Joe Muggs

Darkstar on making music with a youth centre in Liverpool

Features I 01.02.18

Darkstar on making music with a youth centre in Liverpool

How the caustic, fucked-up noise of Aphex Twin turned my teenage world inside out

Features I 14.04.17

How the caustic, fucked-up noise of Aphex Twin turned my teenage world inside out

Pioneering DJ David Mancuso gave club culture a multi-racial, polysexual makeover

Features I 15.11.16

Pioneering DJ David Mancuso gave club culture a multi-racial, polysexual makeover

Inside the Secret Facility: A conversation with Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh

Features I 18.02.16

Inside the Secret Facility: A conversation with Andrew Weatherall and Nina Walsh

Skream’s Rinse: 02: How a mix CD became dubstep’s defining album

Features I 18.11.15

Skream’s Rinse: 02: How a mix CD became dubstep’s defining album

Between two worlds: Where classical and club music meet

Features I 05.11.15

Between two worlds: Where classical and club music meet

Golden in Time: The unremitting genius of Joni Mitchell

Features I 23.10.15

Golden in Time: The unremitting genius of Joni Mitchell

Saluting Grace Jones: The best to ever do it

Features I 28.09.15

Saluting Grace Jones: The best to ever do it

Colin Faver rarely made the headlines, but supported dance music culture to the end

Features I 08.09.15

Colin Faver rarely made the headlines, but supported dance music culture to the end

“It’s hard to care about kids at their computer clicking links”: An audience with Derrick Carter

I 11.08.15

“It’s hard to care about kids at their computer clicking links”: An audience with Derrick Carter

“I had to resort to extreme violence”: how Hipgnosis revolutionised the album sleeve

Features I 17.12.14

“I had to resort to extreme violence”: how Hipgnosis revolutionised the album sleeve

The Perennial Outsider: Electronic veteran Cristian Vogel looks back on a life less ordinary

Features, Interviews I 21.11.14

The Perennial Outsider: Electronic veteran Cristian Vogel looks back on a life less ordinary

The 100 best tracks of the decade so far

Features, Lists I 13.11.14

The 100 best tracks of the decade so far

The 100 best albums of the decade so far

Features, Lists I 03.11.14

The 100 best albums of the decade so far

100 underrated DJs who deserve more shine

Features, Lists I 26.10.14

100 underrated DJs who deserve more shine

Stoned bears, 4D Sound and EDM bellends: Joe Muggs does ADE

Features, Opinion I 23.10.14

Stoned bears, 4D Sound and EDM bellends: Joe Muggs does ADE

Love is the Message: remembering electronic pioneer Mark Bell

Features, Opinion I 14.10.14

Love is the Message: remembering electronic pioneer Mark Bell

Return to the chill-out room: when did ambient music last have it so good?

Features, Opinion I 09.10.14

Return to the chill-out room: when did ambient music last have it so good?

Andrew Weatherall’s 30 greatest remixes

Features, Lists I 27.09.14

Andrew Weatherall’s 30 greatest remixes

“Didn’t Hawtin and Villalobos WANT to be featured?”: Filmmaker Amélie Ravalec on total immersion in real-deal techno

Features, Interviews I 12.09.14

“Didn’t Hawtin and Villalobos WANT to be featured?”: Filmmaker Amélie Ravalec on total immersion in real-deal techno

The A-Z of Rave

News I 05.09.14

The A-Z of Rave

“Well done the Aphex Twin”: first thoughts on Syro

Features, Opinion I 05.09.14

“Well done the Aphex Twin”: first thoughts on Syro

“Geordie Shore this ain’t”: Introducing makina, the north-east scene keeping the hardcore flame burning

News I 04.09.14

“Geordie Shore this ain’t”: Introducing makina, the north-east scene keeping the hardcore flame burning

“All you need is a basement, a flashing light, and some good pills”: Terry Farley on the history of house

News I 03.09.14

“All you need is a basement, a flashing light, and some good pills”: Terry Farley on the history of house

“Prog-house should be dumped over a bridge never to return”: Jerome Hill is keeping rave alive in 2014

Features, Interviews I 02.09.14

“Prog-house should be dumped over a bridge never to return”: Jerome Hill is keeping rave alive in 2014

Joe Muggs is a Rubbish Raver

Features, Opinion I 01.09.14

Joe Muggs is a Rubbish Raver

Uziah “Sticky” Thompson: the man who shaped modern music without you even knowing it

Features, Lists I 29.08.14

Uziah “Sticky” Thompson: the man who shaped modern music without you even knowing it

Underground legend Noodles on UK garage, acid house and the benefits of dog-loaning

Features, Interviews I 18.08.14

Underground legend Noodles on UK garage, acid house and the benefits of dog-loaning

Dunked in the Funk: George Clinton’s biographer talks P-Funk, anarchy and smouldering sex-beasts

Features, Interviews I 31.07.14

Dunked in the Funk: George Clinton’s biographer talks P-Funk, anarchy and smouldering sex-beasts

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