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Essay

Roy Ayers & Fela Kuti: Music Of Many Colours

October 2020

Roy Ayers and Fela Kuti each explored Pan-Africanism and diasporic solidarity their own way before their meeting in 1979, which represented a crystallisation of ideas. By John Morrison

Interview

Gee Vaucher talks to Savage Pencil

October 2020

As the albums of anarcho punk legends Crass receive a new reissue, their visual mastermind talks to artist and Wire contributor Savage Pencil aka Edwin Pouncey