Gavin Friday: Renaissance Man 

Percolating endless ideas, racking up aliases, running multiple labels and still serving up groundbreaking releases, Coldcut are marking 30 years at the coalface with a renewed vigour. Matt Black and Jonathan More step into 2017 full of new music, coming your way on their original, newly revived Ahead Of Our Time imprint…

From Mellotrons to Claviolines, Dutch sonic project The Analogues scour the planet for vintage kit to enable them to replicate The Beatles’ post-touring albums perfectly. The band’s musical director Bart Van Poppel tells us how they’re getting better all the time

Collecting a dazzling array of New Order production jobs stretching back to the 80s, the scope and scale of Manchester’s finest when behind a mixing desk is laid bare on the ‘New Order Presents Be Music’ compilation

In his first volume of memoirs, Stephen Morris tackles growing up in Macclesfield and how he ended up as the drummer in Joy Division.  We talk to him about the idea of independence, why it was embraced  in 1970s Manchester and how Factory’s version ended up on top

Arab Strap’s Aiden Moffat retires his L Pierre side project with a fourth album, a vinyl-only release with no sleeve that samples a 1948 Mendelssohn concerto…

He landed the inaugural Independent Chart’s first Number One single with Spizzenergi’s ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’. Four decades on, the irrepressible Spizz shows little sign of slowing down…