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‘He wore tartan pyjamas to the laundry!’ Electro mashup masters Jockstrap come clean
They have made one of the albums of the year, a mind-bending trip through pop history that leaves a chaotic, kaleidoscopic mosaic in its wake. We meet them in Penzance, where the singer had her first snog
John Doran
13, Sep, 2022 @2:51 PM
End of the Road review – post-punk, cosmic jazz and weirdo pop offer a genuine alternative
The real gold is further down the bill, from the angelic vocals of Circuit des Yeux to the distortion of Wu-Lu and the Vegas showman meets tropical funk of Perfume Genius
John Doran
05, Sep, 2022 @3:23 PM
The Mars Volta: ‘The most revolutionary thing we could do was to make a pop record’
After their 2013 split left fans in shock, Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López reveal how the Church of Scientology drove them apart – and inspired their surprise new album
John Doran
12, Aug, 2022 @7:00 AM
‘I’m worshipping anger as a holy force’: dub, dancehall and destruction with the Bug
For three decades Kevin Martin has detonated the British music scene with various apocalyptically noisy projects – all as a way to ‘get over the crushing tyranny of existence’
John Doran
01, Sep, 2021 @5:00 PM
Satanic bikers, time portals and the Fall: the story of Mark E Smith’s secret screenplay
While the Fall’s songs were suffused with hauntings and the occult, it is only now that Smith’s talent for strange fiction, in the form of an unmade film The Otherwise, has been revealed
John Doran
13, May, 2021 @3:00 PM
‘10,000 tiny instruments’: how Lego made the experimental album of 2021
With the soothing noise of its bricks clicking against one another, Lego White Noise joins the ranks of great musique concrète – and documents a potentially doomed sound
John Doran
04, May, 2021 @11:00 AM
The 100 greatest UK No 1s: No 4, Donna Summer – I Feel Love
Hypnotic synth, peerless vocals and visionary ambition make the 1977 genre-busting hit a turning point in pop and a truly timeless track
John Doran
02, Jun, 2020 @8:00 AM
Grace Jones: where to start in her back catalogue
In Listener’s Digest, our writers help you explore the work of great musicians. Today: the strident, sensual, muscular disco, funk and pop reggae of Grace Jones
John Doran
13, Apr, 2020 @6:57 AM
We're doomed: how Sunn O))) made metal for the masses
With their positivity, euphoria and transcendence, the group open up a portal for converts to metal, turning it into high art
John Doran
20, Nov, 2019 @10:33 AM
Fat White Family: 'Every one of us had a hard drug or drink problem'
They gained notoriety for their live shows, class war politics and debauchery. Why have the Peckham band swapped it all for health spas and flute solos?
John Doran
09, May, 2019 @3:17 PM
Milhões de Festa festival: dive in the pool for doom, dub and dada
Sly and the Family Drone, MMMMOOONNNOOO, Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs … silly band names are not in short supply at this rural Portuguese festival. Neither is a glorious spirit of musical adventure
John Doran
24, Jul, 2017 @3:20 PM
Peter Gabriel – 10 of the best
Offbeat lyrical twists, innovative sounds and a deep commitment to African culture have attended the career of this musical explorer
John Doran
02, Nov, 2016 @9:48 AM
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