Oliver Cookson

Cherry Ice Cream Smiles: Duran Duran’s Rio Revisited

Rio was released thirty years ago this week. John Freeman looks back at an archetypal 80s pop album which became Duran Duran's defining moment.

HEXA/David Lynch Performance To Return

Sound project by Lawrence English and Jamie Stewart of Xiu Xiu in response to Lynch photographs set for another performance in 2017

Transgressive & Alien: ADULT.’s Favourite Albums

As ADULT. prepare to tour Europe, Nicola Kuperus and Adam Miller tell Daniel Dylan Wray about their 13 favourite albums drawn from the tough and leather side of life, from Throbbing Gristle to Nitzer Ebb, Einstürzende Neubauten to Drexciya

The Show: Michael Cragg’s Wild Ride Through Early-00s Pop Music

With his new book *Reach for the Stars*, Michael Cragg explores the backstage tears and Prozac prescriptions that fuelled the legendary stars of the new millennium, from Girls Aloud to Atomic Kitten

Pixies Detail New Album, ‘The Night The Zombies Came’

The group's 10th album is preceded by lead single 'Chicken'

Pixies To Release New Album This Year

Pixies' as-yet untitled new album is due later this year

Ulrika Spacek: Debut LP & Hear She’s A Cult

London-based band announce The Album Paranoia's release on Tough Love and Lefse in February, preceded by two live dates next month

Chemical Brothers

Born In The Echoes

Diabolical Crackers: Trans Am’s Favourite Albums

With new LP Volume X just out, the Washington D.C. trio split the top albums rundown three ways and self-pen us their Baker's Dozen

LISTEN: New Kristin Hersh

Throwing Muses founder shares track from ever-confessional new album; check it out below

Duran Duran Versus Japan: The Substance Of Style

In 1982 Japan called it a day and Duran Duran became certified superstars but also that year something altered indelibly about what it meant to be a "fashionable" band. Maddy Sparham looks at what was gained and what was lost

Pixies Detail New Album, ‘Doggerel’

It's their fourth studio album since first reuniting in 2004

Alchemy Happens: Lou Rhodes’s Favourite Albums

Penning her own Baker's Dozen of albums that shaped her career as both a member of Lamb and a solo artist, the singer picks 13 records that represent her "soul-music", following the release of theyesandeye