Chris Fite-Wassilak's new book, *The Artist in Time: A Generation of Great British Creatives* talks to 20 British creatives born before 1950 about their process and their inspirations. Here, Fite-Wassilak talks us through the background to the book, followed by an extract from it, interviewing Anne Tallentire
With the UK leg of their European tour drawing to a close with sets in Bristol tonight and on the Quietus' Desertfest stage tomorrow, Lee Buford of the none-bleaker American sludge duo picks out 13 all-time top records and pens us his own Baker's Dozen
Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan