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.

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 ...

If Talking Heads have a magnum opus, it is surely 1980’s Remain in Light. More than a mere maturation in the band’s sound, ...

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 ...

Public Enemy have released a new protest song, ‘March Madness’. Marking the hip hop group’s first original song in five years ...

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

Joy Orbison and Overmono have reprised their joint Joy Overmono alias for a new track, ‘Lippy’. Featuring vocals from ...

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

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

Haress are the unlikely meeting point of Shropshire Folk, 17th Century coin clipping and Staten Island hip hop, says Jeremy ...

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