Follow Natasha Khan, the artist known as Bat for Lashes, across a series of revealing interviews in New York and Britain as the cult artist hits the mainstream with her album Two Suns and a Mercury nomination ... Natasha Khan does not feel herself. She is standing in the living room of a cramped Brooklyn apartment on a frosty January morning. If first impressions count, then the 29-year-old performer is not sure that she is making the right one. She is wearing a blonde bob wig and scarlet
The Faroe Islands, halfway to Iceland, has a tiny population with a huge appetite for fish, whale hunting and astonishing music. Will Hodgkinson meets the indie bands and folk singers - and the group that plays cement mixers ... Audio slideshow: Hear Faroese music and see more photographs by Murdo Macleod ... On a rain-soaked beach in the Faroese village of Gøta, Jón Tyril, founder of the G! Festival, is telling me about this summer's event. I've expressed concern that a stage, an audience and
This 4xCD box set covering 15 years of music from Manchester's legendary Factory imprint-- Joy Division, New Order, OMD, A Certain Ratio, Happy Mondays, and many more are represented-- has the difficult task of summarizing a famously wayward label ... read more ...