A month out from the 20th anniversary edition of Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival, Kez Whelan reflects on how two decades of eclectic programming, a staunch DIY ethos and forward-thinking and inclusive politics have made it the British underground’s best-loved annual event
Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism
Marry Waterson might have been born into a folk dynasty but that didn't stop her becoming a biker. With a new LP out and her mother and uncle's Bright Phoebus LP recently reissued, she guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite LPs from The Beatles to The Band and Billie Holiday
Via his ensemble Melt Yourself Down, saxophonist Pete Wareham reimagines the rhythms and melodies of Nubia. Adam Quarshie caught up with him to discuss some of his influences, from the music of Egypt and Sudan to the music of East London.
Ahead of a show this Saturday at London's Southbank Centre, Catherine Anne Davies takes us through the 13 albums that have defined her life and work as The Anchoress, from childhood memories soundtracked by The Carpenters and lifechanging encounters with the Manics and PJ Harvey as a teen, to newfound infatuations with SZA and The 1975,
For much of the 1980s, Piero Pizzi Cannella was associated with the New School of Rome, a group of painters reinvigorating painting in the Italian capital. An exhibition of nine new works opened this month at Partners & Mucciaccia, London