WATCH: Tricky – Is That Your Life

We talk to Tricky about his new video for the False Idols track

Not-So-Bitter Music: Ali ‘Perc’ Wells On His Favourite 13 Albums

We've sent that young rascal Tonka to interview Ali Wells about the albums that made him Perc, from Huey Lewis & The News to Pete Swanson, Aphex, and how Iron Maiden made his kick drum mockery-proof

Chaos Before Integrity: Claude Speeed Interviewed

Scottish ambient producer Stuart Turner tells Laurie Tuffrey about Sun Czar Temple, his excellent debut EP on Planet Mu, released this week

Rocket Recordings Details New Compilation, ‘Elsewhere VXIII’

The 14-track release features tracks compiled by Brussels-based DJ soFa

Powell’s Books: A Baker’s Dozen Special Edition

Electronic music producer Powell picks favourite books by Baudrillard, Derrida, Kafka, and Susan Sontag

Prole Art Threat: Cynthia Cruz On The Melancholia Of Class

With her new book The Melancholia of Class just out from Repeater Books, author Cynthia Cruz talks to Enrico Monacelli about identity politics, class consciousness, and why Mark E. Smith was one of the great working class militants of the 20th Century

The Language Of Violence – The Pixies Play Live

The Pixies played live in an art gallery this week. John Doran found himself flung into a world of torrid text and the imagist poetry of violence. Live gallery by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net

Piano Interrupted

The Unified Field

65daysofstatic Announce New Album

Wild Light due in September

INTERVIEW: Toots Hibbert Unplugged

The Act Of Ruminating: An Interview With Sophie Mackintosh

Following 2018’s Booker longlisted *The Water Cure* and 2020’s *Blue Ticket*, Sophie Mackintosh’s latest book marks the author’s first foray into historical fiction. In an interview with Miles Ellingham she talks interiors, wash houses and the fickleness of memory

INTERVIEW: Neil Finn

We talk to the Crowded House frontman about his forthcoming solo album Dizzy Heights, his first in over a decade

Synthesizer Soul: Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s 30 Years On

On the 30th anniversary of its release, Vince Clarke tells John Freeman how Yazoo’s groundbreaking debut album was all about "the singing and the tunes"