Suicide: A Punk Mass
Alan Vega and Martin Rev talk through the earliest days of Suicide and offer hints of what we can expect from the pioneering synthpunk duo’s “Punk Mass” show at the Barbican in London
Karin Park: Nordic Noir
Electronic artists sometimes struggle to make their music work in a live setting. But not much-lauded electro-popster Karin Park, as our behind-the-scenes peek at the London show on her recent UK tour proves
Róisín Murphy
To mark the release of ‘Hairless Toys’, her first album for eight years, former Moloko singer Róisín Murphy maps out her journey from then to now via the people and places she’s encountered on the way
We Are The Muzik Makers
In 1995, a new music magazine catapulted underground electronic music into the mainstream. To mark 20 years since the first issue of MUZIK, we track down its founders to tell the full story (although it wasn’t that hard to find them)
Renegade Soundwave ‘Biting My Nails’
Gary Asquith winds back to 1989 and recounts a tale about cocaine, cursed death masks and a somewhat informal business meeting with Robert Plant
Walls: Get Your Mortar Running
Bringing the Walls trilogy to a conclusion with ‘Urals’, is this the end of the road or just the beginning of a new journey for the Anglo-Italian duo?
Martin Gore: Oh MG!
Despite his new solo album being entirely instrumental, Depeche Mode’s Martin Gore isn’t a man lost for words
Gnod’s Guide To Islington Mill: The Collective Spirit Of The New Manchester Scene
Electronic psychonauts Gnod operate out of Islington Mill, a Grade II listed Victorian cotton mill in Salford that has somehow escaped the gentrification tidal wave and now houses a vibrant community of musicians, labels, artists, designers, photographers and printers. Gnod’s charismatic lynchpin Paddy Shine takes us on a tour of the unique building at the epicentre of a creative revolution
Blanck Mass: Flesh And Blood
Taking time out from Fuck Buttons, Benjamin John Power has unleashed another Blanck Mass album. It’s called ‘Dumb Flesh’ and unleash is the operative word…
A Sheffield Story: From Vice Versa To Abc
Hard as it is to fathom, the gold lamé and grand orchestral pop of Sheffield’s ABC developed out of post-punk experimentalist outfit Vice Versa. What were they putting in the water up there in South Yorkshire?