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Profile of disco legend Sylvester

Story on Chicago DJ Ron Hardy for Wax Poetics by Andy Thomas

Andy Thomas explores Horace Tapscott's sprawling LA jazz collective the Pan African Peoples Arkestra

Profile on English clothes designer and founder of '80s collective House of Beauty & Culture

Andy Thomas reports from the NYC House music club

Bill Bernstein photographed New York's disco scene of the late '70s

Designer and stylist Judy Blame has collaborated with a host of international designers, from Christopher Nemeth to Kim Jones at Louis Vuitton, as well as styling the likes of Neneh Cherry and Björk. Andy Thomas meets him in advance of a major exhibition at ICA

Straddling the line between documentary and fiction, Collier Schorr has continued to explore gender and identity, navigating the subjective nature of representation both in her artworks and shoots for leading fashion titles. I met Collier for COS Editorial as part of their PRIDE 2022 campaign.

Cult '80s shoe designer John Moore is revered by today's tastemakers. Andy Thomas explains why.

Interview with the English clothes designer as he prepares to open a new London store

Adrian Sherwood’s On-U Sound label might be best known for the coming together of Jamaican titans like Lee “Scratch” Perry and Bim Sherman with the mixing-desk genius of its founder. But equally important to the direction of the English label was a cross-Atlantic partnership that followed a meeting in New York in 1984 between Sherwood and hip-hop drum pioneer, DMX beatbox innovator, and tape machine sound collagist Keith LeBlanc.

Interview with the writer and broadcaster at his home in Marseilles in advance of his new food book The Plagiarist in The Kitchen.

The Baltimore artist’s thrust for change echoes that of earlier Afro-futurists who sought liberation through art – from Sun Ra, to writer Octavia E Butler. As a founder of the cult party Kahlon, Abdu created an underground space for musicians in their hometown.

My essay for Hole & Corner magazine on John Simons who in the words of Paul Anderson author of Mods is “The man who gave England the new stylish continental look."

A new film about Cuts Hairdressers is on the way and Andy Thomas meets the people behind it.