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

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...

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

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...

Interview: 75 Dollar Bill – “Build the thing so you can make the sound you ...

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

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....

Interview: David Gray – “These days I’m about dispatches from NW3, walkin...

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

Interview: Rocket Girl’s Vinita Joshi – “Music gave so much to me, I ...

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...

Interview: Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper – “We really wanted that souther...

One of the more notable releases of the year so far has been Mercury Rev’s reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete album, aided by...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

There can only be one question to begin this interview – and it is just one word. Why? Why would Sting and Shaggy hook up...

Interview: The National’s Bryce Dessner on composing, collaborations and minimali...

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

Interview: Erland Cooper on Orcadian ornithology and solo sounds

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...

Blancmange: “People want wall to wall music. Never mind the chords, feel the widt...

2017 is turning into a very good year for the duo whose name is a wobbly dessert. Blancmange began their work together in 1978, and...

Interview: Nick Mulvey – “We’re touching the miracle of things”

“Someone said, if you want to work on your art, work on yourself. Everything you create is a reflection of where you’re at. Another way...

Interview: OMD

Andy McCluskey is in high spirits. That in itself is an obvious statement, for in a couple of interviews with musicOMH he has never been...

Interview: EMA

“I don’t wanna throw shade on anybody, but there have definitely been times when people will suggest, or make it feel like, [my music’s] impenetrable,...

Interview: Jane Weaver

Jane Weaver’s story is unlike many others’. Her Britpop band Kill Laura were signed to Rob Gretton’s label Manchester Records when they were teenagers, releasing...

Interview: Rick Wakeman

Pianoman Rick Wakeman on what he’d say to Donald Trump, working with David Bowie, the mysterious excuses of train companies, and his new album Piano...