After knowing each other for 20 years and trying to put together a tour for over a decade, Marcia Bassett and Ignatz finally made it happen and played several shows together. The result of that effort is archived as a tape, which is out now.

Vienna-based saxophone player Michael Masen blows his horn mostly straight and hard, sometimes more nuanced. He’s no bullshit, in attitude and deliverance. You might know him from bands such as Mozo Mozo and FS Massaker, and collaborations with Linda Sharrock and Virginia Genta.

Joeri Cooremans solo black metal project Zwarte Dood delivers some of the dirtiest sounds around. In our interview, he talks about how sound, noise and music can evoke deeply personal, spiritual and ritualistic experiences.

Oerheks is a Belgian Black Metal act whose music is based around the folklore of his hometown Kaggevinne.

»iiinox« is a solo drum album by French out-of-the-box thinking percussionist Charles Dubois. In our interview, he talks about the intentions behind his work.

Syöttökäärme is a psychrock-band from Finland who just released their self-titled debut album, which is full of kosmische musik-based endless boogie.

»Piffiverse« is the debut EP by Antwep-based pop artist Piffy. It contains contrasting and vulnerable pop tunes.

Loudness and laughter with the Japanese lord of the lute – a charming and A L’arming interview with Keiji Haino and interpreter Shouji Hara.

Bruges-based psych folk veteran Edgar Wappenhalter aka Steve Marreyt made an album inspired by Dutch non-conformist and communist poet Sonja Prins. 

Younes Zarhoni is a Brussels-based visual artist and electronic musician with Moroccan roots who mixes polyphonic madrigals with 1990s R&B production.

Jack Paton is the singer / voice / noise behind the Band L. We asked him for an interview on occasion of release of their debut »Marilyn Monroe – All of Us«.

Alpha Morzel is a new label from Belgium concentrating on extreme music. Its first release is a tape by US harsh noise act Meketa. We asked label founder and graphic designer Bram Kluizenaar also known as Kluzehellion for an interview.

In our interview, electronic musician Ryan Hill aka Kagami Smile talks about his influences from the US and China and what makes his sound »dreampunk«.

A listener’s journey that feels like being Alice in the wonderland of Japanese noise & psychedelic underground music, as well as a conversation about music and (due to his recent passing) Fushitsusha bassist Chiyo Kamekawa, by way of an interview with band member and (snare) drummer Ryosuke Kiyasu.

Der SciFi-Autor Lavie Tidhar veröffentlicht mit »Maror« einen Thriller, der die Geschichte Israels aus der Perspektive von Kriminalität und Korruption erzählt. skug sprach mit ihm u. a. über die Entstehung des Buchs und die Bedeutung israelischer Musik.

Colin Foord und J. D. McKay veröffentlichen gemeinsam mit Nick Léon Ambient-Musik, die Inspiration aus der Beschäftigung mit dem Leben der Riffe schöpft. skug sprach mit Foord über die Verbindung von Kunst und Natur, Korallen und Menschen.

Der dänische Jazz-Saxophonist Benjamin Koppel hat eine schriftstellerische Ode an seine Tante Anna verfasst. Das Buch »Annas Lied« erzählt die Geschichte ihrer jüdischen Familie über ein ganzes Jahrhundert und erscheint nun erstmals auf Deutsch. Wir haben mit dem Autor gesprochen.

The Finnish spirits of Paavoharju howl back with their third album from the very original constellation. We talked to Lauri Ainala about this and his other projects within the realm of the Finnish city of Savonlinna.

Belgian multi-talent Benjamin Abel Meirhaeghe presents the music theater »Madrigals« at ImPulsTanz 2023, showing »a future freed from normativity«.

Electronic maestro Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) and clarinettist Gareth Davis are two central figures of UK’s experimental music scene. We had the chance to talk with them about friendship, the pitfalls of memory and why Neue Musik might be one of the most easy-access genres around.

Lane Shi is a multi-disciplinary artist from China operating under the moniker Otay:onii. Following the release of her latest album »夢之駭客 Dream Hacker«, skug had the chance to talk with her about dreams, 1,500 year-old music scores, and modern-day oppression.

Cevdet Erek, a prolific sound artist, prog-rocker and architect from Istanbul, created an audio-visual art installation in Vienna’s Museumsquartier. While the project was taking shape, we talked about curiosity, historical instruments, and electronic dance music.

Leah Singer and Lee Ranaldo, co-founder of Sonic Youth, created two art installations in Vienna. Ahead of the release, we talked with the couple about their creative process.

We met Ivo Dimchev for an interview ahead of the performance of his new piece »In Hell with Jesus« at Impulstanz Vienna on August 1st and 3rd, 2022.

Two ultimate highlights of this year’s Donaufestival were The Bug & Dis Fig and the solo performance of Dis Fig. We met Felicia Chen for an interview.

After nine years, a new Paavoharju album has been released. Reason enough to talk to the head of the group, Lauri Ainala, about the new album »Happiness«, a collaboration with Folk-Singer Joose Keskitalo, and to seek some answers about that ever-mysterious thing from the cold north.

Her new album dropped. Then the war started. Katarina Gryvul is a Ukraine-born, Graz-based sound artist, talking about the current situation in her home country — and why there’s still hope.

Wolfgang Bill Price wrote this text about the inauguration of the Shoah Wall of Names Memorial in Vienna shortly before he died in hospital of a heart attack on November 24, 2021, having survived Corona in intensive care a few weeks earlier.

In the midst of the Corona pandemic, The Beths released a new album and skug asked them a few questions and promptly got answers. Although their statements have been reproachfully glancing into the interviewers’ eye from the editing desk for about two months, their meaning hasn’t changed a bit.

We had a lot of fun writing, practicing, and performing our duets together and we used to spend a lot of the time that we should have been working in fits of laughter. That was how many of our songs were born. A personal obituary for Elinor Mora.