Interviews
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
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
by Alan Ashton-Smith
Lead guitarist Tonino Baliardo on the Bamboleo stars’ 40 years in business
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 architecture students, and Godin invited his new friend to join...
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. Their collaboration started as an experiment with its first (self-titled)...
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 Hall it becomes clear on multiple levels how it continues...
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 of some, the music has proven naysayers emphatically wrong. Few...
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 albums and launched careers is back. This time the music...
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 to wider attention in the UK with the 2017 reissue...
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. As he nonetheless amiably steels himself for another round of...
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 being one, perhaps – but the more obvious one would...
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 Records. Down the decades, flying solo has meant a lot...
by Steven Johnson
The guitarist on Mercury Rev’s reimagining of Bobbie Gentry’s The Delta Sweete album
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 were half that age. One of the principal reasons for...
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 that’s the go-to place for all things dark, doom-laden, droning...
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 two albums) and McAlmont & Butler, along with his own...
by Ben Hogwood
There can only be one question to begin this interview – and it is just one word. Why?
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 occupied with solo concerns, he has just attended the reopening...
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 tea each. The studio is tidy, and its focal point...
by Ben Hogwood
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 almost 40 years on Neil Arthur and Stephen Luscombe are...
by Michael Hubbard
“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 of putting it is, your only gift is your state...
