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 ...

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

The Cult will tour the UK next year and have released new material earlier this month. Our man John Robb spoke to singer Ian Astbury about the history of The Cult ...

When Einstürzende Neubauten formed in West Berlin 44 years ago, few would have predicted the speed-fuelled, metal-bashing industrial pioneers would be easing into their fifth decade by releasing their ...

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The centrepiece of Wong Kar-wai's melancholy drama Happy Together is a raw depiction of gay romance, but it speaks to the filmmaker's wider fascination with Hong Kong migrant cinema, finds Ian Wang ...