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Mr Agreeable: Like Ten Thousand Spoons When All He Needs Is A Gun

Over a breakfast of lightly grilled kippers Mr Agreeable casts his sparkling eye over news concerning Razorlight, Oasis and My Bloody Valentine.

Germane Ideas: The Pre New interviewed

Julian Marszalek sits down with true head Jim Fry to talk pop music, pop art and pop culture

Witness The Change: Trevor Jackson Interviewed

He’s an elusive artist fuelled by his passion for progressive music and outsider sounds. But Trevor Jackson's new compilation dedicated to the EBM, post-punk and industrial dance acts of the ’80s unveils a fondness for the past. We spoke to him to find out more

The Duke of Disquiet: An interview with Andy Cairns of Therapy?

As Therapy? release a record-breaking fourteenth studio album Disquiet, frontman Andy Cairns reflects on darkness, difficulties and turning fifty after a lifetime in music

Room To Live: Dave Haslam On Sylvia Plath & Ian Curtis

They took their own lives, and each have had posthumous fame and now inhabit a significant place in our culture. But Dave Haslam suggests the manner of their deaths distorted our perception of Sylvia Plath and Ian Curtis

Autechre To Release Remix Of Rave Classic By Humanoid

The duo have reworked 'sT8818r', an updated 2019 version of the 1988 track 'Stakker Humanoid'

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Sun and Shade

WIN: The Sea And Cake Tickets

We've got a pair of tickets for Chicago indie quartet's set at The Scala next week

Test Dept Play New Cross

Racket imminent in SW London

WATCH: New Membranes Video

Membranes return with their first new album since 2015, and a video for new track 'A Strange Perfume'

LISTEN: Desertfest Spotify Playlist

Ace Spotify playlist of artists performing at next month's event for your weekend delectation

Studio Ghibli Adds Soundtracks To Streaming Services

The scores to almost all 23 of the Japanese animation studio's films are now available to listen to on-demand

Watain’s The Wild Hunt: A Track By Track Review

Toby Cook fires up the life pipe and reclines on a chaise lounge made from human thigh bones to give you his first listen impressions of the new Watain album

A Document in Time: Neil Halstead Of Slowdive’s Baker’s Dozen

With Slowdive reformed and about to release their fourth album (as well as playing Field Day and Roskilde), Neil Halstead tells Joe Clay about the gateway albums that influenced him the most. Photo by Ingrid Pop.

Mike & Rich

Expert Knob Twiddlers (Reissue)

(13 On The) Wheels Of Steel: Biff Byford Of Saxon’s Favourite LPs

Biff Byford guides Michael Hann through the 13 records of riff-heavy magic that shaped Saxon