Joseph Viney samples the broad church of psych at Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, and wonders whether expansion and relocation should be on the cards… With 2015 being its fourth year of existence, and...
Music entrepreneur and Liverpool International Music Festival curator Yaw Owusu talks to Toby Hood about being the new kid on the block, linking Liverpool to South Africa, and his love for everything from Tupac and...
Alex Harrington enjoys Marnie, Univers and more at the first leg of this year’s LIV-BCN summer festival… A ship sliding along the horizon towards Barcelona and a ship on the Mersey heading for...
Violence, death and dogged determination: Laura Robertson charts the meteoric rise and fall (and rise again) of three industry pioneers at this year’s Sound City conference… A welcome addition to Friday’s conference line-up saw an...
Worth shouting about: Joshua Potts finds a distinct lack of scepticism and a great deal of energy and invention at this year’s Merseyside music award… Many things stand out from Saturday’s gathering of...
With jazz infiltrating and influencing contemporary genres — everything from psychedelia to electronica — what better moment to celebrate its diversity, says Christopher Brown… There was an almost depressing number of shrugged shoulders when the Mercury Music...
A fashionista, a breakdancer… and an internationally acclaimed pianist and composer? Jennifer Tsai meets a young musician trying to work out who he is whilst soaring the heights of fame… On a cold...
What do 180 Dansette record players have to say about future forms of music and art? Alastair Dunn on a surreal composition that, 21 years on, still has something progressive to say about the spirit of creativity… The...
How do electronic musicians navigate the tricky sphere of live performance? David Tate talks exclusively to artist Kepla about ‘boring’ laptop shows, utilising technology, and winning over sceptical audiences… In spite of its growing ubiquity, there still remains...