Interviews

From axe-wielding, slacker rock overlord with Dinosaur Jr., to fearsome stick-smith with doom metal-mongers Witch, J. Mascis is clearly a man of many talents. However, as Darren Carle came to realise, being a dutiful interviewee does not appear to be one of them Read more »

Swedish crooner Jens Lekman briefly hung up his guitar when scurrilous stories about him became too much to take. Luckily for us he didn't retire for long, but as he tells Ally Brown, if you're trying to find out the truth about him, you may as well just make something up Read more »

The Vaselines, cited by Nirvana's Kurt Cobain as one of his biggest influences, are set to get back together again as part of Tigerfest. They play Dunfermline's Carnegie Hall on May 16th on the same bill as Teenage Fanclub's Norman Blake and the Pearlfishers' David Scott. (Coincidentally, Cobain named Teenage Fanclub as the best band in the world.) Read more »

From Black Flag to NWA, innovative – and sometimes revolutionary - bands have been seeping out from the pores of the Los Angeles underground for decades. Dave Kerr comes to face to face with a new breed, in the library no less Read more »

New York will always be home to the coolest cats in music, but every so often (almost cyclically) a new wave of bands emerge to remind us where it's at. Over... Read more »

Maybe Google isn't the most reliable information source in the world, as Finbarr Bermingham found out when he sat down with Brooklyn duo MGMT and accused them of being a couple of recovering acid heads Read more »