As Record Store Day (20 Apr) approaches, you’ll need to meticulously plan your diary to avoid missing out on some of the fantastic in-store events happening across Scotland’s beloved independent...
Festivals! They're still happening, except all the ones you used to just roll up to now sell out months in advance ’cause every man and his dog wants to go....
Break open the penny jar, call in your debtors, collectors of the world unite! This 20 April sees the sixth incarnation of Record Store Day
Trans Am’s Phil Manley welcomes old college pal Jon Theodore into the fold for his second album as Life Coach. Ruthless advice and sublime cosmic jams ensue
Edwyn Collins invites us to his west London studios to discuss Understated – his exhilarating new album
Philadelphian troubadour Kurt Vile waxes poetic on rock biographies, giving up drugs, and why loving your couch doesn't make you a slacker
With brilliant new Flaming Lips album The Terror taking what Embryonic started to bleak new extremes, Wayne Coyne explains why he’s packing away the confetti gun and focusing on survival
With a new single out on Moshi Moshi and an album on the horizon, we sit down with Casual Sex to discuss the Glasgow band's past, present and why winging...
A roundup of the most unmissable gigs in the Central Belt, with the return of the Outskirts Festival and live appearances from James Blake, Echo & The Bunnymen, Trail of...
April in the Northwest is a month of contrasts, from the wonky West Coast folk of Mary Epworth to the raw scorch of Hookworms – via Steve Mason, Peace, Daughter,...
You'd be surprised by the number of ways you can lose your hearing
As he prepares to drop his debut album Nostalchic on Brainfeeder, Stuart Howard aka Lapalux talks to us about memory, tape hiss and the emotions buried in his music
A homage to players ranging from late Stax legend Duck Dunn to hardcore punk pioneer Mike Watt, Pearl Jam's Jeff Ament tells the story of his bass neck
With righteous new album Monkey Minds in the Devil's Time setting the world to rights, we sit down with Steve Mason to discuss his politics of dissent
Before Pearl Jam return to work on their tenth album this month, bassist Jeff Ament explains why he felt the need to get RNDM...
Oh Christ, it’s another ‘new Nirvana.’ But come back – there’s more to hard-hitting Toronto trio METZ than a misty-eyed flashback to the glory days of grunge
With a diverse selection of twelve tracks from this month’s single, EP and album releases playing on their backstage stereo, Deftones' Chino Moreno and Frank Delgado go fishing for the...
Enter the Church of Noise, where only the most loud and abrasive get to hold the sermons. From doom-jazz to hardcore...whatever. Earplugs optional, but you probably won't last long without...
From the return of shoegaze innovators to the healing sounds of one man and his guitar, March has something up its sleeve for everybody
Deap Vally's guttural blues rock might have earned them friends in high places, but the LA duo's fashion sense is yet to win over the traditionalists. Drummer Julie Edwards explains...
