Few rock bands survive to be 40 years old. Shonen Knife's achievement is all the more remarkable since there haven't been many all-female rock bands from Japan that have converted their fascination with junk food, beautiful animals, and the Ramones into a global career. Let's Knife, released in the UK by Creation Records immediately after […]

Every day, we have so many options to make, and we're continuously improvising them, much like in jazz," explains Makaya McCraven, a drummer and composer. "Even when we try to order and sanitize the world so that we can function, we're improvising in various frameworks." It's all a way of expressing existence." McCraven, 38, is […]

It's a Friday night at Black Heart, a rock and metal pub nestled away on a Camden side street in north London. The walls and ceiling are painted black, the beer taps are adorned with antlers, and Metallica's Enter Sandman is screaming from the speakers. As soon as the chorus begins, the whole pub bursts […]

The "rock star" is essentially extinct. With the TV-out-the-window lifestyle that dominated pop culture between the 1970s and 2000s out of favor, the term – and all the recklessness and charisma it implies – is more likely to be ascribed to a chef or a tech-bro than a musician. However, some people still suit the […]

Oli Sykes yells, "I haven't seen a mosh pit in 18 fucking months, so you better make it good." Bring Me the Horizon's latest UK stadium tour has begun, and the band's vocalist seems to be overjoyed to be back in the heart of things. The Sheffield quintet's concert in Hull tonight, the first of […]

To be honest, it was a bit of a "pinch me" moment. I sat in the Typical Girls practice room earlier this month, seeing our amazing company perform the Slits' songs to Tessa Pollitt, a founding member of the band. Never in my wildest thoughts could I have dreamed we would reach to this stage […]