Candi Staton, the legendary Queen Of Southern Soul, is back with an Americana-influenced, Muscle Shoals-made new album - she tells Simon Price about Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, how America's gun culture has killed childhood, how to escape a hellish marriage and, most importantly, how to pronounce her surname
Venom are now widely recognised as being the cornerstone of modern extreme metal. Cronos, the driving force behind the band over the last four decades, talks to John Doran about how class, geography and an accident with a gun went into shaping what they became
With the second of their Sonic Groove compilations recently released and a new album on the way, the industrial techno duo have an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the oft-overlooked rhythmic noise scene and the evolution of their sound and approach to production