At five seven, with red hair and a surface area that’s now more tattoo than skin, Frank Carter you’d say makes for an unlikely ally of those advocating for issues related to gender flui…

There’s a lot wrong with social media, which probably makes the good news stories all the more heartwarming. In the midst of the UK’s first national lockdown, with the touring circuit c…

Released : 1974 Compared once in an interview to Bob Dylan, Gil Scott-Heron could only bristle, retorting to the suggestion that Dylan’s militancy paved the way for the anti-establishment moo…

As much as we have romantic notions about the life of a musician, the reality 99 times out of 100 is very, very much less glamorous than most of them. When Olive Rees and Jake Cottier formed Nightbus for instance they had no idea how all consuming their choice of career would end up; it's a destructive personal curve that inspires Landslide, one of the more effective tracks on their debut album…

ALT: a woman says i just threw up in my mouth a little bit in a black and white photo

Shaun Remmer, 49, says he has been left 'devastated'

Released: 2002 Sometimes – rarely – there’s just too much back story to put into a few hundred words. In the case of Rammstein, the German sextet have found themselves becoming so…

“On their mettle, Hung and Power are Jackson Pollock in producer form, grappling with the abstract and going where the narcotics take them.”

Released: 1967 The sixties might’ve seen a British invasion and an American reprisal like some sort of tit-for-tat musical boxing match, but if there was one place on which everyone’s e…

ALT: a person is standing on top of a mountain looking at the landscape .

Released: 2017 If the job of a music writer is to describe how something sounds, how to perch over Archy Marshall’s songs? The easy handles – alt.jazz, trip-rap, agit-folk – all f…