Ryan Driver

Sticky Fingers: Artists’ Cut-Ups On World Collage Day

On World Collage Day, artists including Ed Dowie, Richard Dawson, and Trevor Dunn speak to Lara C. Cory about their fondness for glue

Lines In The Desert: Steven R. Smith Interviewed

With his work emerging under a dizzying array of interwoven pseudonyms, it can be tough to get a handle on the work of the enigmatic Steven R. Smith. Speaking to Michael Begg about the range of his music, instrument building and deserts, he offers a window into his world

Bring The Ruckus: Indies And Majors Slug It Out

Alex Ogg, author of _Independence Days: The Story of UK Independent Labels_ gets involved in some vicious close quarters combat with Marcus Gray, author of _Route 19 Revisited: The Clash and London Calling_, before escalating to nukes

Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited

The Metal Machine Trio tour of the UK and Europe starts this Sunday. Their leader Lou Reed has always trod the fine line between 'rock & roll star' and 'serious artist', and never more so than on his 1975 album, _Metal Machine Music_. John Doran asks him about this period . . . and waits a painfully long time for the answers

Complete Communion: Jazz Reviews For April By Stewart Smith

With the dub-funk & tritium guitars of Harriet Tubman, Joshua Abram’s shimmering, kinetic trance, not to mention one of the albums of the year, Matt Mitchell’s Førâge - here's Stewart Smith with the jazz

Mick Harvey

Delirium Tremens

Trent Reznor: FB Soundtrack Will Inspire Next Album

He and Atticus Ross "recharged" by project

Oasis & Kasabian For NEU! Tribute Album

Foals and Ciccone Youth appear too

Inside The Boiler Room: TOTP For The Ustream Generation

From its central premise of 'clubgoing from the comfort of your bedroom', Angus Finlayson explores the meteoric rise of the Boiler Room and its place in the history of global music broadcasting. Photo by Ashes57

Epicus Doomicus Desertfesticus: Hanging With Candlemass

Ahead of Candlemass' appearance at Desertfest this weekend Dan Franklin talks to guitarist Lars Johansson and takes us on a whistle-stop trip through the annals of doom...

Matias Aguayo

I Don't Smoke EP

The Beatles Rock Band & The Rise Of Computer Game Music

From The Pleasuredome to Beatles Rock Band - video games and music celebrate their silver wedding atop a mountain made of cash, says John Tatlock.