Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
Even though her song 'Video Games' emerged a couple of months back, Lana Del Rey has already experienced equal parts adulation and suspicion. Here, John Calvert speaks to her about David Lynch, New York and the ghosts that hide behind her 'white picket-fenced cheer'. The NSFW YouTube clip contains strobing images
Ahead of her live soundtrack at Branchage this weekend. David Moats talks to harpist and songwriter Serafina Steer about her work with John Foxx and Patrick Wolf, being classically trained, the difficulties of doing live soundtracks and psychedelia.
Both as Emeralds guitarist and solo, Mark McGuire's instrumentals recall the exploratory spirit of early kosmische synth music, while establishing a distinct identity of their own. He talks to Rory Gibb about the development of his technique, writing music and "the psychedelic nature of all existence"