John Payne

Mr Agreeable’s Jacko Death Special: A Cocktail Of Your Crocodile Tears

Jaki Liebezeit’s Legacy To Be Captured In Biography

The crowdfunded biography will catalogue the life of the machinistic drummer along with exclusive, previously unpublished material

LISTEN: Wrangler Cover Delta 5

An impressive cast of characters collaborate for Delta 5 cover

Kindred Spirits: Burial The Urban Explorer

Burial released his new EP, Kindred, though Hyperdub this week. In a piece that began as a simple review before spiraling out of control, Rory Gibb asks why he, out of all his contemporaries, has struck such a nerve with such a wide audience

Squarepusher To Release New Album

Ufabulum for release in May

Slaves To The Algorithm: How Facebook Is Throttling Underground Culture

Mollie Zhang speaks to musicians and artists about how to survive, with or without likes, follows and page boosts

Things Learned At: Elevate

Tristan Bath heads to Graz to experience a multitude of modern music buried within the city's underground network. Photos by Lupi Spuma

FESTIVAL REPORT: Bloodstock

Tom O'Boyle (words) and Katja Ogrin (pictures) up horns and head to Bloodstock 2012 for Alice Cooper, Sepultura and more!

Portraying Psychological Angst: Dave McKean Interviewed

Artist and illustrator Dave McKean - who has created album artwork for Machinehead, Fear Factory, Michael Nyman and Front Line Assembly - speaks to Dan Franklin

Electric Light Orchestra: Viridian Ensemble Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to four members of the Bristol group who experiment with music and film, prompted by 12th century texts about women's medicine, shrimp in the West Country, and finding the edges of their instruments

Mogwai Share New Track, ‘Boltfor’

It arrives ahead of the band's headline show at London's Alexandra Palace next month

Iggy Pop Announces Lyrics Book

New lyrics book from Iggy Pop set to cover more than 100 of his songs

Live Report: Jazz Jantar in Gdansk

Jazz is live and kicking on the Baltic coast. Stewart Smith reports from Gdansk's admirably diverse Jazz Jantar festival, taking in Peter Brötzmann, Theo Croker, Steve Lehman's Selébeyone and Pimpono Ensemble.

A Document in Time: Neil Halstead Of Slowdive’s Baker’s Dozen

With Slowdive reformed and about to release their fourth album (as well as playing Field Day and Roskilde), Neil Halstead tells Joe Clay about the gateway albums that influenced him the most. Photo by Ingrid Pop.

Destroyer

Dan’s Boogie

Dan Bejar finds humour in his own irascibility, still room for plenty of gravity and grit

INTERVIEW: Fulu Miziki Talk Forthcoming Tremor Show

Ahead of their performance at Tremor Festival, Kinshasa electro-punk group Fulu Miziki speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about building instruments from trash, their use of masked costumes, and staying hydrated