The irresistible vocals & up-tempo beats of glaive’s ‘im alright’ characterize the sound of a new generation of online pop stars aqnb, Friday sound
Monika Janulevičiūtė & Antanas Lučiūnas ‘Water Striders’ takes its viewer on an inexhaustible quest through desolate places on the periphery Thursday video
4va conjures thunderous orchestral landscapes on the tumbling drums & high drama strings of ‘STFX’ aqnb, Thursday sound
The Deep Real: AQNB’s first Artist Statement podcast featuring Katja Novitskova launches a subscription drive in a period of mutual redefinition aqnb, Wednesday features
Big mood: On the analogue past & digital present of ambient music as it moves through moments of crisis in an age of problems too large to scale Jared Davis, 27 May 2020 features
Alma mater: The ambiguous parental parentheses of art institutions from Jessie Bullivant’s pleas to be excused in ‘To Be Announced…’ Kim Modig, 3 December 2019 features
I’m not alone: Alima Lee on isolation, community & Black joy in the many worlds of the internet with her Films for Escapism program 26 June 2020 focus
Artmaking under capitalism: bod [包家巷]’s epic Music For Self Esteem looks back before moving forward in its critique of commodity culture 17 June 2020 focus
Rui Ho shares her thoughts on intensity, escape & the internet during quarantine in China, along with a track from AQNB’s compendium 13 May 2020 focus
A deep dive into car culture & its collisions with notions of identity in the Custom group show at Los Angeles’ Gas gallery Monday photo
The epic waves of Fetva’s combustible ‘We Are Floating’ reacts with the oxygen of the katharsis label compilation’s The Breath of Air theme aqnb, 26 June 2020 sound
Baby Blue & Ugent create transcendental techno hymns on ‘Magical Kingdom America’ & ‘Count Back From Five’ aqnb, 25 June 2020 sound
Alien myths, overlapping histories & skewed chronologies in the ceramic & textile works of Afra Eisma & Susan Kooi at Kyoto’s Garden Lab 22 June 2020 photo
Tijuana’s Benfika comes out of the chaos of spirituality & looks ahead with cautious optimism from within the ruins of ‘Ollin”s orchestral synthesis aqnb, 19 June 2020 sound
galen tipton’s ‘butterfly drinking blood’ captures a spritely & chaotic form of transcendental catharsis 18 June 2020 video
Olan Monk enlists James K to explore dystopia & incalculable loss on the disarming electro-infused rhythms of ‘Morticia’ aqnb, 18 June 2020 sound
Uncovering patriarchal systems & the codes of Surrealism through the sculptural environments of Cristine Brache 15 June 2020 photo
peb explores perception-warping MIDI sequences on the unhinged polyrhythms of ‘Interlude I (City)’ aqnb, 12 June 2020 sound
Croatian Amor reconciles the sentimental & unfamiliar on ‘The River That Flows In You Also Flows In Me’ aqnb, 11 June 2020 sound
Inorganic encounters in the forest surrounds of a stargazing site with the Camouflage offsite show organised by Hong Kong’s prsntprsnt 1 June 2020 photo
Chester Raj Anand conjures a liminal dream-like state on ‘VOICES’, while contemplating isolation & dreams within the urban purgatory of now aqnb, 29 May 2020 sound
Wesqk Coast explores personal philosophies on the foreboding ambiences and broken rhythms of ‘Rimosso’ aqnb, 28 May 2020 sound
Playful encounters & unknown rituals in an Illinois state park with the whimsical objects of Isabelle Adams 25 May 2020 photo
Gabber Modus Operandi creates rhythmic haywire on their hyperbolic remix of Nahash’s ‘A Secret Christian Influence’ aqnb, 22 May 2020 sound
