It’s 1999, and a school IT lesson deep in the south east London suburbs. Our teacher asked who had a “home PC,” and everyone ...

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Kelela is set to release a new live album, titled In The Blue Light. Spanning 12 tracks, the recordings featured on the LP ...

The road to The Specials' first number one was long but they blazed a trail in finally getting Too Much Too Young to the top ...

Having been on our list of dream Baker’s Dozens for some time, we were thrilled when Shackleton agreed to pen one for us ...

Coil's first album proper is an alchemist's mix of synth pop, industrial, avant garde, rage, humour and transgression ...

The latest work by Irish composer/sound artist Gerard Gormley under the moniker of Being Strangers is an acoustic exploration ...

In the third edition of his column exploring the new wave of boundary-pushing folk and traditional music, Patrick Clarke delves into music's role in our intimate relationship with place, and rounds up ...

Between sunken chants and electronic rhythms, the Parisian duo crack open the future with a blunt industrial wedge ...

12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev ...

The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth ...

There are records that crystallise genres, there are albums that carve out new spaces in established scenes, and there are LPs that, over time, end up symbolising the era in which they were created.