Gavin Brown caught up with Barrett Martin from Screaming Trees to talk about his new book The Greatest Band That Ever Wasn’t, what it was like being in the Screaming Trees, his new live shows with Duke Garwood that are hitting the UK and more.

Lancashire-born but now Montréal-based musician, Tim Crabtree (aka Paper Beat Scissors) has re-shaped his tender and beautifully orchestrated 2019 indie-folk album, Parallel Line into Spanish, re-working a selection of the songs onto an EP entitled La …

The power of live music can be one that is both communal and personal, sometimes at the same time. It is the breathing force of music and its tendrils reach way back before the existence of recorded sound. It is something to be cherished. . .

In the second of our occasional series looking back rather than forwards, Martyn Coppack reassess the impact of one of REM’s finest moments. Although the remit of Echoes of the Past may be a chance to bring to the attention albums which may have escape …