Categories
Interviews

Peter Hook Interview: “I’ve managed to take Joy Division all round the world”

I’m desperate to do a book that has a happy ending and I’m hoping that I don’t have to resort to fiction. So I’ll keep my fingers crossed.

Categories
Interviews

Stephen Morris interview: “We didn’t want to be Joy Division anymore, but we didn’t know anything else”

With New Order drum maestro Stephen Morris’ autobiography now published, Banjo catches up with the post punk legend.

Categories
13 Questions

13 Questions with Dave Haslam

What band or record changed to course of your life?
“Joy Division is really the only answer I can give”

Categories
Features

Eric’s – a personal journey through Liverpool’s original punk club

At the tender age of 16 and in one single afternoon, we had been to a punk club, seen Joy Division and got an autograph from a Sex Pistol. How could we not fall in love with this wonderful place?!

Categories
Singles

Track Premiere: Bobhowla’s ‘Tainted’

Exclusive to Sun 13, be the first to listen to the band’s latest single.

Categories
Album Reviews

Crime of Passing: Crime of Passing

The Cincinnati underground outfit release their debut LP.

Categories
Features Interviews

Pound Land Interview: “We both like our music to be unsettling”

We talk to Adam Stone about the duo’s new LP.

Categories
Live News

Liverpool Gig Listing

Gigs are back! Check out our roundup of gigs taking place in Liverpool

Categories
Features

Come As You Are: Going Shopping with Nirvana

Stephen Potter remembers clothes swapping and Christmas shopping with Nirvana.

Categories
Features Interviews

New Noise: In Conversation with Prison Behaviour’s Mark Greenwood

We sit down with the Liverpool-based experimentalist and talk about his latest album, ‘Secret Circus’.

Categories
Album Reviews

Antietam: His Majesty’s Request: A Wink O’Bannon Select – “a fitting tribute”

The New York trio are joined by an all-star cast in honour of Louisville musician and ex-Eleventh Dream Day guitarist, Wink O’Bannon.

Categories
Features Interviews

Sunstack Jones and Mai 68 bring back the flexi disc

“All the feedback we’ve had from the record has been great, it’s just that we could do with millions more people hearing it”

Categories
Interviews

Kirk Brandon interview: “You can’t just be a retro act.”

“I don’t really know where we are now, but I know it’s not a good place.”

Categories
Features Interviews

Russell Webb Interview: “I’m a huge believer that miracles happen all the time”

We talk to the man who underpinned The Skids, The Armoury Show and PiL

Categories
13 Questions

13 Questions with Guardian Singles

On the back of their debut album, the New Zealand collective answer our ever important 13 questions.

Categories
Albums Features

The Greatest Gift: Best EPs Ever Made

“An EP can be an instant snapshot of a band whereas an album is often more of a considered far-reaching statement.”

Categories
Album Reviews

Qlowski: Quale Futuro? – “searing new found urgency”

The London-based punk collective impress with their debut.

Categories
Features Interviews

Bobhowla Interview: “I’ve always experimented with throwing imagery into songwriting”

With their debut album, “Everything’s Wrong, But It’s Alright” fresh from the pressing plant, we sit down with Bobhowla’s Howard Doupe.

Categories
13 Questions

Meet the Team: 13 Questions with Banjo

That’s what music does, it changes you. It influences what you do, who you see and who you are.

Categories
Lost Albums

Love Tractor: Love Tractor – “post-punk jangle-pop grooves”

One of Athens, Georgia’s lost albums gets reissued and we see how it has fared over time.

Categories
Film

David Byrne’s American Utopia – “there’s never a dull moment”

With the help of Spike Lee, David Byrne takes his era-defining live show to Broadway.

Categories
13 Questions

13 Questions with The Room in the Wood

When did you last get into an argument?
“It might be easier to ask ‘when didn’t I?’ Something I should probably curb”

Categories
Features

Syd Barrett – Remember When You Were Young, You Shone Like the Sun

Sometimes, Barrett was simply not able to function as a live musician, to the extent of being unable to even hold a plectrum.

Categories
Interviews

Dave Haslam Interview: “There is a redemptive power in music”

“We’re not a religious people really, but that doesn’t stop us being spiritual or wanting to enjoy and be overwhelmed by communal experience”

Categories
Features

“The tyranny of collecting” – why I gave away my entire record collection

I still listen to as much music as I ever have. And that, when all is said and done, is what’s important. It’s not the collecting, cataloging or storing, it is the listening that is the most crucial part of being a music fan.

Categories
Interviews

Babybird’s Stephen Jones interview: “I am trying to look for the meaning of life but you’re never going to find it”

Once you’ve had a gold album and this massive peak, there was nowhere else to go really. I was never interested in keeping that going, I didn’t like that period of time. It was nice for a while but you can only fall down the other side of the hill

Categories
Features

Scott Walker’s Fire Escape in the Sky: “A voice that could inhabit a room.”

ire Escape In The Sky: The Godlike Genius Of Scott Walker was our coal fire. Our central heating. Our hot bath. We immersed ourselves in its otherworldly beauty every single night.

Categories
Albums

The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet 50 years on: the first injection of cool

The Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet turned 50 years old in 2018 and we celebrated a cataclysmic moment in rock and roll as we know it.

Categories
Features

Iggy Pop at Liverpool Eric’s: Shock was part of the currency of the early punks and, in Iggy, they had inspiration of sorts

It was a genuine anyone-who-was-anyone-was -there-where-were-you-sucker type of gigs, one of those incredible moments that, even as you were watching it you knew it was never going to truly leave you.

Categories
Interviews

Wayne Hussey Interview: ” still get a big kick out of making records and writing songs. When it kicks into place there’s nothing quite like it”

I think with us, my boredom threshold is very low, so I like to make records that challenge me as well as challenge the audience

Categories
13 Questions

13 Questions with The Double Happiness

Following their excellent new LP, ‘Roadhouse’ the Brisbane band take part in our 13 Questions.

Categories
Album Reviews

Prison Behaviour: Snake Fever EP – “soundscapes to accompany your worst nightmares”

Mark Greenwood shares his latest work as Prison Behaviour.