Guest Column – Rock'n'Roll is due a comeback! We just need the right band... by Drew McConnell
The Helsinki frontman and Babyshambles bassist argues the conditions are right for something new
Columns
Five Songs To Hear This Week – Delia Gonzalez, Applescal, JM Airis, Laura Moody, Spectral Chorus
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (23 Mar)Guest Column – Telling Stories (in song) by Cold War Kids
Partial to a yarn, and the odd bit of religious imagery, in his songs, frontman ’ Nathan Willett address the power of narrative in lyricsGuest Column – Where Have All The Protest Singers Gone? by Super Furry Animals' Cian Ciarán
As the General Election campaign hots up, the solo artist and keyboard player suggests we "start listening and get angry."Tom Williams introduces his new album New Guitar
Without his usual 'The Boat crew, listen to the singer-songwriter's new record in full ahead of its release on Monday (23 Mar)Guest Column – The Punky Reggae Party: A Personal View by Adrian Sherwood
With a new compilation Sherwood At The Controls Volume 1 (out 6 Apr) on the way, the DJ, producer and dub connoisseur recalls Bob Marley's moment of culture-melding magnificenceFive Songs To Hear This Week - This Is The Kit, Sweet Billy Pilgrim, Beach Baby, Team Morale, Sophie Hunger
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (16 Mar)Guest Column – Is my Gang Of One authentic? By Gang Of Four's Andy Gill
As the sole original member involved in the release of the band's new album What Happens Next, the group leader's surveys from INXS to The Fall to examine the concept authenticityFive Songs To Hear This Week - Takaakira Goto, Tandem Felix, The Mirror Trap, JPNSGRLS, The Luka State
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (9 Mar)Guest Column – How to make the perfect Old Fashioned by Citizens!
Just in time for a few cocktails this weekend, the band's Lawrence Diamond shares his recipe for the drink beloved by Man Men and WomenGuest Column – This Musical American Life by Arcade Fire's Will Butler
As he releases his solo album, the multi-instrumentalists goes all Who Do You Think You Are? and delves into his artistic family tree...Five Songs To Hear This Week – Cold War Kids, Pale Honey, Raketkanon, Serpent Power, Lola Colt
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (2 Mar)Guest Column – How I learned to stop worrying and love concept albums by Public Service Broadcasting
J Willgoose explains how Primal Scream, David Bowie and Arcade Fire led him to make a record about the space race...Five Songs To Hear This Week - Rathborne, White Arrows, Taylor Locke, The Princess, Bang Gang
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (24 Feb)Guest Column – Confessions of a vinyl cutter by Abbey Road's Miles Showell
The mastering engineer provides an insight into the vinyl creation process... and how "dance music saved the vinyl format for everyone"Guest Column – The Pop Group: Heavyweight champions of the (pop) world again?
With the band returning with their first album in 35 years, the Paul Epworth-produced Citizen Zombie, their own Gareth Sager argues why they're swagging back into townFive Songs To Hear This Week - Stillwave, Girl Friend, Early Ghosts, House Of Wolves, Stearica
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (16 Feb)Book Extract – Rise Of The Super Furry Animals
In a snippet from Ric Rawlins' new book on the Welsh band, we discover how the pascifists came to own a tank...Guest Column – My adventures in hi-fi by Clive Langer
The acclaimed producer to Bowie, Costello, Madness and more, on a life in the control room and why he's now on the otherside of the mic with band The Clang GroupSound Check – Hozier, Alt-J, Slipknot live
After a mid season break Amy Gravelle returns hecks out a host of acts about to tour near youGuest Column – Have you twigged? LEAF Festival is back...
