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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
With his third record for Nic Tasker's Whities imprint just released, Angus Finlayson, otherwise known as Minor Science, speaks to John Thorp about reconciling his role as a music journalist at Resident Advisor with his work as a producer and DJ
Jeremy Allen interviews Carla Bruni in Paris about her new album French Touch, but politics is strictly interdict. “I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don’t care, do you understand?”
After becoming a target of online trolls from the alt-right's most lunatic fringes, the prolific master of noise and free jazz, Arrington de Dionyso, discusses his response: his visceral, confrontational new project, This Saxophone Kills Fascists
Ipek Gorgun's solo works are like choreographed chemical reactions on a micro scale or a terraforming planet on a macro scale. Here she reveals how silence, ontology and the physicality of sound influence her rich fusions of ambient and noise. Portrait by Nazli Erdemirel
For their most recent album Adult.'s Adam Lee Miller and Nicola Kuperus invited the likes of Douglas McCarthy and Shannon Furness into their Detroit home for a uniquely intimate recording process. Ahead of their UK tour this week, they discuss the pre-session hoovering with Luke Turner. Scroll down for an exclusive look at their new video below.
Ewan Pearson was the academic who became a remixer, the remixer who became a DJ, and the DJ who became a producer of some of the best-sounding records of recent years. But if it hadn't been for a ZX Spectrum he might still be listening to Rory Gallagher, says Michael Hann
Ahead of his performance at Outernational Days next week, Lebanese electronic musician and Morphine label head Rabih Beaini talks to Rory Gibb about the challenges and emerging possibilities of collaboration across countries and cultures
As Algiers release second album The Underside Of Power, an explosive combination of gospel, noise and righteous politics, Luke Turner visited the band on the Berlin leg of their current European stadium tour with Depeche Mode.
The Black Angels take a long, dark trip on their new album Death Song. Guitarist Christian Bland tells Julian Marszalek why psychedelics might help change things for the better, and about being the parents of psychedelia's live revival
Ahead of Manchester International Festival's Tony Wilson and Factory Records remembrance event on July 10, Stuart Huggett takes a retrospective look at every album released by Factory Records’ classical music imprint, including new interviews with key players in its story
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