Throbbing Gristle at Butler’s Wharf (December, 1979)

In 1980s Madrid, La Movida Madrileña, a hedonistic counterculture movement emerged in the wake of Franco’s death. With it came a wave of electronic music that is seeing a reappraisal four decades on

The Castlemorton Common Festival took place 32 years ago. The week-long free party sent panic through British society and is recounted here in glorious technicolour

Anti-diva and all-round creative polymath, Stereo Total’s late Françoise Cactus caused something of a rumpus when, in 2004, she exhibited a life-size woollen sex doll… yup, you read that right

What to make of the musical mind-melt that saw The Fall’s Mark E Smith hook up with Düsseldorf experimentalists Mouse On Mars? Jan St Werner takes us behind the scenes with Von Südenfed

Heldon guitarist and electronics innovator Richard Pinhas reflects on some memorable encounters with Kraftwerk