Kevin Mccaighy

To End All War: An Interview With Diamanda Galás

Upon the release of her new album Broken Gargoyles, Diamanda Galás discusses her unflinching exploration of soldiers mutilated by war, the album's roots in the poetry of Georg Heym and the photos of Ernst Friedrich, and why the pandemic was a prompt to live in the moment

Reissue Of The Week: Jarboe – Skin Blood Women Roses

Kevin Mccaighy speaks to Jarboe about the timely reissue of one of her key recordings

Reissue Of The Week: Great Noises That Fill The Air

A collection of Arts Council Of Great Britain documentaries featuring music, poetry and performance, originally made between 1976 and 1996, have just been compiled by BFI. Kevin Mccaighy appraises films whose gaze meet our own

The Strange World Of… Amphetamine Reptile Records

Kevin Mccaighy takes a close look at one of the most important American independent rock labels of the 80s and 90s, finding ten points of entry into a bewilderingly large back catalogue, in the shape of gems from Unsane, Today Is The Day, Cows and Mudhoney

“I’m Upfront About the Fact I’m a Fucking Nutter” – Guttersnipe Interviewed

The Quietus has long been of the opinion that Guttersnipe are one of the most exciting live acts in the UK underground, if not the entire world. Now with debut album My Mother The Vent due out next month on Upset The Rhythm, they have recorded material to match. Kevin McCaighy talks to Urocerus Gigas and Tipula Confusa about their incendiary sound. Garden and living room portraits by Abby Banks

Circle

Terminal

Hwyl Nofio

From Elevated Gangways Rivers Of Molten Metal Flow

Rose McDowall

Cut With The Cake Knife

Rolo Tomassi

Grievances

Bardo Pond

Record Store Day Trilogy

Still The Enemy Within: How Film & TV Dealt With The Miners’ Strike

Kevin Mccaighy looks back at film and television responses to the events of 30 years ago and interviews producer Mark Lacey and director Owen Gower who made Still The Enemy Within

Archie Bronson Outfit

Wild Crush

The Strange World Of… Circle

Jussi Lehtisalo, founding member of Circle, guides Kevin Mccaighy through highlights of their bewilderingly large back catalogue

Helms Alee

Sleepwalking Sailors

After Xasthur: Scott Conner Of Nocturnal Poisoning Interviewed

Kevin Mccaighy talks to the former USBM musician about his individual attempts to fuse American folk music with doom

‘Weird Heaviness’: An Interview With Korperschwache

Kevin Mccaighy gets acquainted with Texan guitarist and experimental noise artist Roy K Felps, to discuss the prolific output of his Korperschwache project, cassettes and his love of Skullflower

Royal Trux

Veterans Of Disorder (Reissue)

CAVE

Threace

Iron Fist Of The Sun

Who Will Help Me Wash My Right Hand

Zola Jesus

Versions

Comanechi

You Owe Me Nothing But Love

The Lay Of The Land: An Interview With Hwyl Nofio

Steve Parry's latest album as Hwyl Nofio finds him exploring personal and collective histories in his home region of South Wales. He speaks with Kevin Mccaighy about the rise and fall of industry and wandering the valleys with a field recorder

The End Of Punk: Joe Carducci Interviewed

In a wide-ranging and forthright interview Kevin McCaighy speaks to legendary SST lynch pin and underground rock writer Joe Carducci

INTERVIEW: Comanechi

With a headline set at The Lexington for Wire and the Quietus' DRILL:LONDON festival tonight, and second album You Owe Me Nothing But Love recently released, we talk to the capital's fiercest trio

Infectious Virulence: An Interview With Divorce

Glasgow noise-rock quartet Divorce make a hellish, high-frequency no wave racket. With their self-titled debut recently released, they speak to Kevin Mccaighy about touring, spontaneity, and why noise for noise's sake isn't good enough

Divorce

Divorce

Accidents Of Evocation: COI + Mordant Music = MisinforMation Explored

Kevin Mccaighy revisits this disquieting DVD featuring audio by Baron Mordant set to visuals from the Central Office of Information, originally available through specialist outlets and now reissued by the BFI

Meditation & Repetition: An Interview With MAKE

Chapel Hill's purveyors of psychedelic metal epics, MAKE, recently released their debut album Trephine. Kevin McCaighy caught up with the three-piece to discuss how they formed and the themes behind the album

From Another World: Acid Mothers Temple Interviewed

In the wake of Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO's first full UK tour in over five years, Kevin Mccaighy caught up with the band's lynchpin, Makoto Kawabata, to speak about their current projects

Deeper Into The Void: An Interview With Asva

Asva released one of last year's most haunting and evocative records in Presences Of Absences. Kevin McCaighy speaks to bassist and founder member Stuart Dahlquist about the past, present and future of the group.

Amebix

Sonic Mass