Following his set at the Ghostly International Showcase at the Decibel Festival, Ben Wynn (better known as the hip hop/electronica DJ Deru) sits down with Gabriel Bogart to discuss influences, hip hop and forthcoming releases.

Mexican instrumental band Lost Reverie recently released its debut album Desiderata on the free-to-download netlabel Wise Owl Records. Here, David Murrieta sits down to talk to multi-instrumentalist Juan Herrera.

Los Angeles’s Beware of Safety certainly got our attention in 2007 when they boldly combined frail emotion with level intensity on their self-released debut, It Is Curtains. They are now set to unleash their highly anticipated full-length follow-up, dogs, in the dying months of 2008. Mac Nguyen sits down with guitarist Steve Molter in sunny California for a chat.

We at The Silent Ballet have been enjoying the bliss that is Yndi Halda for what seems like an eternity now. Tom Butcher caught up with the band on their US tour to discuss beer, barns and, erm, Batman.

Peter Broderick has become a firmly-established favorite at The Silent Ballet courtesy of such stellar releases as Float and Docile. Here, he talks to Fred Bevan about living in Europe, his forthcoming album and skateboarding namesakes.