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EXCEPTER Debt Dept. Jesus, they should have called this one Pantshitter. Maybe it's got something to do with my listening to the album after driving all night through rural Pennsylvania

Tickley Feather is the nom de plume of a 29-year-old woman named Annie Sachs. She lives with her four-year-old son, Aiden, out in West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. When she has some time off from doing motherly stuff, she writes and sings these...

Visiting a brothel in Slough was never high on my list of things to do.

People still try to make out that grime is based in three highrise blocks in Bow, when in reality other parts of London, particularly north, are home to a lot of the more productive MCs such as Chipmunk, Skepta, JME, Scorcher etc. The same goes for...

Photos by Annabel Mehran, Styling by Jaclyn Hodes

FIGHT (EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ASS-KICKING BUT WERE AFRAID YOU’D GET YOUR ASS KICKED FOR ASKING) How did Eugene get this shit put out by HarperCollins? We’ve been

Ryan McPhun is an American living in New Zealand. He moved there five years ago and as you can imagine, his accent is a bit strange. Along with native kiwis Amee Robinson and Imogen Taylor, Ryan is in a band called the Ruby Suns. They've just released...

Psychedelic Horseshit coined the turn "shitgaze", formed on a whim at a party and made up their name on the spot because it was the first thing that sprang to mind. From Columbus, Ohio, theirs is an unrefined, unpredictable and chaotic mess of sound...

UK urban music is in the best state it's been in for a decade. Ten-year-old girls are throwing their Bratz dolls out the window and breakdancing in their wheelie shoes when a bassline tune comes on daytime radio.

Most countries outside the English-speaking world have some sort of "father of rock" figure. Cui Jian is China's, but unlike the Johnny Hallydays and Tarkans of elsewhere, he's not just another shlubby Elvis clone or closeted Europop singer. His songs...

The internet has made everything too easy. Remember when you used to have to send a cheque off to some PO Box just to get hold of a zine and in the back of it you'd see a list of records by a bunch of bands you knew nothing about? You'd have to sort of...

Photos by Stacey Mark, Styling by Jaclyn Hodes