Brian Coney

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

Silver/Lead

Brian Coney On The Moonlandingz’ Interplanetary Class Classics

In The Moonlandingz first full-length offering as a non-fictional outfit, Brian Coney finds a record that refuses to wear only one mask – futurist without revivalism, acerbic but with swagger – and throws off with gusto any accusations of the term side-project

Dutch Uncles

Big Balloon

INTERVIEW: Thurston Moore

Brian Coney speaks to Thurston Moore about his plans for 2017 and ways to respond to the uncertain political climate in which we find ourselves

Remembering Jaki Liebezeit

Remembering the Can founding member who passed away yesterday at the age of 78. Photo courtesy of Dawid Laskowski

Kafka For President: 80 Years of The Trial

On the 80th anniversary of its first English translation, Brian Coney examines the parallels between Kafka’s essential work of philosophical fiction and the continued rise of global despotism. (Photograph by David Fenton)

Flaming Lips

Oczy Mlody

Robocobra Quartet

Music For All Occasions

Brian Coney On Thee Oh Sees’ An Odd Entrances

In the San Francisco band's eighteenth record — under the third variation of their name — Brian Coney finds an album not lacking in Thee Oh Sees' trademark sound and fury, but benefiting from a newfound sense of restraint

Papa M

Highway Songs

David Holmes

Late Night Tales

30 Years On: Pixies’ Trompe Le Monde Revisited

30 years on from Pixies’ “swan song", Brian Coney revisits Trompe Le Monde

Angelo Badalamenti

Twin Peaks Original Score

Beyond The Parking Lot: The Art Of The Metal Documentary

Brian Coney raises the horns to the best documentaries ever made about that mightiest of all musical forms: Heavy Metal

No Longer Lost: John Carpenter Interviewed

Horror master John Carpenter on his second non-soundtrack album, Lost Themes II, and performing his first ever live shows this at Primavera, ATP Iceland and New York ahead of English dates later in the year. Interview by Brian Coney

Protomartyr

The Agent Intellect

Micachu & The Shapes

Good Sad Happy Bad

Willis Earl Beal

Noctunes