The thing with making your own art is that you get to decide when you compromise. Metz have been in a noise-rock party-of-one ever since their inception almost a decade ago, setting the barrier to …

Many traditional instruments invoke specific mental images in the listener, but few will be as ingrained as those of the harp; once feted as a device of the angels as they lay around with little el…

Released : 2015 Detroit has had many sons, but few have come more when chosen by it than Joe Casey, a singer in the old tradition of stern indiscipline, a man who walks the city’s lines, in a…

It’s a phenomenon most pronounced in acting – just ask Macaulay Culkin – but the notion of being career trapped within the straitjacket of a single performance can be just as dama…

Ima’s obliquely nods to seven years of post acid house history, when all of the optimism, warmth and stranger-hugging reflexivity were coalesced that the results were most effective.”

It's one of the most iconic freak outs of the pre-gentrified Glastonbury; The Verve's 1993 set promised much, but had never really lit up until the epic, nine-minute closer Gravity Grave. Only partial video clips remain, but combined with the audio it unfolds magically, a barefoot, shamanic Richard Ashcroft somewhere in a parallel universe, whilst Nick McCabe carves out slabs of FX drenched noise.

In the past they used to talk about things being ‘in the water’ when exceptional stuff happened in specific places, but perhaps it’s a lot simpler than that. The Calder Valley is …

Many good stories start with a case of beer and a blank canvas, so maybe the newly formed Protmartyr had some kind of premonition when entering Chicago’s Hi Bias studios in late 2011. With on…

ALT: a man with a beard is making a funny face and says not me .

As an artist the last thing you want to hear said about your work is the phrase ‘diminishing returns’. For some avoiding it is more difficult than others – imagine for instance if…