Brian Coney

LISTEN: Matthew Shaw’s Among The Never Setting Stars

Dorset-based artist Matthew Shaw has filtered loss and the Cornish landscape into one of the ambient releases of the year. Brian Coney speaks to him about drone, sonic economy, recording in ancient sites, hallucinating Eno and more

LIVE REPORT: Desert Daze Festival

Despite disastrous cancellations, Desert Daze maintains its status as one of the year's finest cosmic blow-outs

Ex-Isles

Luxury Mass

Debut album from the collaborative project of composer and multi-instrumentalist James Joys and vocalist Peter Devlin

Live Report: Sven Helbig in Hamburg

Looks great, sounds better: when German classical-electronic music meets German classical-technical venue

Catherine Ribeiro + Alpes

No2 / Ame Debout / Paix

A long overdue reissue of three albums packed with prog and cosmic ritualism, free jazz and European medieval traditions

Desert Daze Finalises 2018 Line-Up

My Bloody Valentine, Julia Holter and Shellac and more complete the line-up for this year’s edition of California psych festival Desert Daze

Idles

Joy As An Act Of Resistance

An incendiary, vital drive from the Bristol band that strikes a midpoint between polemical and impactful

No Slowing Down: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Interviewed

Stu Mackenzie from the Australian psych rock overlords talks to Brian Coney about training one’s brain, releasing five albums last year and learning to chill

Live Report: Framewerk Sleepover Belfast

Brian Coney spends the night slumbering on and off through an all night gig at St. Martin's Church, Belfast. Photos by Sara Bak

Double Take: Kim Gordon & Bill Nace On The Art That Inspired Body/Head

From Twin Peaks and Circuit des Yeux to Atlanta and Pink Floyd, Kim Gordon and Bill Nace reveal the records, films, TV shows and books that made an imprint on the writing and recording of their new album



The Strange World Of… Pete Kember

From Spacemen 3 to Delia Derbyshire. From Sonic Boom to MGMT. From Spectrum to E.A.R. Pete Kember talks to Brian Coney about his bewildering back catalogue of work

Hilary Woods

Colt

This debut, on Sacred Bones, announces a sublime new voice

Alexis Taylor

Beautiful Thing

The Hot Chip veteran heads a bit too far into his comfort zone on this new solo album

Things Learned At: Nils Frahm’s Piano Day

Walking talking fingers at London’s Barbican, with Poppy Ackroyd, Marina Baranova and Florian Christl

Function Is The Key: An Interview With The Messthetics

Brendan Canty talks to Brian Coney about breaking new ground with fellow Fugazi member Joe Lally alongside Anthony Pirog in The Messthetics, as well as the future of Fugazi

Slow Place Like Home

When I See You… Ice Cream!

From Northern Ireland, a singular mind creates a singular electronic album - a rich and idiosyncratic gem

40 Years On: Pere Ubu’s The Modern Dance Revisited

Can the birth of post-punk be traced back to a recording studio in the Cleveland woods? Brian Coney makes the case for Pere Ubu’s debut LP being the genre's genesis point

25 Years On: Nirvana’s Incesticide Revisited

Incesticide is often seen as an afterthought of an odds and sods compilation. Wrong, says Brian Coney: it's the true essence of what Nirvana are

Zola Jesus

Okovi

Nika Danilove returns to Brooklyn's ever-discerning Sacred Bones label after an extraordinary metamorphosis.

RIP Grant Hart: Gentle, Brilliant, Impossible

Remembering the Hüsker Dü founding member, who has died aged 56

Grizzly Bear

Painted Ruins

Ed Droste and co with a dazzling meditation on how to persevere in the leering face of the unknown

A Conversation We Should Be Having: Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle Reviewed

Brian Coney hails Paul Sng’s documentary as a vital and all-too timely look at the country’s deep-seated housing crisis

No Guts, No Glory: Remembering George A. Romero

The horror filmmaker has died aged 77

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard

Murder Of The Universe

Can

The Singles

Things Learned At: Primavera Sound 2017

With performances from Slayer, Mogwai, and Grace Jones – and lessons learned on the burden of choice and the joy of sleep (and Sleep) – Brian Coney takes to Barcelona for this year's edition of the inimitable Primavera Sound. Photographs by Jan Rijk at Dutchpix.com

PREVIEW: Primavera 2017

Ahead of its return to Barcelona this week, Brian Coney whittles this year’s bill down to a selection of must-see highlights

Black Lips

Satan's Graffiti Or God's Art?

This Is What We Get: 20 Years Of OK Computer

Two decades later Brian Coney looks at how the Radiohead album takes the temperature of 21st century anxiety, while examining our relationship with technology and the murkiness of modern politics

Things Learned At: Desertfest London

With return performances from Sleep and Slo Burn and a commanding turn by Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs, Brian Coney selects the highlights from the sixth outing of London's premier riff cotillion (Photographs by Thania Rates and Falk Hagen)

PREVIEW: Desertfest 2017

Ahead of the return of annual heft mecca Desertfest to Camden this weekend, Brian Coney handpicks a dozen must-see acts

Wire

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