50 years ago, John Cale found himself at Heartbreak Hotel, producing sweet and unhinged music from its rooms. Reassessing Fear, Slow Dazzle and Helen Of Troy, Darran Anderson explores the musician’s remarkable year-long burst of creativity for Island Records, half a century on
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