Music | Feature
Paul Mitchell: "I'm absolutely sublime, thank you for asking." Jónsi is in chipper mood when The Skinny catches him for a chat, despite an arduous day of pres...
Chris Cusack: Generally accepted as one of the most accomplished albums to emerge from the fertile Washington D.C. scene of the early nineties, the remastering of F...
Ally Brown: Blur – Parklife (1994) Britpop's finest hour, the album that launched a thousand magazine trend pieces about Essex lads behaving badly. So, that...
Ally Brown: What is the best shorthand to introduce Damon Albarn now? Is it: "former Blur frontman..."? Too retro. Perhaps it's "Gorillaz mastermind..."? But that...
Music | Food and Drink | Feature
Jeff Tuttle: Ingredients: ½ onion (diced) Two mushrooms (diced) One tbsp vegetable oil Kraft® Macaroni and Cheese Preparation technique: Heat up some o...
Dave Kerr: When we last checked in with The Dillinger Escape Plan, guitarist Jeff Tuttle was the quiet new guy in the corner, soaking up the experience of conque...
Jeff Tuttle: Jim Martin One of my first guitar heroes was Jim Martin from Faith No More. He was the sole guitar player in the band and had a lot of bases to cover,...
Dave Kerr: Before pressing the ejector seat button on their involvement in the New York post-punk resurrection show in the early noughties – only to do a B...
Darren Carle: Suicide As far as combining abrasive industrial clatter with child-like lullabies, there are few who can hold a light to New York ‘synth-punk&rs...
Darren Carle: For anyone already familiar with the playfully abrasive sound of Fuck Buttons, it should come as little surprise to discover that the group’s tw...
Music | Feature | New Blood
Lauren Mayberry: It’s easy not to feel nostalgic for childhood when you consider some of the shit you went through at the hands of your siblings. You know, those...
Ryan Drever: Like that scene at the start of The Wrestler, where Mickey Rourke tapes up his wounds backstage at a community centre, Suzanne Shaw has been known to ...
Mark Shukla: Envane (1997) Opening with a Dr. Octagon-sampling mutant hip-hop epic, Envane finds Autechre taking a scalpel to their formal influences, recombining...
Ryan Drever: In 2004 Florida punks Hot Water Music plunged into that almost purgatorial realm of the "indefinite hiatus", as all four members, burnt out, looked to...
Mark Shukla: If NASA ever decide to repeat their grandiose publicity stunt of 1977, which saw them launch the famous Voyager Gold Discs into the depths of space, o...
