Delving Into Consciousness: Hamid Drake’s Favourite Music

Percussionist Hamid Drake guides Sean Kitching through 13 favourite albums of cosmic enlightenment courtesy of Alice and John Coltrane, Don Cherry, Ravi Shankar, Jimi Hendrix and much more. Photo by Ludmilla Faccenda

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Patrick Wolf Blasts “Neanderthals” Over Cock Calls

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Vienna And Voodoo: Tav Falco Interviewed

Pure cinema is black and white, mythology is truth and the American military industrial complex is destroying us. Panther Burns' Tav Falco discusses his new film, Urania Descending, among many other things. Kris Needs listens and learns. Photographs courtesy of Tav Falco

A Storm In Heaven: Verve’s Debut Album 25 Years On

Joe Clay laments the 25-year-old version of the Verve who hadn't yet fallen under the spell of Noel Gallagher...

Spotify Wrapped & Apple Music Replay Vie To Be The “John Lewis Ad” Of Streaming

The streaming services have become locked into an arms race to see who can own the end of year reveal, says Eamonn Forde. It's just that the artists who are, arguably, being badly treated and the listeners who foot the bill are the ones doing all of the heavy lifting when it comes to branding and marketing

Desperate Journalist

In Search Of The Miraculous

“Slacker At Heart, I Guess”: Stephen Malkmus Interviewed

Leah Pritchard talks to Stephen Malkmus about new LP Mirror Traffic, The Fall, golf, softball and hanging with the horse-hunting set

The Lost World: Morrison’s Car Park

In an exclusive extract from his new book Car Park Life, Gareth E. Rees explores the psychogeographic resonances of a Morrison's parking bay

William Tyler

The Impossible Truth

Clash of the Titans: The Cure vs Radiohead Live

The Cure and Radiohead are the twin titans of UK alternative rock but which group is better? Kevin E G Perry travels to Bilbao BBK to find out