Spotlighting the impact of cultural landmarks
For 25 years David Stubbs has been having bad dreams and attempting to put endings on them like he comes out a winner but thanks to the Butthole Surfers' finest album, Locust Abortion Technician, he's been getting nowhere
Thirty-five years on from 4AD's reissue of the first volume of recordings of Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, label founder Ivo Watts-Russell describes the epiphany that led to his tracking down the mysterious voices of the Bulgarian folk singers to release their music on his label. Interview by Richie Troughton
Three decades after the release of Spiderland, Joe Kennedy argues that those who waffle endlessly about post rock have made a mistake in ignoring "a lyrical blueprint which places Gothic imagery at the service of modernist ambiguity"