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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists

Total Ledge Mate! The Shining’s Jørgen Munkeby Interviewed

Dean Brown talks to Shining (NOR) mainman Jørgen Munkeby about taking risks both physical and musical. Includes video for 'The Last Stand'

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Baby, It’s Okay To Be Slutty: Chastity Belt Interviewed

The Seattle-based four-piece's singer and guitarist Julia Shapiro talks to Anna Wood about the underuse of the word labia, calling out mansplaining and taking lyrical inspiration from John Carpenter's 1982 cinematic masterpiece

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Micachu & the Shapes: No Pigs Were Harmed In The Making Of This LP

For their latest, Good Sad Happy Bad, experimental pop group Micachu & The Shapes sank a few then confined themselves to a rehearsal space for a stripped-down, marathon recording session; some metal ensued, as they tell DJ Pangburn

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Boundless Intonations: An Interview With Jessica Pratt

The Californian singer-songwriter talks to Suzie McCracken about following up the excellent On Your Own Love Again, lyrical ambiguities and playing games with language before she plays Hackney's MIRRORS festival

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Sing It Again: Rod Stewart Interviewed

After five decades at the top, Rod Stewart finds himself telling Chris Roberts about stage-fright and swagger, recovery from illness, disco fever, wearing too much make-up and missing his shin pads

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It’s A Dirty Job: Workin’ Man Noise Unit Interviewed

With their debut album Play Loud due imminently, Matt Ridout talks to the Reading four-piece about embedding hooks within the noise, Julian Cope and potato grading, and we premiere their video for Yeah, I Was Hypnotised

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Full Metal Racket: Aino Tytti Interviewed

After taking part in William Basinski's Arcadia series last year, Sheffield-born sound artist Aino Tytti tells Robert Barry about embarking on his second project for Touch, a sonic exploration of London's Millennium Mills

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Get Off Your Ass And Jam: Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura Interviewed

Purveyors of explosive live shows and chaotic jams, the Manchester guitar Arkestra talk to Danny Riley about being the new standard bearers for DIY transcendentalism in the UK and finding artistry in the undignified

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“Direct And From The Gut”: With The Dead’s Lee Dorrian Interviewed

The former Cathedral man and Rise Above boss talks to Harry Sword before he releases the debut LP by his doom supergroup with Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening. Plus, watch the new video for Crown Of Burning Stars

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Keep On Moving: Jazzie B Of Soul II Soul Interviewed

Yousif Nur meets the Soul II Soul DJ/frontman and talks London, production and sound systems

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Organ Heritage: Anna Von Hausswolff Interviewed

Anna von Hausswolff tells John freeman how her extraordinary third album, The Miraculous, was inspired by a mystical family retreat and created on the mighty Acusticum Pipe Organ of Piteå

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Weird Wares: An Interview With Giant Swan

Purveyors of a pummelling, noise-rinsed, techno-not-techno barrage - as well as doing a fine line in casual wear - Bristol duo Giant Swan talk to Seb Wheeler before they play their hometown at Simple Things later this month

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Absence Makes The Art Go Further: Thighpaulsandra Interviewed

In a rare interview, Thighpaulsandra talks to Russell Cuzner about how prog rock, synthesisers, and being part of Coil have culminated in his first solo album in nine years

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Right Side Of The Water: Likholmen Interviewed

Northern Norwegian collective Likholmen today release their debut album, Lillelivet, and a compelling 45-minute companion film. Co-founder Erling Ramskjell explains the genesis of his latest mission to Wyndham Wallace

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Toronto Noise: An Interview With Dilly Dally

Half of Dilly Dally, founders Katie Monks and Liz Ball, meet up with John Freeman in their hometown of Toronto to tell him about their excellent debut album, Sore, and the city's burgeoning industrial punk-pop scene

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Unfinished Business: New Order Interviewed

Don't call it a comeback... John Doran talks to New Order about their best album in a quarter of a century

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Traces Of People: An Interview With Matana Roberts

Before she begins her European tour with dates in London and Brighton, the composer, saxophonist and visual artist talks to Stewart Smith about interpreting African-American history through her epic COIN COIN project

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Powers Of Horror: Oneohtrix Point Never Interviewed

Karl Smith talks to Daniel Lopatin aka Oneohtrix Point Never about his new WARP album, Garden Of Delete, our obsession with the grotesque and relinquishing control

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“Static Violence, Static Death”: Low’s Alan Sparhawk Interviewed

Daniel Ross talks to Alan Sparhawk about surviving as a cult band for two decades or more...

