Music

Sean Hannam caught up with slap-bass legend, ceaseless touring musician and Level 42 frontman Mark King, as he celebrated the anniversary of the band’s influential 1985 hit album, World Machine.

• Sean Hannam

Nottingham-based quartet Divorce appeared in 2021 and Drive to Goldenhammer is their first album after their wry Heady Metal EP. Shaun Marin checks out this distinctly peculiar British indie newcomer.

• Shaun Marin

Roxy Music guitar legend, record producer and musical collaborator, Phil Manzanera, marked his 50-year solo career last year with an extensive new CD box set. Sean Hannam asks the questions.

• Sean Hannam

Always close to ‘retro-soul’ with the Monophonics, Sean Hannam thinks Kelly Finnigan has delved even deeper into the Northern Soul pool for his first solo outing: A Lover Was Born.

• Sean Hannam

Michael Vámos thinks Wild God, the long-awaited 18th studio album from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, is filled with soundscapes evoking a sense of hope in a fallen world.

• Michael Vámos

Singer-songwriter, actress, ‘close friend’ and muse of David Bowie... Dana Gillespie is back with a new album. With 60 years of performing under her belt, Sean Hannam interviews a legend.

• Sean Hannam

Paul Weller turned 66 last year. Rather than rest on his laurels, he went back into the studio to make his finest album in decades. Sean Hannam takes a listen.

• Sean Hannam

Sean Hannam speaks to the remarkably multi-talented singer-songwriter, guitarist and instrumentalist and one of the greatest chroniclers of life in Sheffield, England, expressed through the medium of Rockabilly… Richard Hawley.

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Guitarist Mark Ribot has played with some of the best in the business, but his work with the Ceramic Dog trio takes jazz to new places, according to Shaun Marin

• Shaun Marin

Vince Clarke is an electronic music royalty with a career spanning over 40 years, including being a founding member of Depeche Mode, Yazoo and Erasure. Interviewer Sean Hannam is star-struck!

• Sean Hannam

British singer-songwriter and keen record collector Matt Deighton talks to Sean Hannam about his latest album, working with legendary producer Ken Scott, and even listening to Pink Floyd in mono.

• Sean Hannam

If you are expecting the raucous, fast-paced post-punk of early Arctic Monkeys records, you are in for a shock with the sentimental lounge-core of The Car, according to Michael Vámos.

• Michael Vámos

Howard Jones is celebrating 40 years in the music business with a four-CD collection of his finest music. Sean Hannam talks to the ‘80s pop star and pioneering electronica artist.

• Sean Hannam

One half of 1990s pop superheroes Carter USM, Jim Bob’s back with a new solo album. Sean Hannam caught up with him just after the coronation of King Charles III.

• Sean Hannam

English bassist Jah Wobble has been making music inspired by influences from all over the globe for almost half a century. Sean Hannam met him, to discuss his four-CD compilation.

• Sean Hannam

Legendary new wave frontman Midge Ure returns with a six-disc reworking of Ultravox’s third, George Martin-produced album, Quartet. Sean Hannam spoke to the Scottish singer during his recent UK tour.

• Sean Hannam

Imagine the scenario: you’re in your early 20s and you’re […]

• Shaun Marin

Darlings of the Reading music scene, this up-and-coming four-piece British band have a big sound and even bigger ambitions. Sean Hannam speaks to Third Lung, and their producer, Michael Smith.

• Sean Hannam