All music is inherently syncretic, traditional and contemporary alike, and it’s impossible (not to mention undesirable) to maintain complete musical purity. If this wasn’t the case, there would be no ...

With a combined age somewhere in the region of 130, French couple Pepe and Irene deliver a powerful industrial sound that a band less than half their age would struggle to match. Words: David McKenna.

Black Antlers by Coil Black Antlers comes with less of the mythos that attaches itself to other Coil albums. Where Time ...

With the end of June comes the slew of 2025-so-far charts and its accompanying discourse, the first proper attempt to ...

It was inevitable that David Lynch’s death would prompt re-engagement with his now completed body of work. In the UK at least ...

But Remember What You Have Had is centred, unsurprisingly, around O’Malley’s signature downtuned guitar chords. They sound ...

Mark Andrews looks into the four decade back catalogue of the mutant blues master and finds ten points of entry ...

On a mid-November night last year, fans gathered for a rare show by search-engine impaired French underground trio France, a ...

Berlin festival Gaswerk Music Days, now in its third years, has unveiled the full programme for their 2025 event, which takes ...

Fan” is one of the most abused words in the music business’s lexicon. There is much talk about how to “engage” and “value” ...

Moundabout man gets lost in the rural murk, clanging away in a darkened basement, covering Beyoncé… ...

A long-term fixture on Beirut’s underground experimental music scene, the latest from Sary Moussa is caught between the ...