DM Stith

Heavy Ghost Appendices

A Classic Kate Bush Interview: Exploring The Sensual World

As Kate Bush prepares to release a new LP based on her classic The Sensual World, we dig into the Rock's Backpages archive for a piece with Len Brown's 7 October 1989 NME interview looking at the background to the record, and her own track-by-track guide to the songs within.

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

Various Artists

Deeply Vale Box Set

No Longer An Allegory Of War: A Personal Reflection On Images & Conflict

Photographs of the dead in places of conflict are becoming increasingly more common as mobile phones can capture and share in an instant. But what is it like to know someone in such an image? London writer and poet Chimène Suleyman remembers growing up knowing her grandfather only through a photo taken after his death in Cyprus

Spools Out’s Out: Tristan Bath’s Top Tapes Of 2014

Tristan Bath rewinds 2014 to look at the the increasing popularity and creativity of the cassette release, and picks his favourite label and a selection of essential releases. Plus a mix!

Howls From The Soul: Bobby Gillespie’s Favourite Albums

After the release of Primal Scream's eleventh album, Chaosmosis, the singer boils his record collection down to a mean 13, a selection that formed his "own private world" while he was growing up in Glasgow

Prophets Of Time: Nik Turner’s Favourite Records

The space rock luminary and former member of Hawkwind, Sphynx and Inner City Unit guides Sean Kitching through 13 instructive and inspirational jazz, rock and soul records that have shaped him and his music

Meemo Comma

Loverboy

Lara Rix Martin’s latest for Planet Mu goes straight for the dizzying highs – and wretched lows – of the oft-eulogised 90s rave scene