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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
As the band prepare for the release of new album Everything Was Forever, Sea Power's Jan Scott Wilkinson discusses the influence of his "kooky but endearing" family, dropping 'British' from the band's name, and the pros and cons of chaos
Following the release of their collaborative album with the late Tony Allen, Joan As Police Woman and Dave Okumu take part in an exclusive two-way interview that covers the former's love of New York, the latter's impeccable sense of style, obsessions from Grace Jones to Julian Barratt, artistic process, dream collaborations and much, much more...
As she prepares for the final instalment in a triptych of audacious singles, the polymathic Martha Skye Murphy speaks to Patrick Clarke about deep connections, the hubris of Jeff Bezos, and the value of keeping things uncomfortable
The once-obscure Japanese minimalist, whose 1983 album 'Through The Looking Glass' has now become one of the most celebrated ambient releases from the country, talks with Patrick St. Michel about her interest in African music, ahead of her appearance at Le Guess Who? festival
As they release the album 'Embassy Nocturnes', and premiere the video for 'Lights In The Driveway' exclusively with tQ, two of Britain's very finest left-field outfits speak to Patrick Clarke about their entrancing new collaborative project
Drawing upon sound samples, classical training in piano and personal and wider histories, Donia Jarrar spoke with Ned Raggett about creating the Phonodelica project, dealing with teenage friends dissing her about Björk and when her parents mistook a guitar for a train
In their very first interview about a new album of protest songs, The Specials' Terry Hall, Lynval Golding and Horace Panter speak to Patrick Clarke about how political music and the energy of Black Lives Matter lifted them from pandemic-enforced inertia
Ahead of Rewire festival Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to the Swedish artist, musician and composer about prison hauntings, being thrown out of bible study, collectivity in music making and the power of the drone to alter perceptions of time and place
Billy Reeves of Theaudience had his life thrown upside down in 2001 by a terrible car accident, he tells Fergal Kinney, and now his new band, The Helicopter Of The Holy Ghost, have released an album of old songs he can't even remember writing. N.B. readers who have been in traumatic traffic accidents may find some of the descriptions in this interview difficult to read
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