Mike Hadreas on the everyday business of songwriting and his earliest musical obsession

The former Sonic Youth frontman on letting ideas gestate in his head, doing weird things to guitars and being galvanised by a new producer

The country megastar on her first song, her vast vault of unheard material and the lifetime’s experience of love in her new album

The California hip-hop innovator on the records at the root of two decades of beat-making sampling and scratching

In the week that Primal Scream release their new album, Chaosmosis, their frontman looks back at the tracks and times that shaped him

The jazz saxophonist and Kendrick Lamar collaborator on the creative fuel behind his epic music