Greetings, zine rockers. Another Subculture’s issue for April 2026 is out now.

The listings are online now, and the paper round is in full force this holiday week, so expect copies in the usual places (I will be updating the map/stockists page shortly!).

Paid subscribers had their copies posted as soon as I got my hands on the paper - as ever, you can join them by upgrading your newsletter subscription for £3 a month.

As always, expect over fifty suggestions for spending loud night in London this April, including a bumper crop this Easter weekend... and speaking of, on the back page of the print edition, you can find a nice chat with the minds behind Sunday School, a weekender that has been combining punk and harsh electronic acts into a multimedia frenzy over the past few years.

This year's edition starts this Saturday, so hopefully the interview adds some context and gives you a bit more of a sense of the effort (and overdrafts) required to pull off D-I-Y at scale these days.

I realised when compiling this month's newsletter that I've had a quiet month on the live music front - a few subpar snaps from The Stag's Head at the end of March (shame, as Kute, Keno & Vanity Crystal were all excellent), and the only other night out was the formidable, and final, Hyperdub night at Corsica Studios last week. Remembered as soon as I got to the dancefloor that ah, you don't bring a digicam into the club, so all I captured from that night was the commemorative mirrors on the way to the loos:

Rest assured that Loraine James’ set was, as always, revelatory. I wish for the Funktion One soundsystem that has rattled my ears over the years to find a new home sharpish. Isn’t Elephant boring now?

And so: two toilets. One trying to be a meme, one trying to be that record shop that burnt down. Maybe a nod to April Fool's Day, albeit with a resignation that brands and generative AI have both sucked the life out of a rich tradition (although I did enjoy Raising Hell fanzine's announcement this morning), and also a sign that life events brackets general has perhaps taken over. I have, however, bought a functioning camera from The Shop, so maybe there will be something more photogenic next month!

I am still keen to include photos, reviews, columns and anything else fit to print from others in the paper, so if I've asked you before and not followed it up, please reply and give me a nudge! I wish to take your amazing photography and put it through the wringer (Spectrolite: a good app) and give a few other perspectives an airing, and although AS doesn't exactly have a budget, if you have expenses that could be a barrier, I'll happily reimburse for you. Give me a bell!

Links, Embeds

• Excited to be guesting on this Sunday's Heads on Sticks radio show, live on Aaja Radio from 3-5pm. I'll be playing an hour of favoured music and highlights of gigs included in the paper this month.

• Still co-hosting Repetitive Strain too, and the last show felt like a particularly representative one? Hardcore into hardcore, jungle into VGM, an enjoyable mess all round. Every second Sunday of the month on Voices Radio at 8pm; the archive is here.

• Elsewhere, you should listen to R.Aggs' joyous set as part of the BBC 6 Music Festival - they performed last weekend, and it was on primetime last night. Listen on BBC Sounds, and expect a new release on Bandcamp soon.

• T4Tunes have compiled a formidable list of accessible music venues in London, the UK and beyond on their website, which every like-minded promoter should bookmark. Getting better for sure, and now we just need to work out how to improve accessibility across the board in ways that don't gentrify the venues out of existence (have you seen how much a lift costs to install?).

• The webring that Another Subculture belongs to now has 20 members, and we've all put together a mixtape. Takes me right back to my indie blog days, which you are not allowed to read.

I think that is everything for this month? Always cheering to see the grid busy, to see new promoters, and reassured that I'm not alone in enjoying this racket. Say hello if you see me on the paper round!

Cheers + B P / A S