“Sell-out” isn’t such a dirty word anymore. The effects of corporate and institutional co-optation on counterculture in the Assimilation Politics roundtable discussion aqnb, 17 December 2018 sound
Brisbane’s Ditchdog echoes into an abyss of slow drones & indecipherability for ‘This One Won’t Do’ out on Intruder Alert aqnb, Friday sound
Shayu ‘Int. Carma’ is an ornate weave of inspirations across classical piano, a trip to China & early 20th century Russian ballet Thursday video
Alone togetherness in the localised global underground of Krakow’s Unsound Festival & its insights into the value of presence Tayyab Amin, 28 November 2018 features
Take yourself to the centre of Otherness: Looking at identity, belonging & representation from the margins at BFMAF Divya Osbon, 5 October 2018 features
For what it’s worth: AQNB’s editor kicks off a funding drive with an exposition on the life of a freelance writer, Part 1 Jean Kay, 9 July 2018 features
Future forward: Ashley Holmes on the language of things to exist within & Black radio as a way to document culture 3 December 2018 focus
Different angles: Jamila Johnson-Small on Last Yearz Interesting Negro, the limits of language & how those limitations might speak 12 November 2018 focus
Open pores of perception: Britta Thie on commerce, individuals & self-presentation in a drag-and-drop from the mall to the museum Yves Decline, Wednesday interviews
“It just takes a second, it’s done.” Nazar’s Enclave conjures the reality of war in its cut & thrust update on Angolan & Portugese kuduro Steph Kretowicz, Tuesday reviews
Exploring the body unconscious through VR in Mélodie Mousset’s HanaHana: Full Bloom with Treti Galaxie 7 December 2018 photo
A view from Junk Bay: Alexmalism rummages through the sonic landfill of consumerism, colonialism & deterritorialisation in TKO aqnb, 7 December 2018 sound
Honami Higuchi finds catharsis from traumatic experiences in the body-performance of Torque as Mira with Raphael Leray 6 December 2018 video
Makeda’s ‘Me, First’ traces the colonial histories of Australia & the UK through her own faded ties to an unfamiliar Afro-Caribbean heritage aqnb, 29 November 2018 sound
“My body’s unglued.” Tendryl invokes a slow melt of liquified space in a post-truth moment for the club, noise & trap of Knaves aqnb, 29 November 2018 sound
Kneading through the collaborative work of Corinna Helenelund & Lukas Q Hoffmann at Titanik, Turku 28 November 2018 photo
El Plvybxy contemplates the pre-Columbian “continent of life” with the feverish pace of a producer establishing their identity aqnb, 26 November 2018 sound
mapalma dissects the relationship between nature, technology & the human condition with the noisy industrial sound of ‘Boneless Beauty’ aqnb, 23 November 2018 sound
Lol K’s distorted saxophone plunges into the recesses of bass & garage with a video for Born Under a Bad One featuring Rowdy SS 22 November 2018 video
Bonaventure’s Mentor EP strips away the noise & volatility of her earlier audio collages to reveal the mute tension that lies beneath Steph Kretowicz, 19 November 2018 reviews
Lyra Pramuk draws a line through a mysterious, triumphant, joyous mix of old & new, familiar & unfamiliar sounds for AQNB aqnb, 16 November 2018 sound
NULL revisits the euphoric rave days of a childhood Walkman with an emotional cassette mix called Halcyon Days Volume 2 aqnb, 9 November 2018 sound
