This piece was first published in HERO Issue 24, on sale now. Enter any gallery or museum and the four-word configuration ‘please do not touch’ crops up more than any other. …

Whoever is responsible for tracking down and persuading the New Radicals to reform for the Biden inauguration deserves a medal. Tomorrow, on Wednesday January 20, one-time frontman Gregg Alexander will get the old band back together for the first time in twenty-two years to perform their one and only hit…

Microphones in 2020 is the latest release from Washington-based songwriter and visual artist Phil Elverum. …

‘Best of’ lists are not really important, are they? Yet at this time of year they are everywhere, endlessly organising a chaotic glut of music, film, television and literature. The end of 2019 affords us the opportunity to put a cap on the decade that has just been, soon to…

Compiling an end-of-year albums list always feels like a slightly futile idea. The music is still present. It feels unfinished. Listening to music is never a done deal, but the ubiquitous end-of-year list seeks to rationalise a year’s worth of music and box it away. Yet rarely does there come…

Christian Marclay’s The Clock (2010) is a 24-hour long video installation composed of instances in film and television where clocks or watches are either visible in shot or just out of shot, or where someone is asking/telling the time. …