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Arsenic And Old Places: Kemper Norton Interviewed

Kemper Norton has just released a new album Brunton Calciner, which is replete with references to Cornish industry, amorous miners and the arsenic trade... but there's more to his music than the land beyond the Tamar, he tells John Doran

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Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited

The Metal Machine Trio tour of the UK and Europe starts this Sunday. Their leader Lou Reed has always trod the fine line between 'rock & roll star' and 'serious artist', and never more so than on his 1975 album, _Metal Machine Music_. John Doran asks him about this period . . . and waits a painfully long time for the answers

Technics Reveals New Home Listening Turntable

The SL-100C is described as an "entry level" deck and will retail at £799

Mike Donovan

How To Get Your Record Played In Shops

Prolific Sic Alps and Peacers veteran makes an album of misanthropic bedroom genius

Touching Base With France’s Former First Lady: Carla Bruni Interviewed

Jeremy Allen interviews Carla Bruni in Paris about her new album French Touch, but politics is strictly interdict. “I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Trump, I wish good luck to Mr and Mrs Macron, and I don’t care, do you understand?”

The Amorphous Androgynous: A Monstrous Psychedelic YouTube Party

Turn On, Tune In, YouTube Out. Gaz Cobain of Amorphous Androgynous invites us all back to his

Pulse LAX: An Interview With Nguzunguzu

LA duo Nguzunguzu's thoughtful and playful party music draws for global sounds and the mechanics of the UK dancefloor. With new EP Warm Pulse just released, Angus Finlayson met them to discuss throwing DJ curveballs and the life of grime

Wanderlust: Steve Gunn Interviewed

With Eyes On The Lines, the singer-songwriter has produced one of 2016's finest guitar albums. He tells Barnaby Smith about going from adolescent hardcore acolyte to channelling the fretboard dexterity of John Fahey

Ephemeral Now: An Interview With Ipek Gorgun

Ipek Gorgun's solo works are like choreographed chemical reactions on a micro scale or a terraforming planet on a macro scale. Here she reveals how silence, ontology and the physicality of sound influence her rich fusions of ambient and noise. Portrait by Nazli Erdemirel

Snakebitten: An Interview With Visionist

South London's Visionist refracts his history in grime into icy, haunted electronic music, rich in atmosphere and emotion. Having had a prolific 2013, he sits down with Daniel Cohen to discuss his work to date and where he's heading next

Return Of The American Primitive: Joe Cardamone Interviewed

The Icarus Line is dead, but Joe Cardamone lives on. Ahead of his appearance at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, he tells Stevie Chick about his searing new multimedia project, making art in the era of Trump, and how he survived the end of the greatest rock & roll band of his generation. Videos NSFW

Slowdive Are Working On A New Album

Rachel Goswell says band hope the album will be finished by July. Photo courtesy of Simon Sarin

Mute Talk Liberation Technologies Imprint

Rory Gibb spoke to Mute's Daniel Miller and Patrick O'Neill about the launch of Mute's new electronic music label, Liberation Technologies

Infinitely Inspired By The Club: Total Freedom Interviewed

The DJ sets and collage edits of LA's Total Freedom dissolve R&B, pop and rap into churning noise and razor beats, distorting time and space in the club. He meets Alexander Iadarola to discuss a fascination with club cultures, and folllowing the impulse to fuck with dancers' pleasure centres