Bonnacons of Doom - SignsTraversing the everyday in 2023,the need for ritual catharsis only grows stronger. The need to lose oneself in a force bigger than ourselves, and to venture into innerspace the better to sculpt armour for the battles outside. Luckily this is the job of Bonnaconsof Doom, aural soothsayers and progenitors of Trans Pennine hypnotic music.Signs their second album for Rocket Recordings marks both a portent of things to come, and a roadmap of the psychic

When Mike Kerr and Ben Thatcher sat down to talk about making a new album

featuring ‘It’s A New Day’

This is something that is reflected in the striking artwork by long-time collaborator Jonathan Wilkinson which comes from a series of prints inspired by his time hiking around the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire

set for release February 2021

he'd even release it on his new label

After a pandemic year that toggled relentlessly between numbing dread and active terror

his side project

the enigmatic percussionist behindåÊAsh Ra Tempel

The fictional character was based on a photograph of Peter Tosh

It's a small miracle that Evan Dando is still alive

captures the highlights of one of the special shows

a huge wooden box