It doesn’t so much begin as swoop into land: thirty seconds of silence followed by the gathering swell of sputtering static and a sighing, weary chorus of what might be low- flying aircraft. At around the fifteenth minute, new sounds cut through the haze: a thin, whining synth tone, a muddy kick…

Joe Muggs goes deep with the seminal Warp Records duo. When people talk about Autechre, there are generally two camps. For the casually interested, they're the '90s electronica act who most conspicuously went weird. After two albums of pretty post-rave listening music, they became the epitome of…

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Four years ago, she was a global superstar. Then a contract dispute — and her rape claim against her producer — sent her career into the wilderness. The Exile Kesha. Jack Davison for The New York Times. Styling by Shelby Scudder. Hair and makeup by Vittorio Masecchia. Manicure by Miho Okawara. K…

Twenty years after its release, My Bloody Valentine’s second album, Loveless , is regarded as something of a masterpiece, yet at the time the story of its production threatened to overshadow the music. Contrary to its title, the album was a labour of love for guitarist, writer and singer, Kevin…

When the chance came to interview Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine, my hand shot up. The shadow of Kevin Shields looms large over my record collection, and the fanboy in me couldn't resist the idea of talking to a guy for whom I have so much respect. But after I got the nod, I wondered if I'd…

Joe Muggs goes deep with the seminal Warp Records duo. When people talk about Autechre, there are generally two camps. For the casually interested, they're the '90s electronica act who most conspicuously went weird. After two albums of pretty post-rave listening music, they became the epitome of…

It was sometime around 1997 or 1998 when author and rock journalist Michael Azerrad was sitting at home watching a generic multi-part history on rock ’n’ roll. It was late in the evening, and the episode he caught detailed the history of punk rock—or was supposed to. But something was wrong. “It…

Soldiers, tequila and asti-spumanti slammers, ecstasy, guns, LSD, brandy and waitresses. The good, good, good, good, good, good, double-good recording of Bummed by the Happy Mondays as dimly remembered by Shaun Ryder, Bez and others and told to Daniel Dylan Wray Of the four albums the Happy Mondays…

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The Idea in Brief A robot falls in love in a post-apocalyptic world. A French rat sets out to become a chef. A suburban family of superheroes defeats a power-hungry villain. Unexpected ideas, all—yet Pixar Animation Studios is turning these and other novel ideas into blockbuster films. How? As…

Component is a section of Aux.Out. for one-off pieces, special editorials, and lost orphans of the music discussion. Today, Gary Suarez speaks with Justin Broadrick about the rise and fall of Godflesh, the influential metal band that begot Jesu and, eventually, reunited. ~ Justin Broadrick couldn’t…