After 20 years of skirting the fringes of mainstream in the UK, it finally seems that Elbow’s days of being treasured by a few and ignored by many are over.

Psychedelic spacemen Wooden Shjips have a prevailing fascination with the West Coast of the United States. Frontman Ripley Johnson talks to VOLUME before their New Zealand shows.

Doug Jerebine travelled to the UK in the late-sixties, changed his name to Jesse Harper, and recorded one of the great lost psych-guitar masterpieces.

Bruce Springsteen expresses his feelings on the current state of the US with his angriest album to date, writes Graham Reid

Auckland, February 15, 1997 - Dirty Three's Warren Ellis is a bloody mess. Ellis' hand is bleeding after a close encounter with bandmate Mick Turner's guitar. And next week, the band will again put their bodies on the line.

Each week Duncan Greive performs some low grade analysis on the week’s New Zealand Singles Chart and reviews a few new release pop singles.

It's been quite a slog for British band Elbow, so, as singer Guy Garvey tells Scott Kara, success is proving sweet

Noise pop duo Sleigh Bells have gone from strength to strength since meeting four years ago. Singer Alexis Krauss talked to VOLUME about the pair’s new album Reign of Terror album which is bigger, louder and more metal than ever before.

Roky Erickson, whose mind-bending music with The 13th Floor Elevators in the 1960s stands up as some of the most exciting and adventurous music of the era – but his long strange trip was far from over when The Elevators came unstuck.

Flea from the Red Hot Chili Peppers talks to Scott Kara about swapping his bass guitar for weighing babies and lending a hand in Haiti.