Laniakea’s debut album, a collaboration between Grumbling Fur’s Daniel O’Sullivan and Zu’s Massimo Pupillo, is devoted to the artist Ian Johnstone, whose untimely passing also saw the end of the London refuge where the LP was recorded. They tell Russell Cuzner how the life and location the record laments created an ascendant work at once both elegiac and joyous
Steve Parry's latest album as Hwyl Nofio finds him exploring personal and collective histories in his home region of South Wales. He speaks with Kevin Mccaighy about the rise and fall of industry and wandering the valleys with a field recorder
In his latest column, Kez Whelan salutes the brilliance that occurs at the intersection of black metal and hardcore punk, the ongoing boom in death metal, and reviews new releases from Scarcity, Harvestman, Krallice and many more
In the often apolitical world of house and techno, stellar DJ/producer/booker The Black Madonna is fearless when it comes to voicing her beliefs. Manu Ekanayake sat down with her to talk race, gender, disco and house, Trump and the Ghost Ship fire