For Richard Kirk,” says Stephen Mallinder, as his first words of the evening on stage. A mighty roar erupts inside the former ...

Blast away Autumnal blues with "wicked sick stick-thin machinified aquatic death rock", some Iranian diaspora HC & Eva ...

The duo of Koshiro Hino and Yuki Nakagawa team up with Polish percussionist Adam Gołębiewski for an album composed and ...

The Hammersmith-born singer-songwriter phone hacks herself, resulting in an album of unvarnished rawness with more in common ...

Aug Stone talks to the Dolly Mixture singer/bassist about her new book, Teenage Daydream, chronicling the band’s brushes with ...

At the Portuguese city's annual festival of "singular music", sets by Tashi Dorji, Erik Dæhlin, Masma Dream World and more ...

A dank night in London’s Docklands. After clocking off a shift at a nearby magazine, I’d ducked into dinky and wood-pannelled ...

Iranian pop music from the 70s is known for its sophistication. With lyrics rich in layers and metaphors, experiments in ...

Hedonism can be tricky in art – such big expression can come off as cheesy or try-hard, especially outside of the hypergloss ...

Dave Ball, who as one half of Soft Cell made iconic synth-pop hits like ‘Tainted Love’ and ‘Bedsitter’, has died at the age ...

Würzburg native Christian Schoppik takes the listener to some dark and disturbing places, shivering with static and sampled ...

In a moving tribute to his late Soft Cell bandmate Dave Ball, who died this week at the age of 66, Marc Almond remarked that ...