Daniel Dylan Wray

WATCH: New Richard Dawson Video

Richard Dawson shares new video shot in Durham HMP, as part of commissioned installation at Hexham Old Gaol

Listen To It Now: LCD Soundsystem Live In Manchester

We had a theory that LCD Soundsystem are a band of perfect imperfection. Then we saw them live at the weekend, and they were just perfect.

Space Odyssey: Mogwai Live At The Brudenell Social Club

At a tiny one-off gig at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds, Mogwai create thunder and eruption - and something beautiful in the spaces in between.

Beloved Transmissions: Mary Anne Hobbs’ Favourite Albums

Ahead of her curation at the Manchester International Festival, Mary Anne Hobbs guides Daniel Dylan Wray on an inspiring trip through 13 records that shaped her life

Pop For The Politically Disillusioned: Charlotte Church Live

There's a club if you'd like to go... you might end up singing a mash up of Faithless, Fat Boy Slim and Snap along with a leftwing Welsh pop & opera singer and forget that the world's ending, says Daniel Dylan Wray

Tearing Off The Band Aid: Revealing The Scabrous Truth of Gerry & The Holograms

Proposing to Beefheart, auditioning for Zappa, impersonating Costello and ripped-off by New Order. Finders Keepers boss Andy Votel invites us to enter into the world of CP Lee and Gerry & the Holograms with some help from Daniel Dylan Wray

Elias Rønnenfelt Of Iceage & Marching Church’s Favourite LPs

Ahead of Marching Church's appearance at Roskilde Festival later this year, Elias Rønnenfelt guides Daniel Dylan Wray through his favourite 13 albums

Fear Smells Delicious: An Interview With Ho99o9

The unnatural end point of mixing hardcore-hip-hop-industrial, sweatbox live shows and a penchant for boxing shorts, the duo of theOGM and Eaddy talk to Daniel Dylan Wray about the (literal) bleeding edge of their hybrid

A Black Atmosphere: Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo Interviewed

Daniel Dylan Wray meets the Italian composer and the Neubauten/Bad Seeds man to talk about their new collaborative album, Nerissimo

Exploiting The Moment: An Interview With Blood Sport

They have created a new genre in aggro-beat and are splitting heads wide open on stage with their semi-improvised performances – as they release their second album, the Sheffield trio sit down with Daniel Dylan Wray

Driff-Raff: Happy Mondays, Bummed & Driffield

Soldiers, tequila and asti-spumanti slammers, ecstasy, guns, LSD, brandy and waitresses. The good, good, good, good, good, good, double-good recording of Bummed by the Happy Mondays as dimly remembered by Shaun Ryder, Bez and others and told to Daniel Dylan Wray

Things Learned At: Pop Kultur

Daniel Dylan Wray muses on things learned at Berlin's newest festival, hosted across six rooms the legendary Berghain

“The Biggest Hits That The Radio Won’t Touch”: The Moonlandingz Interviewed

The fictional band from The Eccentronic Research Council's last album are not only real, but they're going on tour and releasing records. Two of their animating architects, The ERC's Adrian Flanagan and Fat White Family's Lias Saoudi, sit down with Daniel Dylan Wray to discuss working with Sean Lennon, masochistic video shoots and bringing back rabies

Things Learned At: NOS Primavera Sound

Daniel Dylan Wray reports from Primevera's Portugal edition, reporting on sets from FKA twigs, Patti Smith, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Replacements and Xylouris White

A Place Outside Of Normal Life: An Interview With Keeley Forsyth

The actor and musician is soon to release new material, sounding, in the words of The Eccentronic Research Council, like it came out of "a 17th-century Lancastrian pagan folk cult". Daniel Dylan Wray talks to her before she supports tQ's John Doran on his book tour in Sheffield this Friday

Pondering Personal Redemption: Nick Cave Live In Nottingham

"Nick Cave & some of the Bad Seeds." Daniel Dylan Wray reports on an evening of sexual tension, seismic impact and incessant heckling

A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums

With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums. And, with the help of beers, a record player and one powerful deployment of the phrase "get to utter fuck", here's what he picked

Rowland S. Howard

Six Strings That Drew Blood

If This Is Heaven I’m Bailing Out: The Death Of The Birthday Party

Amid a whirlwind of drug use, chaotic live shows and within-band animosity, The Birthday Party juddered to a halt in 1983. Daniel Dylan Wray traces the story of the band's messy dissolution, and of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' phoenix-like emergence the following year with From Her To Eternity. Interviews with Mick Harvey, Flood, Jim Thirlwell, Barry Adamson, Nick Launey, Chris Bohn, Henry Rollins, Jessamy Calkin and Hugo Race

INTERVIEW: I Dream Of Wires

Daniel Dylan Wray talks to Jason Amm, producer of the modular synthesisers documentary, before the East End Film Festival and Sensoria screen the UK premiere of its 90-minute theatrical release

Launch Successful: Celebrating 15 Years Of Rocket Recordings

With the Bristol/London label turning 15 this year, Daniel Dylan Wray caught up with its founders and asked its roster to talk us through their favourite tracks from the anniversary compilation, Crystallized

Rebel Basement: David Yow Interviewed

Daniel Dylan Wray speaks to Jesus Lizard front man, actor and Scratch Acid punk about the long gestation of his first solo album

Things Learned At: Primavera Sound 2013

Barcelona's Primavera Sound festival was an endurance test for Daniel Dylan Wray, who reports back on an incendiary Death Grips performance, muddy sound and a late-in-the-day epiphany

Redefining Dissonance: Sonic Youth Live At The Smart Bar Chicago 1985

Daniel Wray speaks to Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Michael Azerrad, Aaron Mullan, Santiago Durango and Nash Kato about the recent release of a Sonic Youth live recording from 1985, and recalls the astonishing force of a group reaching the peak of their powers

Sonic Youth To Release Live LPs?

Lee Ranaldo on potential series

Cloud Nothings

Attack On Memory

Baths

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