Julia-Sophie

Forgive Too Slow

Formerly of Little Fish and Candy Says, the Anglo-French singer-producer here fills floors and breaks hearts in roughly equal measure

Nick Cave To Present ‘Murder Ballads’ Listen-Along Event

Cave will be joined by Mick Harvey and Blixa Bargeld for a web chat about the 1996 album

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Calling Occupant Of Interplanetary Craft: Matias Aguayo Interviewed

Chilean producer and DJ Aguayo has always danced to a different beat but with his fifth album he’s inventing extraterrestrial rhythms for another planet. Kate Hutchinson catches up with the dance music outsider in Colombia to talk about his post-colonial vision for electronic music

LIVE REPORT: Simple Things Festival

Stephen Dalton is blasted by Squarepusher and Factory Floor at Bristol's Simple Things Festival

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

Com Lag: Slow Media, & The Occupation Of Online Time

As concern grows over what the corporate internet's flattening of time might be doing to our minds, a host of modern artists are using its own devices to resist the onslaught, slowing music and art and allowing time for its meaning to sink in. Ryan Diduck examines the significance of these 'com-lagged' works of art

Remembering Neil Kulkarni

Simon Price pays tribute to his friend and colleague, the great writer Neil Kulkarni, who died earlier this week aged 51

Keeping Literary Faith: Wake The President Interviewed

"Bill Drummond", says Wake The President's Erik Sandberg, speaking with Adrian Lobb about Glasgow indie and the inspiration for his band's new single

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

A Walk On The Mild Side: Lou Reed And Mick Rock Interviewed

Julian Marszalek is pleasantly surprised to find that Lou Reed and Mick Rock are a great double act... He talks to them about their enduring relationship, and new book of photos

LISTEN: Jarvis Cocker & Iggy Pop Cover Red Right Hand

Jarvis Cocker and Iggy Pop have recorded their own interpretation of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' 'Red Right Hand'

In Other Worlds: Tim Burgess’ Favourite Albums

Tim Burgess has given us lockdown light relief with his hugely popular album listening parties and now does one of his very own as he guides Diva Harris through his Baker's Dozen

Primavera Sound Issues Apology Amid Attendee Complaints

Festivalgoers at the Barcelona event this weekend have spoken of dangerous overcrowding, a lack of water points and hours-long bar queues

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For March By Daryl Worthington

Tradition defying bagpipes, failed field recordings of frogs, shimmering post punk and deep electronics from a hair salon in this month’s cassette reviews

Scientists: Pop Is Too Loud & Boring

Generations of parents sadly proved right, according to new research