The epitome of Taiwanese math rock Elephant Gym sat down with me moments before their Bristol gig to talk about everything from making their album World, experimenting beyond math rock, and their ambitions with revolutionising the Taiwanese independent music scene.

As the co-owner of the music industry’s favourite hangout spot and the director of some of Taipei’s largest venues supporting independent artists, Arthur Chen has witnessed the evolution of the Taipei underground music scene for the past four decades. I spoke to Chen about Fucking Place and the live houses that revolutionised a generation of Taiwanese creativity.

Today, one is worshipping seasons through a ritualistic anarchy sign sowed to a Cornish field and one just finished a comic reinventing the Book of Genesis to an anthology of alien conquest.

CSM-trained fashion designer Samuel Friberg reimagined his scavenging lifestyle in London warehouses into a graduate collection fueled with stains, angst, aggression, grittiness, but also elegance and a love for nature. I followed him around for the past three months to reveal every bits that feed into this collection.

The entire existence of Pirzadeh is haram to the Iranian regime. Over a coffee, he spills about celebrating his Iranian identity, participating in a resistance, and how these motivate him to bring craftsmanship back to hair.

I spoke to the director behind the cult classic film that documented the most notorious band of the 1990s Taiwanese underground music scene. Pulp Chen talks about what it was like partying in the 90s, what the cultural landscape was like, and why the rebellion in music died down in the recent decade.

White Moth Orchid is a short experimental film that questions the possibility of historical empathy through acting. The film reenacts a historical authoritarian period of Taiwan defined by paranoia and injustice and is an exploration of the relationship of people in history and people in the present who study them.

Anarchy(type)/(An)archetype is dedicated to the Sex Pistols, whose subversive energy catalysed the evolution of a generation from servile youth accepting a future of socio-economic and political disarray into individualistic, new identities that energised new possibilities.

Legacy is a zine illustrating the vibrant communities of London and their collaboration with AgeUK. Our goal is to showcase some of the exciting local businesses created by long-standing members of these communities to provide a platform and media presence accessible to all.