On their newly released debut album Carlisle's neo-psych trainwreckers The Lucid Dream inject their music with equal parts pop-suss and blistering noise. The band's Mark Emmerson speaks with Ben Graham about avoiding psychedelia's stereotypical trappings and working in isolation
With The Brian Jonestown Massacre's UK and Ireland tour in support of recent LP Revelation starting in Brighton on Saturday, the band's frontman shirks the album rundown request, opens up his DJ bag and gives Julian Marszalek a top 13 songs mixtape
Compass Point Studios, and its house band the Compass Point All Stars, were going to be Chris Blackwell and Island Records’ defining statement to the world. Instead, they provided Grace Jones’s. And that, says David Bennun, looking back at the three extraordinary records she made there between 1980 and 1982, is more than enough