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Peter Hook Calls New Order “Empty Shell”

Former bassist tells the BBC about the band's split

Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed

To celebrate this week's Blu-ray release (in the UK at least) of Repo Man, director Alex Cox reflects on the 1984 cult classic, subsequent battles with Hollywood and Hunter S. Thompson, and why it's fine to pirate his work. Interview by our Boston scribe Craig Terlino

LISTEN: New Memoryhouse Album

Listen to an exclusive stream of Memoryhouse's upcoming debut album for Sub Pop, The Slideshow Effect, and read the band talking through the album track-by-track

Apple U-Turn ‘Not Down To Swift’

PIAS Managing Director releases statement after the label group signs up to new terms offered by Apple Music; says Apple's change of heart "not entirely down to Taylor Swift"

Part One – An Introduction: Main Feed The Collapse

Neil Kulkarni wants to look beyond the usual suspects talked about in anniversary features in his new series: A New Nineties. He starts by interviewing Robert Hampson of Main

Chasing Perfectionism: An Interview With Source Direct

Few have crafted electronic music as virtuosic, as moving and as futuristic as groundbreaking drum & bass duo Source Direct did in the late 1990s. In one of his first interviews since returning to action, including a set at Fabric tomorrow, Jim Baker speaks to Harry Sword about Source Direct past and present, searching for futurism in sound, and the tantalising prospect of new music on the horizon

Just The Music: ZULI Interviewed

Following the release of ZULI's debut LP on UIQ, Mollie Zhang catches up with him to hear about his love of sampling, frustrations with music press and almost-rap career

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Through A Pre-Memory

Chumbawamba Split

They get knocked down, they don't get back up again etc

Time Becomes A Loop: William Basinski Interviewed

John Doran talks to William Basinski about the tenth anniversary of The Disintegration Loops. Main picture by Peter J. Kierzkowski