Long Reads

Almost 10 years after Alan Vega’s death, we revisit Suicide’s incendiary frontman as a radical solo artist –……

Kim Gordon’s third solo offering is a sharp-edged jolt of hip hop, krautrock and fractured electronics, laced with dark humour and poetic unease – one heck of a sonic melting pot

He’s the psychedelic alchemist slowly building his own world of sepia-tinted weirdness. So what can we see through Keith Seatman’s window today? 

Esteemed DJ/producer Justin Robertson returns with the second instalment of his Five Green Moons project – an esoteric whirl of “pastoral dub”, post-punk and hauntology...

Meet the Appealingly analogue and quirkily kosmische female duo Curtain Twitcher – the new synth-toting sound of Sheffield

Futurama was the ultimate gathering of the clans. The brainchild of leeds live promoter John Keenan, the legendary post-punk festival ran over two days every year from 1979 to 1983, with punks, goths, futurists and more...

While Alan Vega’s early solo albums lit the fuse, his later works reflect a lifetime of sonic risk-taking, ferocious invention and urban dread

Fearlessly unpredictable, mercurial trio Voka Gentle blend left-field pop, folk and experimental sounds to sparkling effect 

Fresh from Manchester’s electronic underground, Crimewave twists warped loops, trip hop vibes and shoegazey fuzz into a blistering maelstrom of energy – with not a synth in sight