For 40 years, Jon Spencer has been playing a mutant strain of rock & roll. Here he offers Mark Andrews 10 entry points to his vast back catalogue, from his earliest days in Pussy Galore, through the Blues Explosion all the way up to his still-nameless new band
For 40 years, Jon Spencer has been playing a mutant strain of rock & roll. Here he offers Mark Andrews 10 entry points to his vast back catalogue, from his earliest days in Pussy Galore, through the Blues Explosion all the way up to his still-nameless new band
One-time postman, Sean Kitching, talks to musician and label boss, Joe Thompson, and author and photographer, Kevin Boniface, about the ups and downs of the profession in the current perilous political and economic climate
As Kate Bush prepares to release a new LP based on her classic The Sensual World, we dig into the Rock's Backpages archive for a piece with Len Brown's 7 October 1989 NME interview looking at the background to the record, and her own track-by-track guide to the songs within.
When the band PVA asked if they could do something slightly different for their interview we were only too happy to assist, with the help of a witchcraft shop in Hackney and a deck of tarot cards. Words: Jim Osman. Portraits: Rachel Lipsitz. With thanks to Helgi's Bar and the state51Conspiracy