Sean Kitching

Southern Ohio Gothic: An Interview With Donald Ray Pollock

Speaking to the author of The Heavenly Table about empathy with darkness, dead presidents and grotesquery, Sean Kitching finds a writer in possession of both a confident, unique - even defiant - sense of voice and serial doubts about his own success.

North Sea Radio Orchestra

Dronne

A Devil With The Detail: Joe Coleman Interviewed

With his latest work recently unveiled at Jeffrey Deitch’s Unrealism show in Miami, painter and performance artist Joe Coleman speaks to Sean Kitching about art, autopsies, and explosions

The Golden Age Is Now: The Strange World Of Kavus Torabi

Kavus Torabi talks Sean Kitching through ten highlights from his bewildering career in music

Prophets Of Time: Nik Turner’s Favourite Records

The space rock luminary and former member of Hawkwind, Sphynx and Inner City Unit guides Sean Kitching through 13 instructive and inspirational jazz, rock and soul records that have shaped him and his music

The Strange World Of… Sunburned Hand Of The Man

Sean Kitching provides ten points of entry to the bewildering and strange world of American free folk collective Sunburned Hand Of The Man

At The Drive-In: Joe R. Lansdale Interviewed

Straddling genres, making the martial arts hall of fame and witnessing social inequality in the American South are the order of the day as Sean Kitching speaks to author Joe R. Lansdale

The Strange World Of… The Residents – Homer Flynn Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to The Residents' resident artist, Homer Flynn who has selected ten essential aspects to act as an overview to the band's bewildering four decade career

The Spirit Is The Thing: Irmin Schmidt’s Favourite Records

As the former Can man releases his Electro Violet box set this week, he boils his all-time favourites down to a 'records of the day' selection, taking Sean Kitching from albums to individual songs and classical compositions

Footage At The Borderlands: Horror Writer Adam Nevill’s Cinematic Baker’s Dozen

With his new novel 'Lost Girl' out now, horror author Adam Nevill recommends his favourite recent horror films to Sean Kitching. You are going to want to work through this list.

Cardiacs

The Seaside

The Scaramanga Six

The Terrifying Dream

LIVE REPORT: Modest Mouse

Sean Kitching recounts his personal history of witnessing the Washington group, and reports on their performance at the Institute Birmingham earlier this month.

Ick’s Alive! Brian Yuzna’s Society Revisited

Sean Kitching has another look at Brian Yuzna's enduringly disgusting Society, recently reissued by Arrow films

Snook-er Looper-y: Predestination Reviewed

Sean Kitching reviews brain melting time travel thriller Predestination

LIVE REPORT: Louis Moholo Moholo Quartet

Sean Kitching reports on the Quartet's two day residency at Cafe Oto

LIVE REPORT: James Chance/Melt Yourself Down

Sean Kitching witnesses James Chance's long awaited return to London, alongside London-based jazz group Melt Yourself Down. Photo by Alan Bolger

Human Elements: Adam Nevill Interviewed

Sean Kitching speaks to horror novelist Adam Nevill about victim misogyny in horror films, picking apart the myths of history's notorious psychopaths in his latest book, No One Gets Out Alive, the literary brilliance of True Detective and not being the British Stephen King

Designed To Kill: James Chance & Melt Yourself Down’s Pete Wareham

Before they share a stage at London's Village Underground this Wednesday, the no wave luminary and Melt Yourself Down's bandleader and saxophonist discuss compositional processes, influences and lyrical approaches

Long Live The New Flesh: A Halloween Guide To Transgressive Horror

With Halloween upon us, Sean Kitching sets fire to his white sheet with eye-holes cut in it and compiles a list of horror movies that go that bit further for their scares (NSFW)

The Pop Group

We Are Time/Cabinet Of Curiosities

Sun Ra And His Arkestra

In The Orbit Of Ra

LIVE REPORT: Throwing Muses & Tanya Donelly

Sean Kitching reports form the Islington Assembly Halls in London

Kemialliset Ystävät

Alas Rattoisaa Virtaa

Knifeworld

The Unravelling

Pere Ubu

Carnival Of Souls

INTERVIEW: Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu's David Thomas and Sean Kitching set out to have a conversation about their new album, Carnival Of Souls, out next week, and end up taking in the merits of melding acoustic, digital and analogue sounds and discussing the finer points of English prog

John Zorn

On Leaves Of Grass

Louis Moholo-Moholo Unit

For The Blue Notes

Cardiacs

Sing To God (Reissue)

Sun Ra’s Arkestra At Cafe Oto And The BBC

Sean Kitching revels in two very special sessions with The Arkestra during centenary year, before they return to Oto again next week

God Is Dead – What Next? A Harry Crews Retrospective

On the weekend of what would have been the author's 79th birthday - now two years after his death - Sean Kitching takes a trip through the terrifying, grotesque and uncannily resonant world of Harry Crews