Claire Duncan is Dear Time’s Waste. This is a Q&A with Claire. Her first album is out now.

Plant follows up his duet with Alison Krauss with an album of rootsy cover versions, and Gary Steel previews it

The austere sound universe of Extra Life gives Gary Steel goosebumps.

Gary Steel is bitterly disappointed by Sia’s latest, ’80s-influenced botch-job.

Gary Steel reckons the new Chemical Brothers album is all tease and no ejaculate.

Gary Steel listens to a NZ “legend” of drum’n'bass on his dubstep-influenced album, and finds it strangely wanting.

Gary Steel reviews Todd Rundgren’s new “tribute” to Robert Johnson, imaginatively titled ‘Johnson’.

Gary Steel reviews a double disc compilation of Austria’s G-Stone label, famed for its creamy, nicely engineered latte grooves.

Ry Cooder gives a candid interview to Gary Steel at the time of his Chavez Ravine release, a concept album reimagining life in an immigrant suburb of Los Angeles in the 1940s

Gary Steel reviews a warm inviting album by a group whose music mixes Afrobeat, jazz-fusion and Ethiopian jazz influences