Wet Leg, Fontaines DC … Kylie? The weird world of post-punk superproducer Dan Carey | Music

Dan Carey with Natasha Khan (AKA Bat for Lashes) working on their side project Sexwitch in 2015 in Carey’s studio.

Dan Carey’s studio is notoriously hectic at the best of times, but today takes the biscuit. The air is thick with hangovers, the tabletops strewn with empty champagne bottles and Carey’s head has been freshly […]

Post-punk legend Kate Fagan on her hipster-baiting classic: ‘Studio 54 was about cocaine glamour’ | Music

Kate Fagan.

When a record label contacted her wanting to reissue her 35-year-old debut single, Kate Fagan thought it was a prank call. She had released the track, I Don’t Wanna Be Too Cool, on her friends’ […]

End of the Road review – post-punk, cosmic jazz and weirdo pop offer a genuine alternative | End of the Road festival

Miles Romans-Hopcraft of Wu-Lu performing at End of the Road.

All festivals have a USP: Reading, for instance, is an assault course marking the end of childhood; Boomtown is a purpose-built warehouse party in the English countryside for those too scared to visit an actual […]