Sophie Robinson

Test Dept On AV Festival & Remembering The Miners’ Strike

Next weekend, members of 80s clatterers Test Dept head to the AV Festival to carry out an installation commemorating the Miners' Strike. Here, Graham Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy discuss the project, and state why, in the current political climate, remembering those events is so important

“I Feel Like This Is My Best Work”: James Mercer Of The Shins Interviewed

David Pollock talks to James Mercer before the release of their much anticipated new album, Port Of Morrow

The Noise Of Art: Trevor Horn On ZTT’s 30th Birthday

Al Niven talks to Trevor Horn about three decades of Zang Tuum Tumb

“A Long Tradition Of Pessimists”: Roll The Dice Play Ball

Wyndham Wallace talks to Stockholm's Roll The Dice about the influences at play on their second album, In Dust

Sunn O))) Plan Reissue

2008's DØMKIRKE will be available on double-vinyl from next month

BREAKING: Nick Cave Statue Update!

Reports suggest a ‘110% life size’ bronze Cave will be erected in Australian hometown

Live Report: Metz At Moth Club London

Sean Kitching revels in the berserk stagecraft of the Canadian noise rock band who play like "it's the last gig before the end of the world". Photographs by StarLynn Jacobs

Portishead on: collaborating with Public Enemy

Love And Other Tragedies: Roger O’Donnell Interviewed

Ned Raggett talks to multi-instrumentalist and sometime Cure member Roger O'Donnell about his numerous musical projects

Total Fucking Amnesia: Silverfish Interviewed

At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power T-shirts – but since then they seem to have fallen irrevocably (and unfairly) down the memory hole. Keith Kahn-Harris catches up with band members today and asks: What happened?

Stuck In His Own Head: An Interview With Gruff Rhys

The Super Furry Animals man talks to Valerie Siebert about his new album Hotel Shampoo, writing songs for Britney Spears and why he wants Sylvester Stallone to play him in a film

Mute To Release Carter Tutti Void Record!

Roundhouse collaboration gets release

INTERVIEW: Islam Chipsy

We catch up with Islam Chipsy ahead of his appearance in London this week

Autopsy Turvy: Oozing Wound Interviewed

With their second full-length, Earth Suck, out now, Nick Hutchings talks to the Chicago thrash trio possessed of "the desire to slay"

Viva Exthopia! The Ex On Ethiopian Music

Ahead of their appearance across Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht this November Terrie Hessels, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Arnold de Boer of The Ex sit down with Noel Gardner to talk about the importance of Ethiopian music. Features exclusive Fendika track

Monoliths & Mysteriis: Sunn O))) Vokillist Attila Csihar Interviewed

Manish Agarwal talks to Attila Csihar about Sunn O))), a life in metal and some seriously massive slabs of rock