Carmen Maria Machado talked with Guernica.

Largehearted Boy published an Up Up, Down Down playlist from Cheston Knapp.

At 3:AM, KT Laity on the music and aesthetics of The Fall.

The Quietus revisited Madonna’s Ray of Light on its 20th anniversary.

Reserve Matinee, a new cassette label from Chicago, has made its debut.

At Entropy, delving into the presence of absence in the works of Edouard Levé.

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