Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
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
To mark his appearance at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival, we reprint an extract from New Humanist Magazine pamphlet On Community where Thurston Moore writes of his love of and life in the London area of Stoke Newington. Thurston in Abney Park cemetery photograph by Peter Beste, excellent headline by Rory Phillips
Both solo and as one half of Lakker, Dublin's Eomac is responsible for some of the most wiry, intricate and freakily banging club music around right now. Playing Corsica Studios this weekend, he tells Theo Darton-Moore about capturing the elusive energy of rave and his stellar new LP Spectre
Annette Peacock is a stone cold original - an innovator, an outlier, authentically sui generis. John Doran talks to her about the timely reissue of Revenge - an album she recorded in 1968 that still sounds fresh now. With thanks to Cindy Stern
Sound House, a new album by Walls based around interpretations and reworkings of material from Daphne Oram's sound archive, is released this month. Joe Clay caught up with the duo's Sam Willis to discuss the magic within Oram's pioneering experiments in electronic sound
Mr Neil Kulkarni - who may be a self-confessed balding 40-year old but is still unreasonably handsome - talks to Robert Hampson and Justin Broadrick about why Loop and Godflesh are not touring for the benefit of the hairless and aged. Classic Loop photo courtesy Mr Tom Sheehan
With Daniel Jones and James Bulley's new sound installation Living Symphonies opening this weekend in Thetford Forest, Rory Gibb traveled to the duo's studio to discover how they're translating the dynamics of a woodland ecosystem into self-generating orchestral music
Ahead of his Village Underground show, American singer-songwriter and producer Jonathan Wilson talks to John Freeman about the creation of "a degree of excellence" on his latest album Fanfare while updating the legacy of his beloved Laurel Canyon