“Scratching is more like a transformation sequence, more like the audio parallel of The Thing or American Werewolf, where you see the human transformed into a werewolf, and just before they ...

In his years as a fixture on the Berlin underground, Manchester polymath Mark Reeder brought Joy Division to the city, managed and produced countless punk bands, rented his spare room to Nick Cave ...

When rumours began circulating of Mark Lawrence’s time on Castro’s hermit kingdom, you couldn’t help but romanticise. Was this to be a story album, a travelogue – The Bass Diaries, if you ...

Detroit electro royalty DJ Stingray 313 re-launches his label, Micron Audio, with a collaboration with Iranian-Canadian visual artist Bahar Noorizadeh. ‘Bioplastics’ heralds the return of ...

Sadly, it looks as though Morrissey’s debut novel is a stinker. Early reviews of List of the Lost have not been kind, with the Guardian’s Michael Hann calling the book – which is about a ...

It’s well-documented that getting your music out there, in 2013, is easier than ever. Whether it’s starting a vinyl label, building the foundations of a one-man Bandcamp empire or indulging ...

No, they’re not going to be releasing jackin’ house. We heard over the summer that TV personality and ex-rapper Coolio was going to attempt to revive his ailing career by releasing a record on ...

Download 44 tracks from one of the most intriguing young crews in hip-hop. SpaceGhostPurrp, the Miami producer/rapper who brought his Southern gloom-and-doom to 4AD, is also the leader of the ...

The title track off the Planet Mu mainstay’s upcoming album gets a icy, graphical visualization. As promised, Ital Tek (aka Alan Myson) joins his Planet Mu contemporaries in their footwork ...

Moz explains his new book List of the Lost. Morrissey’s debut novel List of the Lost hits shelves today courtesy of Penguin Books, . The former Smiths frontman took to his True To You ...

Not that Kim Dotcom ever really went away – despite Megaupload, the filesharing site that he launched, being shut down at the start of this year, he’s kept busy by recording music and teasing ...