Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
At the point where personal hygiene ends and Kraut-garage begins lie WARMDÜSCHER, a collaboration between members of Paranoid London and Fat White Family. They tell William Dickson about their raging live sets, debut LP Khaki Tears and why they want "to include everyone in the party"
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
Richie Troughton speaks to Mauritanian artist Noura Mint Seymali, the creator of one of the Quietus' favourite records of 2014, about new album Tzenni, navigating life in a globalised world and drawing traditional music into a modern context
The Zelig-like Anni Hogan has worked with everyone from Marc Almond and Nick Cave to The The and Nico but don't forget she's also a strong musician in her own right, as her new album Lost In Blue attests. Feature by Cathi Unsworth. All portraits courtesy of Peter Ashworth