Chaos, as Kevin Martin would suggest, is boundless. We live in a cataclysm of neurosis and doubt where catastrophe seems one nuclear drop away. “I was doing an interview at…

Bristol United Guild (BUG) is a new non-profit company designed to support the arts sector. The initiative is backed by a roster of creatives, such as Massive Attack, IDLES, Portishead,…

Amidst the chaos that was the Jabberwocky fall out, we had the task of pinning down The Bug’s Kevin Martin for a photo shoot while his team fervently scrambled to…

…Martin and Miss Red – the Israeli MC who’s become a staple of The Bug’s greatest live shows. On the track Mi Lost from The Bug’s 2014 album Angels &…

…The Bug, Sir Spyro and Last Japan. Grime 2016 is out via Butterz on CD and digital formats on 28 October – check out the tracklist in full below. Tracklist:…

…a number of the duo’s productions, collaborations and remixes with heavy selections from The Bug, Mungo’s Hi-Fi, Commodo and Gantz, Young Echo’s Jabu, Chester Giles, Rider Shafique, ManonMars and Ishan…

…his longtime label home Hyperdub. Streetlands is out now digitally and slated for vinyl release on 27 January. Listen to the new EP below. Recently, The Bug revealed that another…

…2022 So sad to read Pharoah Sanders has left this planet. A MASSIVE influence on a young bug til this day. His overblown blasts of energy/spirituality fuelled my own futile…

When JK Flesh and The Bug announced a new project, ZONAL, along with Moor Mother, last year, fans of the abrasive, dark and the dubby everywhere donned their black robes…

…left-of-centre artists each year, this time including The Bug and Jenny Hval, the depth of the festival’s programming was something to behold, with artists and curators visibly happy to be…

…singer-songwriter Fatoumata Diawara and Iris van Herpen & Salvador Breed. Final additions have also been made to the line-ups curated by psychedelic rock band Moon Duo, producer The Bug, and…

The Relapse-signed duo have shared details of their debut album. ZONAL, aka Justin Broadrick (Godflesh, Jesu) and Kevin Martin (The Bug), have announced their debut album, Wrecked. A collaboration with…

…Ed Rush’s What’s Up) championed by Objekt to the low-key brilliance of David Vunk and Carista in the Boiler Room, to the electric flow of Miss Red and The Bug…

…the summer you can see sets from fabric residents Craig Richards and Terry Francis alongside performances from the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, Andrew Weatherall, The Bug and hundreds more. Check…

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…breathtaking (and unlikely) collaboration between low-frequency icons The Bug and Dylan Carlsson’s Earth, and trickling out in gorgeous fashion courtesy of Erased Tapes’ Ukrainian piano prodigy Lubomyr Melnyk, we’ve got…

This month’s playlist goes hard. Scanning the tracklist below, you’ll see that we’ve included an expectedly ear-punishing collab between The Bug and Death Grips, an unexpectedly solid new single from…

Words: Dan Cole and Josie Thaddeus-Johns For 18 years, Berlin’s CTM festival has been championing adventurous music and art. The sprawling programme of installations, club nights and specially commissioned shows…

A breath is exhaled. A tear lands and spreads across laptop keys. A shattered copy of Junglepussy’s Satisfaction Guaranteed lies on the floor near our feet, a metaphor for broken…

…announcing a world premiere performance from Kevin Richard Martin, best known for his work as The Bug. A press release revealed that Martin’s performance will be a musical eulogy to…

…Kode9 for a 30-minute mix on the radio station, which featured SOPHIE, Jlin and DJ Lag on the tracklist. The Hyperdub producer also collaborated with The Bug on the EP…

…and Oslo collective DNA? AND? to the festival. The Bug has also released his line-up, confirming King Midas Sound, Godflesh, a world premiere of a collaboration between Kevin Richard Martin…

…Volvox and Umfang have been booked for the programme. Last year, the two played our favourite mix of 2017 in a back-to-back session. The Bug will also be making an…

…Bug(official) (@thebugzoo) January 24, 2018 Oh man. Mark E Smith. One of my biggest heroes. Had a nightmare interviewing him (of course) but then he put me in a song….

…Space Dimension Controller (live) Stanislav Tolkachev (live) Steffi DJ Stingray Tangerine Dream Terry & Gyan Riley The Advent (90s electro set) The Bug (ft. Miss Red) (live) Thundercat Tim Hecker…

…visual for Value premiered at a Simple Things panel with The Bug, Coldcut and Ninja Tune this year. On the video, the producer said in a press statement, “Value initially…

…Bug. Arcadia founders Pip Rush and Bert Cole said in a press statement, “We can’t wait to bring Arcadia into the capital for the first time. Having toured the globe,…

…project featuring Kevin Martin aka The Bug. The venue is Hotel Forum, a Soviet-era concrete beast which opened the same year that Poland’s communist government collapsed. Shrouded in smoke and…

…as William Basinski, Shackleton and Anika, Pedro Maia, The Bug vs. Dylan Carlson of Earth and Visible Cloaks amongst others. This year, there’ll be a new stage dedicated solely to…