Sparks: “You never know when you’re foretelling the future in a song” ...

by Ben Hogwood

Ron Mael on the brothers’ new album A Steady Drip, Drip, Drip, keeping sane in lockdown and the absolute necessity of music

Tim Burgess: “I just dream, and that’s how songs come now” – Interview

by Ben Hogwood

With his new album I Love The New Sky out this week, the sometime Charlatan talks Twitter, isolation and the post-pandemic world

DELANILA: “There’s a lot of stuff thrown at us at all times. It gets overwhelmi...

by Ben Hogwood

Danielle Schwob on her alter ego’s electronic album, working with Jóhann Jóhannsson, Sir David Attenborough and Ben Folds, and lockdown life

The Gipsy Kings: “To us it’s just our music, and it feels good” – Q...

by Alan Ashton-Smith

Lead guitarist Tonino Baliardo on the Bamboleo stars’ 40 years in business

Air’s Nicolas Godin: “Louis XIV had very good taste” – Interview

by Ben Hogwood

Music and architecture have always been natural bedfellows, especially in the lives of French duo Air. The two, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, met as...

A Winged Victory For The Sullen: “There should be space to be inside the music, w...

by Ben Hogwood

Dustin O’Halloran and Adam Wiltzie have gathered with musicOMH via Skype to discuss the pair’s fifth album release as A Winged Victory For The Sullen....

Sean O’Hagan: “I thought, if Tyler, The Creator’s doing it, I’ll do it!...

by Steven Johnson

Sean O’Hagan has been making music for over 30 years in one form or another. During our conversation in the foyer of London’s Queen Elizabeth...

808 State’s Graham Massey: “When rave came along, I felt culturally and tec...

by Ben Hogwood

When electronic dance music exploded into the pop charts 30 years ago there were doubts around its longevity in the UK. But to the surprise...

Q&A: Africa Express – Moonchild Sanelly, Muzi and Poté on new album EGOLI

by Michael Hubbard

Africa Express, the sprawling cross-cultural exchange initiated by Damon Albarn and journalist Ian Birrell in 2005 which has since spawned marathon live shows, collaborations, four...

75 Dollar Bill: “Build the thing so you can make the sound you are after” &...

by Daniel Paton

Formed in New York in 2012, 75 Dollar Bill have been exploring a part-composed, part-improvised and highly meditative sound world for several years, eventually coming...

Richard Hawley: “We are being led by psychopaths.” – Interview

by Ben Hogwood

Richard Hawley declares himself “well braindead” on arrival. He has been doing a day of interviews, chatting about new album Further, with each one overrunning....

David Gray: “I’m about dispatches from NW3, walking the dog in Hampstead”...

by Ben Hogwood

David Gray is in a chipper mood. There are several reasons for this – the brightness of the cold, wintry morning on which we connect...

Rocket Girl’s Vinita Joshi: “Music gave so much to me, I wanted to give som...

by Sam Shepherd

Fully 20 years ago in London, after her time with Cheree and Che Records, Vinita Joshi was taking her first steps towards launching Rocket Girl...

Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper: “We really wanted that southern gothic feel that...

by Steven Johnson

The guitarist on Mercury Rev’s reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete album

Shirley Collins: ” I despair of the population who allowed themselves to be foole...

by Ben Hogwood

Shirley Collins is truly a force of nature. Now in her early 80s, the folk singer continues to make music and develop as though she...

Sunn O)))’s Greg Anderson: “I try not to take for granted that we’ll be g...

by Sam Shepherd

What began as a way for Greg Anderson and Stephen O’Malley to document their early musical endeavours back in 1998 has developed into a label...

Bernard Butler: “I became like a sponge” – Interview

by Ben Hogwood

Take a look at Bernard Butler’s discography and you will be surprised. Aside from the obvious entries of his huge contribution to Suede (the first...

Sting & Shaggy: “It was very much an accident” – Interview

by Ben Hogwood

There can only be one question to begin this interview – and it is just one word. Why?

The National’s Bryce Dessner on composing, collaborations and minimalist mentors

by Ben Hogwood

Bryce Dessner is in town – the Southbank Centre in London, to be more precise. Seizing the opportunity while his colleagues in The National are...

Erland Cooper: “I can see the seals, gannets and fishermen” – Interview

by Ben Hogwood

Erland Cooper is daydreaming. We are sat in his North London studio at the end of a hard day’s rehearsing and recording, nursing a peppermint...