Features

After four decades at the coalface, New Order remain one of the coolest and hottest bands on the planet. How do you pull off a trick like that? In an exclusive interview, we talk to frontman Bernard Sumner about the group’s incredible staying power and their tireless push for perpetual forward motion

Mark Reeder is one of the many intriguing characters to have emerged from the outrageously fertile Manchester music scene of the late 1970s. Here he talks about New Order, his life in berlin, the art of the remix

With an almighty album of analogue improvisations spread over four 10-inch vinyl discs about to remind the world that Radiophonic Workshop’s influence on electronic music is immeasurable, we meet them to find out how the old days shaped the future

In March, they played their biggest-ever headline show in front of 10,000 people at London’s Alexandra Palace. Entitled ‘The Surreal Carnival Experiment’, it blew the doors off any ideas of what a live show should be. But what did you expect? This is Underworld after all

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…

From his time in 1970s reggae trailblazers Matumbi to his recent work with The Pop Group, Dennis Bovell is a man so steeped in dub that he can even make Joss Stone sound good. Production licks? He’s got ‘em

From art provocateur to porn star to electronic music legend (Throbbing Gristle, Chris & Cosey, Carter Tutti), there’s nobody quite like Cosey Fanni Tutti. Which is perhaps just as well. No wonder her autobiography – ‘Art Sex Music’, a title that pretty much sums up her incredible life – is every bit as revealing and shocking and fascinating as you might imagine