Features

Since reforming in 2010, The Pop Group have gone about reinventing themselves fit for a musical journey into the 21st century. We join Mark Stewart at the controls…

He is the godfather of disco and so much more. We talk Munich, his Musicland Studios, The Rolling Stones, Queen and Led Zeppelin. temperamental Moogs, Kraftwerk and Donna Summer. David Bowie and Oscar-winning soundtracks. Daft Punk, Space in Ibiza and being a globe-trotting superstar DJ aged 76… It’s time to Say hello to the irrepressible Giorgio Moroder

Lining up as Moby & The Void Pacific Choir, the latest adventure from rave’s first superstar stirs both sonically and morally. Who else can combine angry indignation with hands-in-the-air joy so successfully?

with a little help from potheads, car stereos and tinny supermarket speakers, Kurt Wagner flips the lid and peers into the inner workings of ‘FLOTUS’, the magnificent new Lambchop album

Sleep-deprived – thanks to a flight that required getting out of bed at three in the morning – is probably the best way to discover a new city

Which may well be the case, but when Wire’s Colin Newman also claims he’s a rubbish solo artist we just have to step in. Exhibit A? the lovingly reissued trio of his extraordinary 80s solo albums…

The landscape of the north-west of England is at once rolling green hills and stark man-made skyline. Hailing from Widnes, Baltic Fleet draws Inspiration from these surroundings to create a different kind of escapism