You Dig? | Issue #08
Issue #08 | August 2025 | Curated by DB Burkeman | Artwork by Pia Dehne | | | Down at those crossroads we reckon you’re sure to find this month’s cover art, from NY-based artist Pia Dehne. The painting’s based on her 2004 photoshoot, which recreated Jimi Hendrix’s Electric Ladyland cover – the one that didn’t make it to the then-prudish US market in 1968. The stencil-cum-cave painting style gives the iconic cover a whole new, yet curiously fitting vibe.
Paola Puente
If Paola Puente’s records, portable turntables, vintage toys and ephemera were housed in a museum, it would be enough to make The Smithsonian envious. The fact that one individual has single-handedly amassed such a meticulously curated collection is extraordinary.
Sounds of Slience
SOUNDS OF SILENCE JAZZ KISSA OF JAPAN BY JAMES HUSSEIN CATCHPOLE Whether jazz, soul, rock, reggae or even European classical, Japan has a bar that caters to every type of music fan. To become a regular at a music bar, you are not just a customer conducting a transaction, but an integral part of […]
John Armstrong
Listening to John Armstrong’s stories in his room with open cupboards full of vinyl records and books, I found to be very inspiring. Mahogany-colored shelves stretched from wall to wall. There were two other rooms crowded with vinyl in his New-Victorian house, most of them in boxes which he “still needs to unwrap.” I knew immediately that this interview would travel into deep and wide landscapes. John Armstrong started DJing in the 1970s while working as a lawyer at a Jewish law firm in
