Matthew E. White
“If you ask one new question I will be very excited.” Sam Walton meets a straight-talking Matthew E. White, the soul man behind Spacebomb, 2013 sleeper hit 'The Big Inner' and new album 'Fresh Blood'
View ArticleSound Savers
East London's DIY scene seems to have shrunk. Considerably so in the past 3 or 4 years, so it's a good job for Sound Savers, a new DIY studio and practice space that’s adapting to the gentrification of...
View ArticleThe Go-Betweens
RETOLD: Robert Forster’s group spent the 1980s chasing a hit single that constantly outran them. To Daniel Dylan Wray, he recalls the frustrating, nearly-there-but-not-quite history of The Go-Betweens
View ArticleFather John Misty
Before he became Father John Misty, a miserable Josh Tillman spent seven years writing the kind of music he thought was expected of him. Then he got high, fell in love and exorcised his demons with a...
View ArticleLoneLady
When Julie Campbell named her solo project LoneLady, she couldn’t have known just how apt that title would become. The making of her new album, ‘Hinterland’, was an isolating, painful experience
View ArticleLightning Bolt
RITUAL DEVELOPMENT: Noise duo Lightning Bolt discuss their first album of new material in six years, embracing their differences and learning to live with playing on stage rather than in the middle of...
View ArticleHeems
LIVING IN AMERICA: Former member of alt-rap group Das Racist, Heems has just released his debut album, ‘Eat, Prey, Thug’ – a deeply personal and political record about the sorry regression of race...
View ArticleBlanck Mass
TELL ME ABOUT IT: Fuck Buttons member Benjamin John Power met David Zammitt to do all the talking about his new, second album as Blanck Mass, 'Dumb Flesh'
View ArticleIan MacKaye
Ian MacKaye’s influence on the world of underground music cannot be overstated, from the small but perfect cannon of Minor Threat to the inspiration of clean living and the rejection of corporate...
View ArticleThe Eccentronic Research Concil
IT'S GOOD TO STALK: With the help of The Fat White Family, Sheffield trio The Eccentronic Research Council have produced a new concept record about a fictional band and their obsessive superfan
View ArticleDu Blonde
Inspired by the V&A’s retrospective David Bowie exhibition, Beth Jeans Houghton has killed off her old self to become DU BLONDE – an artist battling misogyny with songs written on the back of...
View ArticleSauna Youth
Shortly after they formed in 2009 Sauna Youth became the most respected underground band in the country. They’ve since worked tirelessly to make everything they do appear completely effortless
View ArticleHolly Herndon
SEMINAR FOR ONE: As far away from small talk as you can get, experimental electronic composer and academic Holly Herndon discusses modern futurism, the NSA and what the Internet can still do for us
View ArticleJohnny Jewel
COVER FEATURE: Johnny Jewel explains to Reef Younis how he operates on a 27-hour day to doggedly protect his artist freedom and maintain the most successful cottage industry in pop music
View ArticleLuke Haines
PSYCHEDLIC COOKBOOK: Currently in the process of crowd-funding a rock’n’roll recipe book, we asked Luke Haines to have Daniel Dylan Wray over for dinner. He actually said yes
View ArticleAnton Newcombe
TELL ME ABOUT IT: The Brian Jonestown Massacre have just released fictional French movie soundtrack 'Musique de film imaginé'. Alex Wisgard met their infamous leader and let him do the talking
View ArticleBill Wells & Aidan Moffat
CITY BOYS: For their second collaborative album, Aidan Moffatt and jazz multi-instrumentalist Bill Wells worship the city and all its possibilities. Daniel Dylan Wray stayed up all night with them
View ArticleHEALTH
NEW RACKETS PLEASE: HEALTH have recorded a new record inspired by modern hip-hop, high-end production and slamming electronics. Stuart Stubbs met the LA 'post-noise' (?) band at Primavera Sound
View ArticleJenny Hval
SOME KIND OF RAWNESS: On her new, fifth album, Norwegian artist and musician Jenny Hval is exploring feminism from a personal angle. She spoke with James F. Thompson
View ArticleEzra Furman
NO HARD FEELINGS: Ezra Furman has come to accept that without his religious beliefs and sexual ambiguity he wouldn’t have been able to make his best record yet
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