Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
By day, Cory Rayborn's a business and environmental lawyer, by night (often five nights in a row, packaging records by hand) he's putting out limited-run releases by the likes of Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn and Sun City Girls. As his label Three Lobed marks 15 years of operations, he talks to JR Moores
Before she plays the Tate Modern's Turbine Festival this weekend, the producer and genre-scouring NTS DJ talks to Olivia Cheves about her ethnomusicology studies, sampling internet pornography and flipping music industry image conventions. Photographs courtesy of Rosie Harriet Ellis
The Colombia-via-Virginia singer's latest release, Por Vida, saw her refining her soul-inflected pop, coloured with the sounds of the past, to its finest iteration yet, aided by Snoop Dogg and a cast of other famous faces. With a debut album proper in the works, she talks to Mof Gimmers
Legendary producer Tony Visconti has recently been revisiting one of his classic Bowie recordings, The Man Who Sold The World, with a tour and a live album. Simon Price asks him about the Dame, Bolan, Sparks, the Manics, and more
Nashville-via-Brooklyn musician Mackenzie Scott's second album Sprinter is a bracingly honest and diverse record, which moves from howling rock grind to fractured introspection in addressing themes of mortality and loss. On her recent stop in the UK, she traced its roots with Alex Robert Ross
After The Jim Jones Revue called time on proceedings last year, their main man decided he was ready for a new project, located somewhere between his old band's barnstorming rock & roll and dreamier territory. He tells Julian Marszalek about their "heavy lounge" before they make their UK debut
The prolific Finnish multi-instrumentalist has left behind his job as a part-time tram driver to produce one of the best pop albums of the year. With the record out this week and a London gig imminent, he talks to Laurie Tuffrey
Repurposing discarded Walkmans, TVs and other scrap heap finds, Stephen Cornford's work erases the boundaries between music and sculpture. He tells Robert Barry why he's using it as a means to question our consumerist habits