With ninth album C’mon, Low have found their beating heart once again. Frontman Alan Sparhawk explains why he got tired of making things ugly, with a little help from Katy...
Think about it. Forty years ago Britney would never have made it to her puffy, balding, demented phase. She'd have been found face down in a cheap hotel next to...
Moon Duo's Ripley Johnson on the importance of location, two heads being better than four, and why he believes in karma
Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison waxes lyrical on his admiration for Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy
Explosions in the Sky’s Chris Hrasky explains how the cult Texan instrumentalists made it back from the brink, and why they'll never mess with their history
From hatching schemes in a Tesco car-park to playing gigs for Sunday league footballers, the only way is weird for mathematic riff magicians Lady North...
The Artist Formerly Known As Smog explains his own Apocalypse
With the follow-up to their Mercury-nominated Two Dancers due to drop any day, Wild Beasts' Hayden Thorpe talks progress, success, and Bono's big yap
To celebrate the imminent release of his collaboration with musical polymath Bill Wells, fellow Falkirk troubadour Aidan Moffat introduces Everything's Getting Older
With his album Women’s Studies about to drop on Planet Mu, Chicago DJ legend Chrissy Murderbot is about to unleash his booty-fuelled mashup of juke, bashment and bass on the...
2011's great white hype James Blake on keeping his family life private, and why his debut LP was definitely not dubstep...
Returning from the wilderness with album number two this month, Glasvegas frontman James Allan reveals the reasons for the band's retreat
Five years on from their landmark debut, Kode 9 and The Spaceape return to reinvent bass music once more with the epic follow-up, Black Sun. Welcome to their world...
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With Trembling Bells’ third album on the way, drummer Alex Neilson is all too happy to debate the finer points of folk music
The most ghastly thing about Friday is not the hideous auto-tuning, the stupefying lyrics or the gormless rap, it's the fact that it reminds us what a bunch of slack-jawed...
Taking subtle cues from Nirvana and fatherhood, Noah ‘Panda Bear’ Lennox unveils his inner Tomboy
Cutting through the shit to get to the root of Autechre's brilliance
Pulling no punches, Greg Sinclair and Duncan Marquiss of The Phantom Band stick it to the April singles
As ...And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead and Rival Schools prepare to share a tour-bus for a co-headlining tour of Europe, Conrad Keely makes his journalistic...
