Paul Tucker

Caterina Barbieri Live: Weird Noises To Make Sense Of The World

While watching Caterina Barbieri perform live at Brighton Digital Festival held at the Attenborough Centre For The Creative Arts (ACCA), Paul Tucker wonders what experimental music does to our consciousness that makes it seem so powerful

Scattered Bodies

Talking Songs

LIVE REPORT: Fire! At Cafe Oto

Paul Tucker heads to Oto for a set by a Johan Berthling, Andreas Werliin and Mats Gustafsson of the Fire! Orchestra. Photo by Fabio Lugaro

Mysterious Handsome Men: An Interview With Girl Band

Dublin's Girl Band tore through Quietus HQ earlier this year with their unhinged and brilliant cover of Blawan's 'Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage'. Paul Tucker met them to discuss the quirks of self-recording and why they're infuriated by Nirvana comparisons

LIVE REPORT: Chelsea Wolfe

The new material performed at Chelsea Wolfe's recent show in London boded very well for her upcoming new album, reports Paul Tucker

Various Artists

Sub Pop 1000

‘A Thousand Braying Asses’: Kim Gordon & Churnalism’s Busy Sewer

This week's sensationalist reframing of a nuanced profile of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to focus entirely upon her split from Thurston Moore, writes Paul Tucker, cast light on a wider problem

The Men

New Moon

Marching To Superfuzz: Mudhoney Interviewed

Grunge forefathers Mudhoney recently released a DVD of their seminal 1988 show in Berlin, which saw them debuting some of their now-classic early material; Paul Tucker talked to the band's Mark Arm about the band then and now

LIVE REPORT: Flying Lotus, Troxy

Last Friday in London, Steven Ellison's new audiovisual show took Paul Tucker's brain to another dimension. Photos courtesy of Simon Parry

Chelsea Wolfe

Unknown Rooms

Fuel For The Fire: An Interview With Anywhere

"Who doesn't love pondering the unobtainable or the completely ridiculous?" Paul Tucker speaks to Christian Eric Beaulieu about the creation of Anywhere's debut album alongside Cedric Bixler-Zavala

Calexico

Algiers

This Is Forever? At The Drive-In Live At Brixton

“GOOD MORNING MIAMI!” After twelve years, At the Drive-In finally lay Relationship of Command to rest - and they do so in typically uncompromising fashion. Photos: Simon Parry

LIVE REPORT: Port Eliot Festival

Christopher Biggins, thousands of poshos, John Cooper Clarke, the naughty gents of nature from Caught By The River, Stealing Sheep, Toy and Weatherall... ah, it can only be the Port Eliot Festival

LIVE REPORT: Port Eliot Festival

Three and a half days spent at Port Eliot Festival, reports Paul Tucker, offered some of the most cerebral, eclectic and eccentric entertainment you could hope for

Japandroids

Celebration Rock