An overview

Mark Prendergast presents a general overview of record labels, artists, and recordings that make up the exciting area of new electronic and experimental music in the late 1980s.

Cover Versions

Why do them, how do them, when do them.

And A Happy Birthday To Us

Come to our party, have some jelly, read some of our best bits, and wish us a happy first birthday, hip hip...

The musicians' gossip column. Stuff you wouldn't believe. (We didn't.)

Gossip, Fibs, Stuff And Nonsense

oh really?

The monthly miscellany gets stuck into the trivia

Looking at Mixers

16/8/2 mixer review

Snares

Getting Publicity

the workings of the Press, and how YOU can get publicity out of them

the bits no-one else prints

The pick of 1983's equipment releases.

Sounds, samples, & software upgrades for the modern studio

New software, updates, sounds, and samples

Six of our favourite drummers choose 30 of their favourite drum tracks.

Nick Feldman

Nick Feldman chooses eight great tracks

Musicians & Health

250 players reply to a smoking, drinking and drugs questionnaire

Film Score Writer

James Betteridge goes to Hollywood, or thereabouts, to find out all about sound and vision

Eight top pop players and producers discuss the necessity of notation. Richard Walmsley chairs the debate

If you saw an awkward figure stumbling between the stacks, that was Jim Betteridge

what exactly do promoters do, and are they worth the money?

Welcome to The News where we tell you what on earth is happening.

wealthy, successful and influential, but not an ounce of dress sense in sight