their new record ‘Can We Do Tomorrow Another Day?’

https://mu-magazine.com/galen-ayers-and-paul-simonon-bringing-tomorrows-dreams-to-life/

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MÜ Issue 8! Order Now! “MÜ is fearless, irreverent and nonconformist, a necessity in these times. It highlights the new generation of visionaries. You can find in MÜ anything from philosophical and existential questions about life, through to self-sufficiency, music, art, food. So turn on, tune...

08/05/2023

“Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don’t struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality” Pema Chodron

The 8th issue of MÜ is now available as a digital download.

Click on the image and a clickable link will take you to the issue on our website

Culture and the arts have never been as important as now, so thank you to everyone who has supported and contributed to MÜ, we are forever grateful.

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26/04/2023

New Limited Edition Art & Lyric book from the legend - Peter Murphy released 31st July

https://mu-magazine.com/peter-murphy-new-limited-edition-art-lyric-book/

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Black Bay, a record that is tempestuous, passionate, moving, and utterly beautiful. A living storybook of the turbulence and beauty of those liminal moments A wonderful chat with Elisabeth Elektra @elisaelektra and Stuart Braithwaite @plasmatron of the remarkable Silver Moth @silvermothmusic “Everything is so visually focused because of social media, so you get these perfectly curated artists where everything is on point, they look f**king amazing, their videos are beautiful, but their music is bland and earnest and unadventurous. It doesn’t take risks in any way. 💥 Elisabeth “But record shops are more than just somewhere you buy records. They’re places where communities gather, where people make connections, where friendships are made around these things, and they’re the kind permanent and ongoing things that can’t be taken away. “ 💥 Stuart You can find the full interview in MÜ9, available for download from our website or by clicking the product link on the video. #silvermoth #blackbay #bellaunion #stuartbraithwaite #elisabethelektra #mogwai #mumagazine #counterculture

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The winds of change, an awakening, chapters remaining to be written …. a review of Essential Lora Logic first gig in over 40 years #loralogic #essentiallogic #landofkali #xrayspex #sax #alienboys #youth https://mu-magazine.com/essential-logic-the-winds-of-change-an-awakening-chapters-remaining-to-be-written/

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