Helado negro

For 60 years, HERBIE HANCOCK has taken the bonnet off music, hacking its valves and gears, forging a future as yet unseen. He shaped jazz and funk and synth-rock; Miles and Joni felt the benefit. Now he's a Polar Music Prize laureate. "I've always been this geek, this nerdy guy,"

This trio of Los Angeles musicians fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with the sounds of 60s surf music – though their sound has more in common with Latin folk music than Dick Dale. We join them to talk about their debut album, fibreglass guitars and tropical psychedelia

The electro super-producer on Bob, Bruce, Beastie Boys’ food fights and upsetting Fleetwood Mac

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With his trusty Fender Strat in hand and at a young 64, Bob Mould is an evergreen icon of alt and indie guitar – and he’s back with a new solo album

Out of the darkness comes light, and Ghost ’s future increasingly looks bright. Tobias Forge, aka Papa V Perpetua, talks dark matters and working towards “newer, better, bigger”.