All music is inherently syncretic, traditional and contemporary alike, and it’s impossible (not to mention undesirable) to maintain complete musical purity. If this wasn’t the case, there would be no ...

With a combined age somewhere in the region of 130, French couple Pepe and Irene deliver a powerful industrial sound that a band less than half their age would struggle to match. Words: David McKenna.

As they release their first album on the Def Jam label for 22 years, Public Enemy's Chuck D discusses the past, the present and the possible future with Angus Batey In an exclusive extract from his ...

In Conversation Peer Reviewed: Claire Rousay Interviews Circuit Des Yeux… And Vice Versa. Circuit Des Yeux and Claire Rousay interview each other about namedropping, social media stats, keeping safe ...

If Talking Heads have a magnum opus, it is surely 1980’s Remain in Light. More than a mere maturation in the band’s sound, ...

The mainstream music biz reckons that devoted fans are the golden geese that'll keep laying, and the streaming services are about to get in on the grift. Eamonn Forde explains why this makes no ...

Black Antlers by Coil Black Antlers comes with less of the mythos that attaches itself to other Coil albums. Where Time ...

On The Air’s pilot was written by Lynch and Twin Peaks’ other creator Mark Frost, with the intention that Lynch direct.It was commissioned by ABC, the station airing Twin Peaks, and shot in March 1991 ...

With the end of June comes the slew of 2025-so-far charts and its accompanying discourse, the first proper attempt to ...

Hannah Peel speaks to poet, writer and sometime collaborator Will Burns about the 13 albums that influenced her, from Kraftwerk to Jill Scott, Radiohead, Cluster and Steve Reich. Photo by Peter Marley ...

The Go-Betweens were destined to never become stars, but Alfred Soto finds much to praise as he revisits their 1984 LP Spring Hill Fair, a "dense, terse minor masterpiece of literate quasi-pop" If you ...