The Dome Of Hercules: Carlton Melton Interviewed

Barnaby Smith talks to Rich Millman - guitarist with Calrton Melton - about San Francisco, improvisation and juggling fatherhood with making music

To End All War: An Interview With Diamanda Galás

Upon the release of her new album Broken Gargoyles, Diamanda Galás discusses her unflinching exploration of soldiers mutilated by war, the album's roots in the poetry of Georg Heym and the photos of Ernst Friedrich, and why the pandemic was a prompt to live in the moment

Friends Of Mine: Rachel Aggs’ Favourite Music

Rachel Aggs takes Stephanie Phillips through the albums that made her the musician she is today, from Smokey Robinson to Robyn, Mahotella Queens to Sleater-Kinney. Portrait photo by Stephanie Gibson

Club Members: Julianna Barwick’s Favourite Albums

From very long-term library loans and overnight camp-outs to chance shopping-mall buys and poster-based confusion, the composer gives Gary Kaill the stories behind 13 LPs she's listened to a "bazillion freaking times"

Kerridge

Always Offended Never Ashamed

What Is Best In Life: Why Sword And Sorcery Films Deserve Your Respect

Long derided as fantasy's young, dumb, full of cum idiot brother, at its best, this supercharged, supernatural cinema is sublime

The Pogues’ Shane MacGowan Has Died, Aged 65

A statement confirmed that he died "peacefully" with "his wife and sister by his side"

LISTEN: Factory Floor Remixed By Optimo

'~(R E A L L O V E)' gets even more, er, lovey; JD Twitch explains why Factory Floor are his "dream band"

There He Is Now, Father Brian Eno Looking Sad

We recently found out that Dublin-based artist Shota Kotake was producing a Father Ted picture a day to mark the programme's 20th anniversary, so we got in touch to find out more, and he drew us a special commission

Hey Colossus

Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo

Ghost Songs: An Interview With Sea Lion

The Gothenburg-based singer-songwriter tells John Freeman why the creation of the spectral, highly intimate songs on her exquisite debut album Desolate Stars was driven out of a desire to feel "grounded and present"

Double Portraits: Sebastian Smee On The Art Of Rivalry

From the story of Degas‘s portrait of Manet to Freud's struggle with Bacon, Sebastian Smee talks to Craft/Work about the productive history of artistic rivalries

Yoko Ono’s Meltdown: First Names

Line-up starts to take shape

Iron & Wine

Ghost On Ghost

INTERVIEW: Ben Frost on Dark OST

Ben Frost speaks to Patrick Clarke about his soundtrack to wonderful German sci-fi mind-bender 'Dark'

Roots Manuva

Slime and Reason