Ben Graham

Githead

Waiting For A Sign

FESTIVAL REPORT: DRiLL

Ben Graham takes a trip to Brighton. Featuring Swans, Wire, Savages, These New Puritans and more. Photo by Greg Neate

Matthew Edwards And The Unfortunates

The Fates

Everybody Gets Wings: King Champion Sounds Interviewed

Ajay Saggar, leader of King Champion Sounds, tells Ben Graham how the collective went from one-off Mike Watt support act to fully fledged, brass-touting genre melders ahead of their UK tour, starting this week

Junkboy

Sovereign Sky

Lola Colt

Away From The Water

FESTIVAL REPORT: Fort Process

Ben Graham heads to a concrete fort in Newhaven, Sussex for a one-day arts festival. Featuring reports on NeuroHarp, Ex Easter Island Head, Daniel Alexander Hignell and more. Photos by Agata Urbaniak

Sort Out Your Shoes, Then Liberate Your Mind: Taman Shud Interviewed

Ahead of their show at Supernormal Festival, Ben Graham meets the thirsty occult louts behind Taman Shud's mighty psychedelic racket, to learn about coping with office job boredom through transcendent volume, esoteric weirdness, crisps and booze

PREVIEW: Fort Process

Ben Graham looks ahead to the inaugural one-day arts festival taking place at Newhaven Fort in Sussex in September, featuring Peter Brötzmann & Steve Noble, English Heretic, Sarah Angliss, Max Eastley and more

Kenny Loggins In Dub: An Interview With Seahawks

With their latest album Paradise Freaks just released, Ben Graham catches up with Pete Fowler and Jon Tye to discuss how Seahawks emerged from refracting the duo's love of 70s AOR through a filter of weird noise, psychedelia and dub

Arch Garrison

I Will Be A Pilgrim

Things The Quietus Learned At The Great Escape

As the annual showcase festival rolls up to Brighton, Ben Graham grabs his programme, necks a shot of Finnish vodka and salted liquorice and sets off to take in three days' worth of new bands. All photographs courtesy of Erik Luyten

The Horrors

Luminous

Hallock Hill

Kosloff Mansion

Black Bombaim And La La La Ressonance

Black Bombaim and La La La Ressonance

Plurals

Bugenes Melissae

Ministry Of Wolves

Music From Republik Der Wolfe

Fanfarlo

Let's Go Extinct

Gyratory System

Utility Music

Alex Monk

Indiscreet Mirror

Not All Memories Are Lost: The Man Whose Mind Exploded Reviewed

Ben Graham reviews Toby Amies' documentary about a unique, eccentric Brighton resident who was left unable to form new memories

Lone Star Saint: Roky Erickson’s Solo Career In Review

Looking back at Roky Erickson's creative 1980s, Billy Miller, Craig Luckin and Stu Cook tell Ben Graham about ill advised acid trips and albums recorded in psychiatric hospitals

Great Hosannah! Icarus Line Live Keep Rock & Roll Rutting

All it takes is 45 minutes of The Icarus Line (and Bad For Lazarus) to restore Ben Graham's faith in rock & roll. Photos by Sam Collins

Drone Bomb: An Interview With The KVB

With their new mini-album Minus One released this month, Ben Graham catches up with the London based purveyors of dark, industrially-tinged post-punk and psych

LIVE REPORT: Esben, TotS & Thought Forms

Ben Graham heads to the second-to-last show of Esben And The Witch, Teeth Of The Sea and Thought Forms' joint tour in Brighton. Photographs courtesy of William van der Voort

Various Artists

Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance 2

God’s Own Medicine: Wayne Hussey’s Favourite Albums

We put in a long-distance call to Brazil to ask The Mission frontman and former Sister Of Mercy about the gems in his record collection

Ed Askew

For The World

The Legendary Pink Dots

The Gethsemane Option

Sweet Narcotic Reverie: An Interview With The Lucid Dream

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

Roshi Feat. Pars Radio

Three Almonds And A Walnut

Caught By The Fuzz: The Black Angels Interviewed

Ahead of a series of shows in the UK, Ben Graham speaks with Austin's fuzzed-out voyagers the Black Angels, to discuss psychedelic music's power to create connections and change perceptions