Thomas Dolby: Cover Story

byMat Smith
August 8, 2024

Thomas Dolby and ‘The Flat Earth’ graphic designers Malcolm Garrett and Baker Dave discuss the album’s striking artwork, which depicts the dashing Dolby as “explorer, prospector and adventurer”

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Mat Smith

Devo: In The Beginning Was The End… 50 years of De-Evolution

byMark Roland

As comic-book lab scientists Devo celebrate their 50th anniversary with a new boxset of archive treasures, they’ve also announced a farewell tour. Have the spudboys really run out of sap?

LLong Reads

30 minute read

Soft Cell: Dancing In The Dark

byNeil Mason

After Dave Ball’s passing last year, Soft Cell’s farewell album ‘Danceteria’ – an upbeat tribute to the glamour and grit of early 1980s New York – has become an unexpectedly emotional final statement...

LLong Reads

6 minute read

Wax Trax! Records: Crushed By The Wheels Of Industry

byMark Roland

‘Industrial accident: the story of Wax Trax! Records’ is a forthcoming documentary about… wait for it… Wax Trax! Records. It’s the story of one of the most exciting labels ever, an imprint that lodged its idiosyncratic brand of dark ‘n’ dirty electronic music deep into the American heartland

LLong Reads

8 minute read

Alex Paterson: Sphere And Now

byBen Murphy

As driven and restless as ever, and with a new, career-spanning “director’s cut” compilation in the shops, The Orb’s Alex Paterson reflects on his eventful 30-year journey – with good tales, to boot

LLong Reads

10 minute read

The Advisory Circle: In The Round

byBob Fischer

Cate Brooks is The Advisory Circle, and the retro synths of latest album ‘Full Circle’ hark back to her earliest days on Ghost Box. In a rare and candid interview, she admits it’s been “a hell of a journey” to get there

LLong Reads

8 minute read

International Teachers Of Pop: Fun with some Teachers, man

byFat Roland

Female-fronted synthpop that would have ridden roughshod over the charts in the good old days. Hands up who wants to hear Sheffield’s International Teachers Of Pop?