There is something genuinely awe-inspiring about Swans’s ability to completely transform a space through sound

Dekmantel and Warsteiner have a new project

Fancy a good night out in Manchester? Olly Mitchell is here to help

As one of the world’s great music cities, Manchester is packed with great venues. Here’s some of our favourites…

Lowell Clarke talks Sampling

These tracks are about the transformation from identifying your dreams to being at the point where they become realised

Dekmantel / 1st-3rd August / Amsterdam

We chat with the Techno legend Carl Cox in anticipation for his set on the Sunday of Parklife Festival.

Guide to festivals in the second half of Summer

2 labels, 4 headliners

There are no words strong or grotesque enough to describe the jaded horror of this monstrous album

Lo-Fi pull in the big guns

Happiness Is sounds somewhat like a homecoming

A night of rousing funk and mind-bending techno

The teaming up of Selective Hearing and Hi Ku was highly successful

We picked the brains of the Internets busiest music nerd Anthony Fantano on the state of guitar music, why AM sucked and Cal Chuchesta’s Christmas movie.

Two good sets are compromised by a lack of atmosphere

The experience they have in throwing parties was telling and all aspects of the festival from production to pricing were first-rate

Steve Aoki hits Victoria Warehouse on the 5th April.

The real beauty lies in how effortless the whole thing sounds