Max Loderbauer

LIVE REPORT: Synästhesie Festival 2019

Dan Dylan Wray finds himself at Synästhesie festival in Berlin, and pondering the Motorik continuum that started with Neu! and found its way to Deerhunter via Stereolab. Photograph on home page by Christoph Voy

INTERVIEW: Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu's David Thomas and Sean Kitching set out to have a conversation about their new album, Carnival Of Souls, out next week, and end up taking in the merits of melding acoustic, digital and analogue sounds and discussing the finer points of English prog

Music For Mallet Musicians: Ex-Easter Island Head Interviewed

Using mallets and guitars, Liverpool's Ex-Easter Island Head whip up tropical storm clouds of rhythm and natural reverberation. Simon Jay Catling speaks to the band's Benjamin Duvall about minimalism and making hypnotic music for £5 worth of bamboo

Something To Give Yourself To: An Interview With Piano Wire

After the curtain fell on The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's second act, that band's Andy Huxley and Sym Gharial began writing songs together. They tell Jeremy Allen about the innate weirdness of their brand of pop music and why Piano Wire are TEMBD's "spiritual heir"

Field Day Paris: Jamie XX, Four Tet & More

Floating Points joins line-up for one-off event next month

E3 Worldwide: Dizzee Rascal’s Favourite Albums

As Dizzee Rascal releases his first album since 2017, he guides Aaron Bishop through the songs that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from being the only black kid playing Nirvana on the estate to smoking with Snoop Dogg.

Questions Raised Over Dominick Fernow’s Collaborations

Culture journalist Jean-Hugues Kabuiku has shared a blog post highlighting connections between the artist and a number of ideologically questionable musicians

Jane Weaver

The Fallen By Watch Bird

Sleaford Mods

Key Markets

Cat Power

Dark End Of The Street

Shifted

Arrangements In Monochrome 1&2