Tim Booth
James frontman Tim Booth reflects on keeping meditation under your hat, Iggy’s tail and how Brian Eno knocked some scents into him
The 1980s Madrid Electronic Music Scene
In 1980s Madrid, La Movida Madrileña, a hedonistic counterculture movement emerged in the wake of Franco’s death. With it came a wave of electronic music that is seeing a reappraisal four decades on
The Mick Jones Tape
Freewheeling through time and space, Kris Needs continues his adventures in sound. This month: Eleanor Grant’s ‘(I Am Ready) Sexual Healing’
Laurie Anderson ‘O Superman’
Laurie Anderson tells us about the very unassuming way her massive 1981 hit, ‘O Superman’, came to be
Zdeněk Liška
Resident archivist Jack Dangers disappears down the rabbit hole of soundtracks by Czechoslovakian composer Zdeněk Liška
Louis Borlase
Squid’s Louis Borlase reveals the first and last albums he bought and the one he turns to in an emergency
Submarine Broadcasting Company
Location: Newbury, UK Est: 2017
Bashung ‘Play Blessures’ (Philips, 1982)
Alain Bashung is a tough enigma to crack.
Roddy Woomble
Roddy Woomble takes a seat as we plug in the quick-fire question machine and press the “Go” button
The United States of America
Big place, America. So big that if our so-called columnist ever visited he could easily get lost