Avey tare

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

You can’t rush art. Mindfulness and spirituality matter. There are times to keep music simple. Be receptive to the vibrations of the world… These are among the things that shape his world view.

Deep inside his London studio, BRIAN ENO is busy bringing “playful” experimental strategies to the studio graft – as his new collaborative albums with conceptual artist Beatie Wolfe attest. But, over pastries, an uncharacteristically digressive Eno finds time to discuss Scott Walker’s voice, communal living with Harmonia, mid-‘60s ‘happenings’ and his deep enthusiasm to create anew. “I’m sorry to be so shamelessly enthusiastic about my work,” he tells Tom Pinnock

System Of A Down bassist and Seven Hours After Violet linchpin Shavo Odadjian faces your questions (and far-fetched allegations)

Away from his day job as The National’s lugubrious frontman, MATT BERNINGER has reached back into his Ohio upbringing for a ruminative new solo record. But behind the childhood tales of gang fights, drowned train cars and Christmas tree farms lurks midlife melancholy. “I’m writing about trying to understand my own fear,” he tells Laura Barton

THE HAMMER INTERVIEW