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Up The Pub! An Interview With Primitive Parts

The London trio tell Joe Clay about their no-frills post-punk, influenced by both Dr Feelgood and doomed video rental chains, and take in lyrical obscuring and plans for a new automotive playback format in the process

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The Difficulty Of Love: King Midas Sound And Fennesz Interviewed

John Doran meets Christian Fennesz, Kiki Hitomi, Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin in Tilburg, NL, after their first ever live performance together at Incubate festival. They discuss their excellent new album Edition 1, the difficulty of romance, the nature of melancholy and their memories of rain

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Shakedown The Breakdown: Girl Band Get Serious

Ian Maleney talks to the Irish noiseniks about drinking Dave Grohl's ale and the serious story behind their surreal lyrics

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Northern Uproar: An Interview With Autobahn

John Freeman meets up with the Leeds-based post-punks to find out why a dark sense of humour, dry ice and finding a nice spot to depart this mortal coil are at the heart of their debut album, Dissemble

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Capital Realism: John Foxx And Iain Sinclair Hold Court

Overgrown, overground, rambling free, John Foxx and Iain Sinclair meet up for food to discuss their mutual obsession with London. Words by Emily Bick. Photographs by Al Overdrive

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Raining Mud: Tom Araya Of Slayer Interviewed

Harry Sword talks to Tom Araya of Slayer about a life of trains, planes, automobiles and extreme aggression

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Meat, Beats, No Manifestos: An Interview With group A

Embarking on a European tour ahead of their third album 70+a='s release, the Tokyo industrial-noise duo discuss Throbbing Gristle, performing half naked and the lying liar of a Japanese prime minister with Karen Shook

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Black And Blue: Keith Richards Interviewed

Julian Marszalek meets the Rolling Stones guitarist and living legend to talk race, drugs and persistence. Portraits by Mark Seliger. Studio shot by Kevin Mazur

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All Her Yesterdays: Rose McDowall Interviewed

Ben Graham talks to the Strawberry Switchblade member and Current 93/Psychic TV collaborator about the reissue of her Cut With The Cake Knife album. Colour portraits by Gilbert Blecken

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As If By Magic: Carter Tutti Void Interviewed

Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void have made one of tQ's favourite albums so far this year, f(x). John Doran interviews the trio at the C&C Music Factory in the Norfolk

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Independence & Influence: Seymour Stein Interviewed

Richard Foster meets the visionary entrepreneur who has been working near the heart of the music business since 1958

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Ghost Songs: An Interview With Sea Lion

The Gothenburg-based singer-songwriter tells John Freeman why the creation of the spectral, highly intimate songs on her exquisite debut album Desolate Stars was driven out of a desire to feel "grounded and present"

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“It’s Music That Makes You Dance” – ESG Interviewed

Melissa Steiner talks to Renee Scroggins of seminal South Bronx, New York City punk funk outfit, ESG

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Total Ledge Mate! The Shining’s Jørgen Munkeby Interviewed

Baby, It’s Okay To Be Slutty: Chastity Belt Interviewed

Micachu & the Shapes: No Pigs Were Harmed In The Making Of This LP

Boundless Intonations: An Interview With Jessica Pratt

Sing It Again: Rod Stewart Interviewed

It’s A Dirty Job: Workin’ Man Noise Unit Interviewed

Full Metal Racket: Aino Tytti Interviewed

Get Off Your Ass And Jam: Desmadrados Soldados De Ventura Interviewed

“Direct And From The Gut”: With The Dead’s Lee Dorrian Interviewed

Keep On Moving: Jazzie B Of Soul II Soul Interviewed

Organ Heritage: Anna Von Hausswolff Interviewed

Weird Wares: An Interview With Giant Swan

Absence Makes The Art Go Further: Thighpaulsandra Interviewed

Right Side Of The Water: Likholmen Interviewed

Toronto Noise: An Interview With Dilly Dally

Unfinished Business: New Order Interviewed

Traces Of People: An Interview With Matana Roberts

Powers Of Horror: Oneohtrix Point Never Interviewed

“Static Violence, Static Death”: Low’s Alan Sparhawk Interviewed

Up The Pub! An Interview With Primitive Parts

The Difficulty Of Love: King Midas Sound And Fennesz Interviewed

Shakedown The Breakdown: Girl Band Get Serious

Northern Uproar: An Interview With Autobahn

Capital Realism: John Foxx And Iain Sinclair Hold Court

Raining Mud: Tom Araya Of Slayer Interviewed

Meat, Beats, No Manifestos: An Interview With group A

Black And Blue: Keith Richards Interviewed

All Her Yesterdays: Rose McDowall Interviewed

As If By Magic: Carter Tutti Void Interviewed

Independence & Influence: Seymour Stein Interviewed

Ghost Songs: An Interview With Sea Lion

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