Features
In-depth interviews and features
Days out – Bestival If you’re Isle of Wight-bound this weekend, here’s what to look our for at the world’s biggest fancy dress parade.
Film Club #2: Videos in black and white The second in our surveys of contemporary music videos, this time – spurred on by Martyn and Antony – referencing the fantastic world of black and white videos.
What have The xx ever done for us? Notes on the most important British band of our times.
Everywhere else #8 Required reading from the rest of the net, featuring Big Boi, Darkstar, Terror Danjah, Peter Saville’s England strip, DJ Rashad and DJ Spinn…
Field Day podcast The first in our series of festival podcasts kicks off with a set of interviews from No Age, Phoenix Tensnake, the Golden Filter, Memory tapes and Mount Kimbie and sounds from Victoria Park.
Ratatat interview: "It worked out for the best." Machine music’s journeymen chat to Dummy a short while after their last album, ‘LP4’, came out.
Everywhere else #7 New links for a new week.
Sleigh Bells interview: "Start at your feet, end at your brains." On their debut album’s release day, Derek Miller and Alexis Krauss talk song-craft, space, and why simple is best.
