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THE ORB VS. THE UPSETTER: ROUND 2 The Orb and Lee 'Scratch' Perry have announced a new collaboration, a follow-up to their 2012 album The Observer In The Sta... Read more »

In deciding to title his fifth solo album Panda Bear Meets the Grim Reaper, Noah Lennox – the eponymous Panda – invites us to suppose he is facin... Read more »

QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE UNVEIL NEW SONGLast week we revealed details of the new lineup for the next Queens of the Stone Age record, and linked to some audio ... Read more »

The ascent of Michael Render, aka Killer Mike, and Jaime Meline, aka El-P has been spectacular and apparently unstoppable, but it has to be said that it&rsqu... Read more »

Top Ten Events Northwest 5-12 Sep: Tim Hetherington, Conquering Animal Sound + Canal Festival       ... Read more »

Don't be fooled by the fact that it's the now arena-striding Tame Impala who appear to have emerged at the top of the pile in the wake of the much-debated ps... Read more »

Top Ten Events Northwest 30 Jan-6 Feb: Horse Meat Disco, Sharon Lockhart + Independent Venue Week       &n... Read more »

On the day that Thatcher died, Mogwai’s Barry Burns was in his adopted home of Berlin, missing out on the George Square Thatcher Death Party his band h... Read more »

It's a feel good story that even Bill Forsyth would be proud of. Four years ago, Gary Watson was a 16-year-old busker playing acoustic covers in a retail cen... Read more »

Henry Rollins isn’t quite 55 yet, even if he claims as such during the course of this interview. It’s revealing that he thinks in such terms; he ... Read more »

Top Events Northwest 18 Dec-1 Jan | The Bug, Mythopoeia II + The Snowman Clubs 1. The Bug ft Flowdan Islingt... Read more »

“This record is fairly safe,” says Thurston Moore of his new solo album, The Best Day. “I think the record’s good… but it&rsqu... Read more »

Ever since his breakthrough hit, 1999's Put Your Hands Up For Detroit, Matthew Dear has been on the cutting edge of electronic music. Co-founder of the Ghost... Read more »

Whether you're a first-time visitor to Liverpool or a resident with money burning a hole in your pocket, as a music fan you'll be looking for the city's best... Read more »

Listening to the music of Essex-born Stuart Howard, aka Lapalux, the listener is submerged in a layered, richly textured sonic environment. The producer pref... Read more »

FRIGHTENED RABBIT ON CONANFrightened Rabbit are conquering the USA one concert hall at a time, playing headline shows across the length and breadth of the co... Read more »

HOLLYWOOD BLOCKBUSTERS: TOO BIG TO FAIL?An article this week on io9.com looked at the economics of so-called 'tent-pole' or summer event movies, analysing th... Read more »

Death Grips burst into the musical collective consciousness in 2011 with Exmilitary, a tour-de-force of punk attitude, soundsystem bass weight and no-holds-b... Read more »

In their own right, Mogwai are amongst the great survivors of both post-rock and the Glasgow scene from which they emerged in the mid-nineties; they are now ... Read more »