4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (649+ words) With new album Walk It Dry premiering exclusively below, Sly & The Family Drone leader Matt Cargill tells Patrick Clarke about the traumatic road accident and subsequent recovery that preceded their formidable new record, and the challenges of experimental musicianship during…...

3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (580+ words) Ahead of this weekend’s pivotal election that could see Sweden slip even further to the right, Alan Pedder talks to the artists speaking out about a country on the edge, and rounds up five essential tracks More on Året Var…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1801+ words) “I was getting to the point where I was thinking, I don’t want to be a cabaret revival band. All we were doing is playing songs we wrote 20 years ago.” McKeown, meanwhile, has collaborated with many more musicians across various…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (1806+ words) In an exclusive extract from Tom Hagler’s new book River of Words, the Quietus presents an archive interview between Mitchell and TV presenter Richard Skinner from the BBC’s Saturday Live back in 1983 Joni was in the middle of her world…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (905+ words) Broadcast were my favourite modern band for a while. In Manchester at that time, I was a student there and we were getting Simian together, but at the time it was Twisted Nerve and Andy Votel and this very psychedelic…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (659+ words) We Were Here: A History of Black People and Alternative Music by Stephanie Phillips is published on 27 August by Faber. Stephanie will be in conversation about the book with Gary Powell (The Libertines) at Rough Trade East on 1 September. Tickets…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (584+ words) Tariq Goddard returns to the scene of a teenage crime four decades on and recognises that "terrible music can transcend our understanding just as surely as great music can" The former Sounds/NME scribe and Loaded supremo talks about the…...