Ben Turner & Rob da Bank and introduce a second year of their London-based electronic festival in (6-7 March)Five Songs To Hear This Week - Gallery Circus, Suns, Turbowolf, Houdini Dax, Black Peaks
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (9 Feb)Guest Column – Teenage Kicks: Why the bands of my adolescence influence me even now by Jib Kidder
New album Teaspoon To The Ocean might not sound indebted to Jane's Addiction... but it couldn't exist with out Perry Farrell and coFive Songs To Hear This Week - Natalie McCool, FOES, John Joseph Brill, Follakzoid, Zun Zun Egui
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (2 Feb)Guest Column – Sounds & Visions at the Glasgow Film Festival 2015
Sean Greenhorn who curates the event's music related films explains what's on this year (18 Feb - 1 Mar), plus has made us a playlistFive Songs To Hear This Week - Phantom Runners, Stoneghost, Toundra, Apidae, Hawk Eyes
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (26 Jan)Guest Column – Creating a jazz legend in a month, by the director of Whiplash
Damien Chazelle – a drummer himself – on the musical performance behind his Oscar-nominated filmListen to Jape's new album This Chemical Sea – exclusive
Hear the album in full ahead of its release on Monday (26 Jan), plus read the band's guide to the recordGuest Column – Why China is the Wild West of alternative music by Diagrams
Former Tunng man Sam Genders on his adventures in anew music scene, its influence on his just released album and why musicians have "much to gain from looking east"Five Songs To Hear This Week - Jib Kidder, Tonik Ensemble, DMA, Axes, Flying Lotus
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (19 Jan)Guest Column - A brief history of scoring Stephen Hawking film The Theory Of Everything
Jóhann Jóhannsson on soundtracking "a film about a physicist, but it's in essence a rather odd love story..."Five Songs To Hear This Week - Ryley Walker, Man Without Country, Pinkshinyultrablast, Ben Clementine, Viet Cong
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (12 Jan)The Week In Music - Paul McCartney, Kanye West, N.E.R.D. Cat's Eyes... Listen Now
Jonathan Hatchman presents a playlist of the songs that have been making headlines over the last seven days (9 Jan)Five Songs To Hear This Week - Adamski, Wild Beasts, Petite Noir, Billy Momo, The Erised
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (5 Jan)Guest Column – Young And Lost No More: Six things we learned running an indie label
Calling it a day with their final release this month, label founders Nadia Dahlawi and Sara Jade take stock of ten years releasing the likes of Bombay Bicycle Club, Noah And The Whale and moreColumn/ Playlist – Laura Marling to Michael Kiwanuka: An insider's guide to the new-folk explosion
With Laura Marling just announcing plans for her fifth album, Will Stokes – a new folk co-conspirator – takes stock of the West London scene helped bring her and a host of other artists to prominenceGuest Column - Chase & Status: Why Britain rules the soundwaves
As the duo's label MTA Records celebrates its fifth birthday this week (19 Dec), the pair celebrate the impact of British culture and the acts around themGuest Column - Creating the New Elizabethan soundtrack by Saint Etienne
Film How We Used To Live artfully weaves together archive footage of Britain from 1950-80. Pete Wiggs explains how he composed the music to accompany an entire era (with a little help from Lovejoy)Guest Column - Anti-social media and the politics of me by Hozier
The singer-songwriter argues despite the rise of Facebook, Twitter et al, we're less connected - and crucially - less engaged than everFive Songs To Hear This Week - Devin Townsend, Hawk Eyes, Dan Deacon, Allyson Ezell, Phantom
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (15 Dec)Guest Column - What Ever Happened? The View on working with The Strokes Albert Hammond Jr
The guitarist is producing the Scottish bands new album, due out next year. Kyle Falconer explains how a meeting in the pub made it happenGuest Column - Catapults and a whittlin' wonderland by Archie Bronson Outfit
Mark "Arp" Cleveland explains why along with releasing new single Two Doves On A Lake this week (8 Dec), he's "sculpting hand held death machines..."Guest Column - "I wish it could be 1965 again"
James Endeacott, the Libertines' original A&R man explains why it is the best - and some times worst - thing to run a record label... and why he's relaunching his own 1965 RecordsGuest Column - What have producers ever done for us (and our music)?
With the engineer and producer Al O’Connell offering free studio time in London next year with Converse, the Paul Epworth collaborator lifts the lid on the knob-twiddler's artFive Songs To Hear This Week - Butch Walker, Croox, Jape, JoelPeter, All We Are
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (8 Dec)Five Songs To Hear This Week - Turbowolf, Alright The Captain, Jennie Abrahamson, Red House Glory, Vessels
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (1 Dec)Guest Column - No Thankless Task: Why I love Britain's indie venues by Frank Turner
The singer-songwriter explains why he's serving as ambassidor for Venues Day (9 Dec) and Independent Venue Week (26 Jan- 2 Feb)Column – Would you book this Canadian band?
Q’s Paul Stokes joins the festival bosses at last week's (19-22 Nov) M For Montreal showcase event to see if he could spot next summer's stars-in-the-makingGuest Column - The Grownups Guide To Boredom Alleviation by Liam Hayes
Here are a few ideas to keep you stimulated before the Plush man releases new album Slurrup in JanuaryFive Songs To Hear This Week - Man Made, Bosco Rogers, Meltybrains?, Carmine Rose, Breton
Jamie Skey presents some essential listening for the week ahead (24 Nov)
