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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
The American saxophonist and the British sound artist are collaborating on a series of live shows programmed by the national experimental touring network OUTLANDS, which is currently travelling across the UK. Claire Sawers speaks to the duo about their work together
Steady the ship, ready the engines, sail forth through the infinite black portal of space and dream - once fitful sleep overtakes you - of turbulent purple seas over a desolate planet. It’s Hawkwind, b’gads, and Harry Sword is talking to Captain Dave Brock ahead of this weekend's Desertfest
Ahead of his appearance at Liverpool Sound City on Sunday, Mart Avi talks to Lottie Brazier about music that dreams of the future, the internet as “the mother city”, John Peel’s escapades in Estonia and coming of age with an unusual larynx
Ahead of the ambitious Galaxies 12x12 project at the Barbican on April 14, Thurston Moore talks to John Doran about why he has formed an orchestra of 12 strings and how this relates to Sun Ra, Glenn Branca and his roots in No Wave...
With 1993’s The Very Crystal Speed Machine set to get its first UK release as part of their Righteously Remastered box set, reunited rock & roll preachers Thee Hypnotics tell Julian Marszalek about the album that should have made them but instead wore them down
Ahead of FAKA's appearance at Rewire 2018, Desire Marea talks to Claire Sawers about the how the South African performance art duo are breaking new sonic ground with their infectious, fabulous, politicised mix of gqom, gospel and ancestral percussion
Even when Canadian singer songwriter and experimental musician Eric Chenaux is talking about cruising, dropping acid to the butthole surfers or dancing to D'Angelo he's actually talking about his philosophical approach to the inimitable music he makes. Or maybe even his approach to life itself. Words: John Doran. Home page portrait: JB Deucher
Nobody lives house music and its many contradictions like Honey Dijon. From soundtracking the catwalks of Louis Vuitton to playing at Panorama Bar, she straddles different worlds with deceptive ease but being a black trans artist is not an easy path to tread, says Manu Ekanayake
Marc Hollander of Aksak Maboul and Crammed Discs talks to Sean Kitching about the consistent thread running through the different chapters of his band, the progress of their forthcoming fourth album, Rock In Opposition and cultural cross-pollination
The Manic Street Preachers thought they might never make another album again, then along came Resistance Is Futile. Patrick Clarke meets Nicky Wire to discuss a record that's either the start of a great new era or the end of it all