Reviews

Different Trains 1947 At The Barbican To Feature Actress And More

Actress, These New Puritans' Jack Barnett and more will feature as part of an upcoming series of audiovisual concerts at the Barbican and other venues

Playing For Keeps: Cate Le Bon’s Favourite Albums

With her UK tour just started, singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon tells John Freeman about how an attitude of playfulness runs through her 13 top LPs

Urchins Livin’ Under The Street: Adelle Stripe On The Prime Of Guns N’ Roses

Like a throbbing, yowling time capsule, this wildly completist package of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction is almost enough to send you back to their ferocious, feral, filthy heyday

Teeth Of The Sea Vs Wire

Collaboration at DRILL:LONDON festival with Wire. Image by Al Overdrive

Lou Reed’s ‘New York’ To Be Reissued

The deluxe edition release will feature remastered recordings, unreleased tracks, a concert film, and more

Tariq Goddard On PJ Harvey Live At The Albert Hall

Tariq Goddard reviews PJ Harvey at the Royal Albert Hall and finds that, for once, the critical consensus is correct. PJ Harvey live by Shot2bits

Films For Music: Frank Zappa’s Cinematic Legacy

Anthony Nield looks back over Zappa's contributions to the world of film and uncovers the curious work of animator Bruce Bickford

My Left Shin: Kristin Hersh On Art, Inspiration & Vic Chestnutt

Petra Davis talks to Kristin Hersh about her solo record _Crooked_, a new Throwing Muses album and the death of the music industry. All photographs by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net

INTERVIEW: Drokk At The Dark Outside

Ben Salisbury and Geoff Barrow will be blasting live electronics into Galloway Forest tomorrow night, effects pedals and bacon in tow. Here, Salisbury gives us the inside track about the performance, as well as their work on the score for Alex Garland's new film Ex Machina

Not The Greatest Dancer: The Return Of Altern 8… And Crez

Not many 46-year-old professionals moonlight as dancers for early-90s rave acts; however, with Altern 8’s popularity enjoying a resurgence, Martyn Cresswell didn’t need to be asked twice to get back on stage. Words: Scott Oliver

Adrian Flanagan Details Debut Album As Acid Klaus

'Step On My Travelator: The Imagined Career Trajectory Of Superstar DJ & Dance-Pop Producer, Melvin Harris' is the latest project from the International Teachers Of Pop and The Moonlandingz man

Horticulturial Music: Cosey Fanni Tutti On Gardening

In the latest Quietus At Leisure film, we visit Cosey Fanni Tutti's Norfolk garden to find out about her love of getting her hands dirty in the natural world

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