Currently spanning Europe on a 40th anniversary tour, Flipper are enjoying a well-earned renaissance. Steve DePace from the seminal San Francisco punks talks to Brian Coney about their current line-up featuring David Yow and Mike Watt, recording with Melvins and their rep as the ultimate forebears of grunge
Before their appearance at Desertfest at the Camden Underworld this weekend, uber-heavy bass guitar maestros James Bryant and John Atkins of Palehorse salute their favourite bass albums with Kiran Acharya (and even include one that has no bass guitar at all)
The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth record with "no MO," says James Dean Bradfield. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about how it's left him with a rare sense of freedom in a world where "reality resembles fiction"