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10 reccomended entry points into an artist’s back catalogue
Wherein the towering frontman of The Pop Group and The Maffia takes occasional breaks from busting writer Dustin Krcatovich's chops to look back on four decades of fire theft, including the recently reissued 1983 album Learning To Cope With Cowardice
In spite of a gradually accelerating reappraisal, a full portrait of composer Julius Eastman will most likely never surface, says Aimee Armstrong. Instead we’re left to track him through anecdotes, odd photographs and his politically charged and aggressively honest personal composition. A preview for this year's Intonal Festival.
Ahead of a night dedicated to the label as part of Berlin's Find The File festival, Alan Bishop, one of the founders of Sublime Frequencies, picks ten points of entry into the crucial label's extraordinary back catalogue of sounds from across the globe
Label founder Brian Shimkovitz talks to Richie Troughton about how his blog of obscure and rarely heard cassettes from Africa became a record label determined to locate artists and see them finally get the acclaim they deserve for their work
About to turn 84 and still going strong, Hans-Joachim Roedelius has led a long and extraordinary life, which has taken in Nazi Germany, postwar turmoil, the birth of Krautrock and working with Michael Rother and Brian Eno among others. His mind, however, is fixed on the present and the future, he tells David Stubbs
Before the release of Listening To Pictures: (Pentimento Volume One), his first new album in nine years and the launch of his own imprint label on Warp, experimental trumpeter and composer Jon Hassell talks Claire Sawers through ten important works in his back catalogue -- including one he wished he’d put his name to, and one still stuck in the pipeline
Cologne had Can and Jaki Liebezeit, South London had This Heat and Charles Hayward. Sean Kitching talks to the THINTH, Camberwell Now, Massacre and Monkey Puzzle Trio, drummer, singer and songwriter ahead of his performance at this weekend's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham
Just over a decade ago Donald Glover AKA Childish Gambino was a promising young comic actor and script writer who had a not very convincing side line as an indie hip hop musician. Aimee Armstrong examines how he became the world-bestriding talent who released This Is America
So, you've only heard Sex by The Necks... well, where do you go next? Thirty years into a career of ever-blossoming sonic exploration, Joe Richards has been speaking to Tony Buck (drums and percussion) and Lloyd Swanton (bass), two thirds of The Necks, ahead of their European tour and sold out show at Café OTO
Ben Graham meets the Felt, Denim and Go-Kart Mozart singer to talk pop dreams, the pursuit of fame, accidentally inventing indie and laying down the blueprint for Britpop, via ten key points in a varied and unique body of work. Homepage photo by PP Hartnett
Oliver Cookson sits down with Country Teasers frontman Ben Wallers to discuss ten points of entry into his extensive discography. They also talk "shit production", Kool Keith, Pink Floyd, fear of nuclear annihilation and his infamous 'Spakenkreuz' symbol
For almost forty years Steven Stapleton and friends have been sculpting dramatic dream worlds for our exploration and delectation. On the eve of headlining this weekend’s Tusk Festival in Newcastle, UK, we take a quick ride through the stellar Stapleton system to skim the surface of ten of Nurse With World’s key releases
Following the return of his ground-breaking ambient techno Gas project with Narkopop after a seventeen-year hiatus and a renewed live presence, Wolfgang Voigt speaks to Maria Perevedentseva about three decades of collapsing the boundaries between the minimal and the maximal, and the popular and the esoteric