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Nick Cave, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Grinderman: Nick Cave: King of Pain

Profile and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, MOJO, March 2009

"TEA? PIECE OF CAKE?" says Nick Cave civilly. After an earlier on-tour interview at the Malmaison Hotel, Manchester, he's invited MOJO to his office, a ...

Ladyhawke: Lady's night

Profile and Interview by John Lewis, Hotline, May 2009

Synth-pop queen Ladyhawke, aka New Zealander Pip Brown, talks to John Lewis from the back seat of a New York taxi. ...

Ornette Coleman: Mister Anything Goes

Profile and Interview by John Lewis, The Guardian, 10 June 2009

He's taken jazz where it has never gone before — playing with pipers, punks and divas. As Ornette Coleman arrives in Britain, Patti Smith, Moby ...

La Roux: 'Of course Lady Gaga's not my thing'

Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 24 September 2009

IT IS MORNING, and 21-year-old Elly Jackson – or La Roux, arguably the biggest new pop star of the year – is on the Eurostar ...

Beach House: Shore thing for easy listening

Profile and Interview by Tim Cooper, The Independent, 15 January 2010

Baltimore's dream-pop duo Beach House are confounding classification to gain plaudits from Fleet Foxes, Grizzly Bear and the Strokes. Tim Cooper gets to grips with ...

Delphic: Why Delphic are music's Next Big Thing

Profile and Interview by Pete Paphides, The Times, 15 January 2010

Green tea, genre-defying dance music and the band who have re-invented the Manchester sound for a whole new generation ...

Jeff Beck: Solo Voyager

Profile and Interview by Andrew Smith, Sunday Times, 7 February 2010

The guitarist has left many famous bandmates to pursue adventures in jazz and electro, but now rejoins with Eric Clapton. ...

Ron Sexsmith: Long Player: In Praise of Ron Sexsmith

Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, February 2011

"We have had a gutful of fast art and fast food. What we need more of is slow art: art that holds time as a ...

Kenny Gamble: "Philadelphia was the party with a tormented soul"

Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 3 March 2011

Philly Soul's sweet sound hid masked warnings about growing chasms in 1970s American society ...

Justin Townes Earle: Ripped Genes

Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, The Word, August 2011

Steve Earle is your dad. You're sent to a boot camp for teenage delinquents. But watch what happened next for Justin Townes Earle... ...

Greil Marcus: A Life In Writing

Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 17 February 2012

GREIL MARCUS lives in a newly built, cedar-shingled house on the border between Oakland and Berkeley. ...

Brian Eno: "How can Alastair Campbell have a TV career?"

Profile and Interview by Kate Mossman, New Statesman, 16 May 2013

THE TOILETS OF the famous are centres of great significance. Liz Taylor was so used to guests snooping in hers, she filled the bathroom cabinet ...

Daft Punk: The Midas Touch

Profile and Interview by Dorian Lynskey, The Guardian, 19 May 2013

IT IS A PECULIAR experience meeting the most famous faceless musicians in the world. Daft Punk are certainly well known. Eight years after their last ...

Ron Sexsmith: A spoonful of sugar

Profile and Interview by David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, September 2013

Canadian singer-songwriter Ron Sexsmith's true-life confessions are easy to swallow, says David Burke. So why isn't he more widely prescribed? ...

Prefab Sprout: Paddy McAloon: "I'll do without an audience to make the music I want"

Profile and Interview by Paul Lester, The Guardian, 5 September 2013

Prefab Sprout sold millions of records in the '80s, but singer Paddy McAloon always made music for himself rather than the masses. Now he's back ...

Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats: "I'm terrified of loneliness and poverty. I'm never going back": Bob Geldof on Live Aid, losing Paula and what he really thinks of Bono

Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 31 August 2014

He's 'OK, wedge-wise'. But this summer the bolshiest man in pop was back on the road with the cash-strapped Boomtown Rats. Event was with him ...

Vivien Goldman: Do Everything Yourself: The Lessons Of Punk Renaissance Woman Vivien Goldman

Profile and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Record, The (NPR), 21 July 2016

ON JUNE 29, 64 years after the day she was born in London to Jewish parents who had fled Nazi Germany, Vivien Goldman was back ...

Brian Eno: "When he sang, David Bowie became a different person"

Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Daily Telegraph, 23 July 2016

BRIAN ENO is Britain's favourite cultural polymath. He contributed a chime for a clock that will ring once every 10,000 years. He wrote a soundtrack ...

Loyle Carner: I believe in yesterday

Profile and Interview by Lisa Verrico, The Sunday Times, 26 February 2017

Losing his stepdad made him the rapper he is today. ...

Mike + the Mechanics: Engineering a New Future

Profile and Interview by David Burke, Classic Pop, April 2017

It may have begun as a side project away from Genesis while Phil Collins tried to sort out his marital difficulties, but Mike + the ...