Throbbing Gristle
Rattling on about whatever the heck he likes these days, our freshly-plucked free-range columnist recalls his first encounter, 40 years ago, with a new band called Throbbing Gristle…
Crooked Acres
Location: West Yorkshire Est: 2017
Merrill Garbus
Merrill Garbus of Tune-yards reveals the first and last records she bought and the one she couldn’t live without
Boyd Rice / Frank Tovey ‘Easy Listening For The Hard Of Hearing’ (Mute, 1984)
Originally recorded in 1981 at London’s Blackwing Studio, this brilliant maniacal fusion of weird soundscapes and fucked up noise ideology is one of the records that got away.
Ian Parton
The Go! Team’s Ian Parton explains how Detroit is the star of the show on this joy-fuelled outing
Trevor Horn: Clever Trevor
With the release of remastered versions of classic ZTT albums by Frankie Goes To Hollywood and Propaganda, the label’s co-creator Trevor Horn discusses the controversial chart-topping smash hits, the law suits and some eye-wateringly expensive synths
Why does it hurt when my heart misses the beat?
As ‘A Secret Wish’ gets a welcome reissue this month, Propaganda founder Ralf Dörper retells the incredible tale behind one of the most striking acts of the 1980s
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith: Doing it by the Buchla
Appearing seemingly out of nowhere with her stop-you-in-your-tracks album ‘The Kid’, Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith talks Buchla, the great outdoors, Buchla, why electronic music very much isn’t cold and uninviting… and Buchla
Fukiya & Miyagi: “We’ve never even been to Japan”
What’s in a name? Quite a lot it’d seem if you are as misunderstood as Fujiya & Miyagi, whose warm, thrumming tunes are… well, what? we do our best to get to the bottom of the whole thing