Kiran Acharya

Betrayed By Our Nature: Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth

In a world where our relationship to safety is changing beyond repair, Ben Wheatley’s In The Earth offers a bombastic psychedelic escape. But, asks Kiran Acharya, are we emerging into heaven or hell?

A Very Cool Thing To Have Done: Crunchy Frog At 25

The Danish indie label has been at the heart of Copenhagen's creative underground for a quarter of a century, says Kiran Acharya who attends their birthday celebrations

Help Crowdfund Invisible Britain Portraits Book



A new book from Sleaford Mods documentary director Paul Sng showcases more than 40 portrait photographers telling untold stories from across the UK

Products Of Hysteria: An Interview With Oxbow

As they return with the decade-in-the-making Thin Black Duke, revered quartet Oxbow meet Kiran Acharya to discuss ageing, money and hitting the Goldilocks level of success

The Death Of Dissent: Richard H Kirk’s Baker’s Dozen

With the release of the Richard H Kirk and Sandoz box sets, the Cabaret Voltaire lynchpin takes us through thirteen of his favourite and most enduring albums

Sharp Dressed Fan: Billy Gibbons Of ZZ Top’s Favourite Albums

As ZZ Top take their live greatest hits album on tour, their lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons talks Kiran Acharya through his top 13 LPs, setting aside some of his more well-worn classics in favour of recent favourites

Addicted To Serendipity: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts’ Baker’s Dozen

As the Cumbrian quartet prepare to release their "'fuck you' to adulthood", Boy King, their singer and guitarist takes us through 13 LPs that shaped it, including Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter and Oneohtrix Point Never

Revolting Lots: Al Jourgensen’s Favourite Ministry Albums

As Ministry prepare to tour Europe, their leader puts the band's discography in order while sharing wild tales and encounters with William S. Burroughs, Robert Plant and copious amounts of his own stomach lining

Writing Yourself Into Existence: Tunde Adebimpe And Doseone Discuss Nevermen

The TV On The Radio singer and Anticon rapper tell Kiran Acharya about recording Nevermen, their project with Faith No More's Mike Patton, the role of the frontman and Boards Of Canada's love of stuffed animals

Nevermen

Nevermen

There Is A Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Therapy? Revisit Infernal Love

It cost the band their drummer, the support of the UK press and their major-label deal... yet twenty years after the peak of Britpop, Infernal Love looks like a lost classic of mid-90s rock, says Kiran Acharya

A Flash Of White Heat: John Stanier Of Battles’ Favourite Albums

With Battles' new LP La Di Da Di out, the drummer with the highest cymbal in rock takes a journey through hardcore, hip-hop and baroque and reveals his 'never-leave-home-without-it security blanket record' for Kiran Acharya

Talent Not Gender: Babes In Toyland At Beaches Brew

Minnesotan power trio Babes in Toyland have reunited for their first dates in 20 years, encountering fans old and new in the UK, Europe and the USA. Kiran Acharya meets Maureen Herman and Lori Barbero in Italy to find a band – and festival – worth celebrating. Photography by Francesca Sara Cauli

Low End Theories: Palehorse’s Favourite Bass Albums


Before their appearance at Desertfest at the Camden Underworld this weekend, uber-heavy bass guitar maestros James Bryant and John Atkins of Palehorse salute their favourite bass albums with Kiran Acharya (and even include one that has no bass guitar at all)

The Duke of Disquiet: An interview with Andy Cairns of Therapy?

As Therapy? release a record-breaking fourteenth studio album Disquiet, frontman Andy Cairns reflects on darkness, difficulties and turning fifty after a lifetime in music

Invisible Undercurrents: Cat’s Eyes’ Favourite Soundtracks

With their soundtrack to Peter Strickland's new film The Duke Of Burgundy released this week, Cats' Eyes - The Horrors' Faris Badwan and composer Rachel Zeffira - run through their movie collection with Kiran Acharya to pick out their 13 top scores and soundtracks

Time Dilates Around You: Jon Hopkins Discusses Asleep Versions

The producer considers patience, meditation and the importance of the pineal gland while talking Kiran Acharya through the four immersive remixes on his new EP, released today

Immersion Through Disturbance: Clint Mansell’s Favourite Film Soundtracks

The former Pop Will Eat Itself singer turned film score maestro tells Kiran Acharya about the 13 soundtracks that have inspired him most

An Inexhaustible Realm Of Fascination: David Lynch’s Factory Photographs

With a new book and exhibition in London, Kiran Acharya considers a surprisingly straightforward but characteristically unsettling selection of images from the subversive director

State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting author talks Filth, Porno, post-UK politics, and how he should have cut Margaret Thatcher in on his royalties in an interview at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Beijing Gallows: The Hanging Man Reviewed

Barnaby Martin’s show-stopping dispatch reveals more to Kiran Acharya than any document to date on Ai Weiwei’s place in China and the international art world and a rare glimpse in to the present and future of a secretive state

A(nother) Conversation With Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy

In the concluding part of an interview celebrating the publication of Extinct Boids, Ceri Levy and Ralph Steadman remember Steadman’s father, capture the importance of the natural world, and pay tribute to Zeno - ‘a sheep of certain wisdom’

A Conversation With Ceri Levy & Ralph Steadman

In the first of a two part series celebrating the publication of Extinct Boids, film-maker Ceri Levy and artist Ralph Steadman lead Kiran Acharya on a wayward interview with detours into art, conservation and memories of Hunter S Thompson

Warp Films 10 Report

Dance at my party! Kiran Acharya reports from Warp Films' 10th birthday celebrations in Sheffield, headed by a special Dead Man's Shoes event

BATS

The Sleep of Reason

The Art Of Dissent: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Reviewed

Kiran Acharya gets fired up by first-time director Alison Klayman's illuminating portrait of the iconic Chinese artist

Positivity In Pop: An Interview With Kwes


His status as a producer is assured, but with the Meantime EP Kwes is stepping into the spotlight. In advance of his London show with Micachu on Saturday, Kiran Acharya meets him to talk Warp Records, visual art, and cabbages



Countdown To Hero: Avengers Assemble Reviewed

Kiran Acharya catches the latest Marvel Comics adaptation, written and directed by cult fantasy favourite Joss Whedon

Flatpack Film Festival Report

Kiran Acharya samples the varied cinematic delights of last week's Birmingham event. Main image from Destino

Big Riffs At Close Quarters: And So I Watch You From Afar

 Interviewed

The Northern Irish quartet arrived on a wave of confidence and unity, but after a year peppered with international acclaim and broken bones they lost their founding guitarist. Kiran Acharya spoke to the band about the recording of second album Gangs

Ghostly Tales In Amsterdam: 13&God Interviewed

Kiran Acharya talks to 13&God about death, poetry, beats and their new album Own Your Ghost

Battles

Gloss Drop