Billy Nomates

“I Can Fend For Myself”: The Inimitable Mr Tony Allen Interviewed

To many people who make music, including Brian Eno and Blur’s Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Afrobeat innovator, is simply the greatest drummer alive. After talking to the Nigerian living legend, John Doran finds it hard to disagree

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The Hunter

INTERVIEW: Barry Hyde

Ex-Futurehead talks his new solo album, managing his bipolar disorder, and Britain’s mental health crisis

Delayed Gratification: An Interview With DreamTX

Nicholas Das speaks to Zara Heddermann about how retreating into a cabin in upstate New York provided the time and space he needed to turn a period of displacement into amorphous and entrancing new album as DreamTX

Porch Songs: Marissa Nadler Interviewed

Marissa Nadler has just released her new album Strangers. Here she talks to John Doran about apocalyptic visions, personal crisis and the need for constant creative change

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

The Listener Is The Key: Nils Frahm Interviewed

Tristan Bath meets the acclaimed and well loved German composer and musician to talk about the importance of good production

And It’s Goodbye From Them: British Murder Boys Interviewed

British Murder Boys, the twosome of Regis and Surgeon, are sadly now defunct. Before they both play on the same bill at Bloc this weekend, they talk to Luke Turner about Gene Vincent, the influence of pantomime and channelling the errant daydreams of winos into pummelling techno