Welcome to Night Vale: Things That Go Bump in The Night
It’s the twice-monthly podcast that everyone’s talking about: featuring off-the-wall updates from a fictional backwater community, it’s time to say hello to ‘Welcome to Night Vale’
Thomas Dolby: Weird Science
If we had our way, Thomas Dolby’s biography would be an essential text for music fans everywhere. Book tokens at the ready folks, you’ll need them after our whistle-stop tour through his life less ordinary…
Organ Reframed: A Fine Set of Pipes
Organs belong in cold churches booming out ‘Onward Christian Soldiers’, right? With her Organ Reframed festival at London’s Union Chapel, Claire M Singer has a better use for these grand old instruments
Steve Cobby: One-Man Band
From The Shedio, his Kingston-Upon-Hull home studio, Steve Cobby runs a cottage industry that, via his own Declassé imprint, pings near-perfect musical salvos into the world with a very pleasing regularity
Clint Mansell: Grebo Guru
From Stourbridge to Hollywood, from Pop Will Eat Itself to blockbuster film soundtracks, we pick the brain of in-demand composer Clint Mansell, to see if we can get to the bottom of what it takes to be an, erm, in-demand composer…
From the Other Side of the (Sound)Tracks
Performing alternative soundtracks to cult movies, Asian Dub Foundation’s Chandrasonic and Factory Floor’s Gabriel Gurnsey – who between them have tackled ‘La Haine’, ‘THX 1138’ and ‘Metropolis’ – explain what it’s all about, Alfie
Daniel Miller: Miller Time
Mute Records founder, musician, producer, remixer and DJ, you name it, Daniel Miller has been there, done that, got the t-shirt, and most likely signed the band to his label…
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft: Was is Das? Das ist Daf
You join us in Germany, where Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF to their friends) treat a large, expectant festival crowd to a proper sonic hosing, industrial style. They’ve clearly lost none of their edge in a mere 30-odd years of doing things their own way…
From Forbidden Planet to Blade Runner 2049: The Troubled Past (And Future) of The Sci-Fi Soundtrack
As ‘Blade Runner 2049’ hits cinema screens, the news that the film’s soundtrack composer Jóhann Jóhannsson has been replaced at the 11th hour by Hans Zimmer comes with a sense of déjà vu. Like a time warping Philip K Dick short story, didn’t all this happen before? It certainly did…
Sparks: Firestarters
Ever since their extraordinary debut on UK TV in 1974, Sparks have pushed the boundaries of pop and electronic music. Their latest album suggests that the future still belongs to them