The road to The Specials' first number one was long but they blazed a trail in finally getting Too Much Too Young to the top ...

Having been on our list of dream Baker’s Dozens for some time, we were thrilled when Shackleton agreed to pen one for us ...

Coil's first album proper is an alchemist's mix of synth pop, industrial, avant garde, rage, humour and transgression ...

The latest work by Irish composer/sound artist Gerard Gormley under the moniker of Being Strangers is an acoustic exploration ...

It’s 1999, and a school IT lesson deep in the south east London suburbs. Our teacher asked who had a “home PC,” and everyone ...

In the third edition of his column exploring the new wave of boundary-pushing folk and traditional music, Patrick Clarke delves into music's role in our intimate relationship with place, and rounds up ...

Different images of domestic interiority are explored at two London group shows: Room at Sadie Coles HQ and House Work at Victoria Miro ...

Between sunken chants and electronic rhythms, the Parisian duo crack open the future with a blunt industrial wedge ...

Paul Heaton ex of the Housemartins and Beautiful South guides Adrian Lobb through 13 favourite albums - there's a lot of soul in there, but which ones did he nick? Paul Heaton ex of the Housemartins ...

12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev ...

The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth ...

Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early ...