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With music venues in crisis, does celebrating them as places where bands appeared on the way to fame overshadow their true purpose as the places in which music is played for the sake of communal joy, asks Luke Turner
As he launches a new label dedicated to contemporary classical music, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead talks to Patrick Clarke about his passion for classical, why Bach is like Kraftwerk, and the 'gruesome' intersection of prog rock and Rachmaninoff.
One-man studio WEIRDCORE has achieved notoriety for his furious, ultra-stroboscopic and often nightmarish visual work for a host of collaborators including Aphex Twin and The Caretaker. But he appreciates an opportunity to slow it down, he tells Jamie Ryder
Music copyright experts Guy Osborn (Professor of Law at the University of Westminster) and Simon Anderson (musician and music publisher) of Lost In Music cast their expert eye over the current plagiarism farrago and ask, are musicians doomed to be forever on repeat?
Philip Anschutz, an ultra-conservative multi-billionaire, is making a fortune on counterculture via the tours and festivals he promotes. The profits indirectly benefit some grim causes - but what can we do against it, asks Joost Heijthuijsen
Shye Ben Tzur, whose new album Junun featuring Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, 19 folk musicians from India and production from Nigel Godrich producing, speaks to Akhil Sood about recording inside a 15th century fort in India and the mechanics of fusing contrasting musical disciplines
Dan Richards speaks to Radiohead and Thom Yorke artworker, Holloway collaborator, friend and fellow hedge enthusiast Stanley Donwood about the blurred lines between sleeping and waking life, keeping demons out of his house and the big red non-spiders on the front of his new book, Humor
Music lover and bestselling author Ian Rankin seems to be just one of many Radiohead fans who have yet to receive their deluxe edition of King Of Limbs. Here he explains why a Kafkaesque palava has left him disillusioned with the band.
Following the launch of his Kapsela label and the recent release of a new two-track EP, the Berlin-based DJ and producer talks singing Tears For Fears at karaoke as a child and teenage discoveries of Autechre, Björk, At The Drive-In and much more
Ahead of his excellent latest album, Great Spans of Muddy Time, William Doyle - fka East India Youth, whose debut EP was first ever record released on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation - talks us through his Baker’s Dozen. William Doyle photo by Ryan MacPhail
The Manchester indie band's frontman gives Christopher Sanders a tour of the formative records of his teenage years, and explains why they, along with Australia's longest-running soap opera, have made a lasting impression
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