Issue Seventeen takes us into festival season with Courtney Barnett on the print cover. We catch her in the midst of a European tour to chat about her artwork, the new record and trusting in the moment. Bristol’s finest, Idles take our call to chat about signing to Partisan Records, the communities behind the new record as well as the joys of touring the world with your mates. Flying over to New York, we talk to Bodega who have quickly become one of the most promising guitar bands around. Having recently recorded with Parquet Courts’ Austin Brown, we chat to them about the process. In the capital, Hotel Lux have released another testing single in ‘Daddy’, we met them at the pub to dismiss their ‘working class hero’ tag. Manchester carries a weight of history and we spoke to one of their modern leading lights, Spring King, about how the world needs a positive spin.
