The nu-rave poster boys are splitting up. Well, probably. In a pair of tweets posted today, the Klaxons announced that “after what’s been nearly nine bananas years we’d like to let you know ...

“Scratching is more like a transformation sequence, more like the audio parallel of The Thing or American Werewolf, where you see the human transformed into a werewolf, and just before they ...

In his years as a fixture on the Berlin underground, Manchester polymath Mark Reeder brought Joy Division to the city, managed and produced countless punk bands, rented his spare room to Nick Cave ...

Detroit electro royalty DJ Stingray 313 re-launches his label, Micron Audio, with a collaboration with Iranian-Canadian visual artist Bahar Noorizadeh. ‘Bioplastics’ heralds the return of ...

When rumours began circulating of Mark Lawrence’s time on Castro’s hermit kingdom, you couldn’t help but romanticise. Was this to be a story album, a travelogue – The Bass Diaries, if you ...

The language of the earth is widely used to describe sounds. Words like “dirty”, “gritty” and “grimy” are go-to terms when getting across the character of waveforms and distortion ...

It’s well-documented that getting your music out there, in 2013, is easier than ever. Whether it’s starting a vinyl label, building the foundations of a one-man Bandcamp empire or indulging ...

Sadly, it looks as though Morrissey’s debut novel is a stinker. Early reviews of List of the Lost have not been kind, with the Guardian’s Michael Hann calling the book – which is about a ...

The Edit wants to help you build the ultimate record collection. Introducing the latest vinyl-related service to try and enable your record addiction. Sign up and they’ll send you a text message ...

Not that Kim Dotcom ever really went away – despite Megaupload, the filesharing site that he launched, being shut down at the start of this year, he’s kept busy by recording music and teasing ...