It might always take a little while for January to grind into gear in terms of releases and musicians doing things, but that hasn’t stopped our keyboards from clattering, words firing up into the site ...

By February 1995, when their third album Pygmalion crept out to absolutely zero fanfare, Slowdive were already a ghost of a ...

Guitars and more guitars and other, different guitars are staving off the January blues for Jennifer Lucy Allan, who returns ...

With the publication of his new essay collection, Clean Living Under Difficult Circumstances, talks to Richard King about blogs, brutalism, and the link between Adam Curtis and Mark Fisher ...

The centrepiece of Wong Kar-wai's melancholy drama Happy Together is a raw depiction of gay romance, but it speaks to the filmmaker's wider fascination with Hong Kong migrant cinema, finds Ian Wang ...

After cheering up the nation with her lockdown kitchen discos, Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes Fergal Kinney through her 13 favourite albums, from Blur to Madonna, Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac and musicals ...

In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing ...

In his Baker's Dozen, the Circle frontman talks about converting people to the Dead; why Pori might have the highest concentration of Cardiacs fans in Europe, and what he learned from Faust's ...

We put in a long-distance call to Brazil to ask The Mission frontman and former Sister Of Mercy about the gems in his record collection Ahead of their performance at this year’s Green Man festival, ...

Barnaby Southcombe and his leading lady/mum Charlotte Rampling chat to Anna Coatman about their London noir, which opens in cinemas this Friday ...

Adam Lehrer talks to Phil Todd and Mel Ó Dubhshláine about the release of an expansive anthology charting almost 30 years' work by cult psychedelic band, Ashtray Navigations In this month’s Genre is ...

Francesca Scotrick-Boyd catches up with artist Rachel Maclean to discuss fairytales and fake news ...