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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
As part of the cultural programme around the Glasgow Commonwealth Games, King Creosote has soundtracked archive footage of Scottish people at work and play. He discusses the project, resulting new album From Scotland With Love, life, death and identity with Nicola Meighan
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
This September, Interpol release their new album El Pintor. It's both their first in four years and their first without founding bassist Carlos Dengler. In an exclusive interview, Matt Foster meets Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler and Sam Fogarino to find out how they dealt with losing a band member and to talk about a record that fully encases both sides of their personality
With the deep-freeze grime of 'Take Time' with Novelist still resounding in our ears, Mumdance meets Harry Sword to discuss his newly released mix CD with Pinch, the importance of musical context, and working with mahraganat artists in Cairo
As Bronze Teeth, L/F/D/M's Richard Smith and Factory Floor's Dominic Butler craft scorchingly abrasive, gnarled beat tracks inspired by rave sound systems and the patterns of nature. With their debut 12" released this week on Diagonal, they speak to Joe Clay about crowbarring open dance music to uncover new things inside
Matthew Kent catches up with Ravi Binning to discuss the brilliantly stripped-back rhythmic machinations of his latest Thought Broadcast album Votive Zero, improvisation as a freeing tool, and the crucial distinctions between noise and techno
With the Japanese shapeshifters' nineteenth album Noise released this month, Tristan Bath meets the mighty Boris in London to discuss the background noise of life, their many collaborative projects and, of course, guitar feedback
Harry Sword meets the not-so-shadowy duo behind the belting Italo-gabber-techno of Blacknecks, responsible for some of the Quietus' favourite club bangers of the year so far, to chat boogie nights, tape loops and cereal boxes
With their latest album Paradise Freaks just released, Ben Graham catches up with Pete Fowler and Jon Tye to discuss how Seahawks emerged from refracting the duo's love of 70s AOR through a filter of weird noise, psychedelia and dub
Chrissie Hynde is releasing her first-ever solo album. But never mind that. Just let her talk. Because the legendary Pretenders leader can talk for London, England, for Akron, Ohio or anywhere else you care to mention. Oh boy, can she talk. Simon Price listens
Following the 30th anniversary reissue of Aztec Camera’s debut High Land Hard Rain, frontman Roddy Frame releases his latest album on Edwyn Collins’ AED label. He talks to Lucy O’Brien about songwriting, Mark Knopfler’s guitar strings and Scottish independence
Our second Iain Sinclair feature to mark the 70x70 Finale event at Barbican this weekend sees Nick Talbot interview Alan Moore about his relationship with the writer, perspectives on psychogeography, and influence each has had on the other's work
Ahead of his 70x70 Finale event at Barbican this weekend, Tim Burrows meets up with Iain Sinclair to discuss filmmaking, the Beats and 1960s counterculture, and the changing faces of London. Sinclair photos courtesy of Stanley Schtinter
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