New York native Veronica Vasicka is an expert in musical archaeology, reviving obscure cold wave and 80s electro via her Minimal Wave imprint. Now on debut EP From Here, the producer, DJ and label boss turns to excavating a hidden musical treasure of her own.

After a disgruntling summer for the UK’s music fans, Elizabeth Aubrey asks when did festivals forget the most important element: fun?

It’s been quite a few weeks for rap disses, hasn’t it? And you’d be forgiven for struggling to keep up with what has become an endless game of diss-ping-pong between Eminem and – well – the world...

“Doing the second album could have been me finding a fancy producer in LA and doing the pop s***”, Héloïse Letissier says about the follow up to the enormously successful debut, Chaleur Humaine...

Katie Crutchfield has such a vast body of work that, in returning to her early songs, she uncovers new worlds...

“When I think of London, I always think of here,” Shirley Manson told a sold-out Brixton Academy last Friday, visibly moved by the warm welcome fans gifted Garbage...

Ever the changing man, Paul Weller approaches his seventh decade with his muse still as restless and hungry as ever...

“Now I need a dance partner,” Kylie called out, mid-way through a rendition of her and Jason Donovan’s iconic duet, Especially For You...

Both the sleeve art and title of Sir Paul McCartney’s 17th solo album are taken from one of his own paintings from the Eighties, which might lead you to suspect that his first record in five years leans towards self-indulgence...

Sons of Kemet bandleader Shabaka Hutchings speaks about his band's Mercury nomination and the London jazz scene.

Eversince his days as a successful YouTuber, candour has been Troye Sivan’s trump card. It’s this insistence on integrity that motivated the Johannesburg-born, Perth-raised singer to come out as gay via video in 2013...

As our conversation continues, it’s evident that Howle prepares meticulously for roles—especially, it seems, when he is working on literary adaptations (Howle has starred in adaptations of Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending, Chekov’s The Seagull and Ian McEwan’s On Chesil Beach)...

During the making of Interpol’s sixth studio album in Manhattan, the police arrived after complaints. “It’s not like we’re Mastadon,” drummer Sam Fogarino joked, “in certain circles we’re considered wimps!”

Simon Pegg greets me at his offices in Soho, huge smile and lunch in hand. It’s just a few weeks after the filming of the upcoming Mission: Impossible 6 has ended and a few weeks before the premiere of Ready Play One was due to air in LA...

As the star graces the cover of next month's British Vogue, could a new album be imminent?

While hip hop beefs are wearily familiar, Mac Miller has somehow managed to engineer a feud with the irascible commander-in-chief...

Miles Kane is back, in case you didn’t hear, with a belter of a record: Coup De Grace (French for “The Final Blow”), his first solo LP in five years...

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis has announced that he will offer up to 500 free tickets to local trainee nurses for next year’s festival.

Paul McCartney took part in a Q&A with Jarvis Cocker today at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA), a school he founded in 1996.

Former Sonic Youth legend Kim Gordon and avant-garde experimentalist Bill Nace have combined forces once more for new album The Switch – the follow up to their 2013 debut, Coming Apart and improvisational 2016 experiment, No Waves.