Krautrock: 10 Definitive Albums

We’ve had 10 years of wonderful music and fabulous visuals from those genre-defining folk at Ghost Box Records and we’re popping corks with label co-founders Jim Jupp and Julian House to mark the occasion. Stand by for stuff about synths, sci-fi, Bagpuss, electromagnetic fields, alchemists, William Burroughs and haunted dancefloors

Smash hits? They’ve had ’em. Enormodomes? They’ve played the lot. Life? They’ve lived it. With a new album on the shelves, we catch Simple Minds’ founding members Jim Kerr and Charlie Burchill at their Glasgow HQ… forget about them? Not a chance

Reaching for fresh heights with ’Inner Song’, Kelly Lee Owens mixes skilfully crafted lyricism and techno-tinged synthpop on one of the best albums you’ll hear this year

Forty years on from their synthpop masterpiece ‘Freedom Of Choice’, Devo’s Jerry Casale and Mark Mothersbaugh reflect on a record made for 1980 whose dire warnings are more relevant today than ever 

From his seat at the top table of way-out-there electronica, Martin Rev reveals the thinking behind his newly released ‘Demolition 9’ solo album and discusses life after the death of Alan Vega, his long-time partner in Suicide