UMG is taking majority control of the company having previously bought 49 percent of it in 2022 Universal Music Group (UMG) has bought one of Europe's biggest independent music companies, PIAS. After previously acquiring a 49 percent stake of the company in 2022, UMG will now be … | Continue reading
Sweaty Ceilings features a host of music journalists exploring the stories behind some of the capital's best-loved live music venues past and present A crowdfunding campaign has been launched for a new book which will celebrate the histories and untold stories behind a number of … | Continue reading
The Berlin-based artist's second full-length for the label will be released in November Perila is lining up a double album for release on Smalltown Supersound. Spanning 21 tracks, it's the Berlin-based sound artist's second full-length effort for the Norwegian label, following 20 … | Continue reading
Next year's festival will take place place at London's Southbank Centre and in Bradford, 2025 UK City of Culture New Music Biennial, the UK event which spotlights special works by composers and artists working across a wide range of genres, has launched an open call for new works … | Continue reading
Ahead of a world premiere of Black at this year’s Semibreve, and following a slew of diverse creative projects, Kevin Richard Martin catches us up on his tribute to Amy Winehouse, collaborating with KRMU, his latest LP as The Bug, the joys of self-releasing, his refusal to look b … | Continue reading
Stewart Smith salutes the emotional power of Roscoe Mitchell’s live recordings from 1973 and 74, a portal to one of the most significant musical minds of our time There are performances that rewire your brain chemistry, forcing you to listen to music and sound in different ways. … | Continue reading
Eschewing what he sees as the wilful obscurity of previous Baker's Dozens, Jim Reid takes Daniel Dylan Wray through the 13 records that "chiselled out The Jesus And Mary Chain" “I tried to be honest,” says Jim Reid, when I ask him if this collection of records has any kind of uni … | Continue reading
Saagara 3 Wacław Zimpel’s wild sax and electronica meets Carnatic musical traditions in a collaboration with Giridhar Udupa, Aggu Baba, Mysore N. Karthik and K. Raja 3 by Saagara In a globalised world, the word exotic has become increasingly loaded. What’s exotic to you may not b … | Continue reading
Karl D’Silva Love Is A Flame In The Dark Sometime Damo Suzuki, Thurston Moore and Oren Ambarchi collaborator, branches out on his own with an album of iconoclastic technicolour pop Love Is A Flame In The Dark by Karl D'Silva Musically, South Yorkshire has been a region that has h … | Continue reading
Noel Gardner's guide to the best of New Weird Britain returns, from watery worldbuilding hip-pop to isolationist, field recording-embellished ambient dub sessions Imogen, photo by Nicho Santini You probably realised this long ago, but the idea of people who write about music bein … | Continue reading
Valentina Magaletti, Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead – aka Moin – tell Tony Inglis about deconstructing genre and putting things back together piece by piece, and the enticing new avenues they're exploring on third album You Never End Photo by Amy Gwatkin “I just wanna say I really … | Continue reading
The much-acclaimed new noise rock foursome will play with special guests M(h)aol in Dalston amid a slew of UK shows Photo by Helen Messenger Blistering noise rock quartet The None will bring their acclaimed live show to London this month, performing alongside special guests M(h)a … | Continue reading
The Bug Machine Kevin Martin waves his sword about, abuses white goods, and bares his soul (just a little) Machine I by The Bug For the past eighteen months The Bug has been regularly releasing quickfire instrumental assaults on Bandcamp in a series known simply as Machine. The t … | Continue reading
As Jojo Orme announces details of debut Heartworms album Glutton For Punishment, she speaks to to Jeanette Leech about how fending for herself after a traumatic childhood led to her fierce DIY ethic, confounding sexist music blokes, and why you can love warplanes but still be ant … | Continue reading
The studio performance saw him and band perform Smog songs, and cover Stevie Nicks and Lou Reed Bill Callahan's December 2001 radio session for John Peel, broadcast on BBC Radio 1, is being given a standalone release via Drag City. The studio performance happened while Callahan w … | Continue reading
A quarter century since Black On Both Sides, Stevie Chick dives deep into a savage display of talent from a young artist ready to take it all on, and reflects on the dispersed promise of what was actually to follow “People talk about hip hop like it’s some giant living in the hil … | Continue reading
Hawksmoor Oneironautics Bristol-based modular synth-twiddler dreams of motorway junctions and Tangerine Dream Oneironautics, as any good classicist can divine, is the practice of being a dream traveller, a voyager in the unconscious, a somnial spaceman. These days, we’d call it l … | Continue reading
With the publication of his new book Experiencing Sound: The Sensation of Being, American musicologist Lawrence Kramer explores the history of attempts to capture the soundscape of battle From ancient times to the war-torn present, the experience of war has demanded documentation … | Continue reading
The band's first LP in 16 years will be released next month The Cure will play their only full live show of 2024 next month at London's Troxy to mark the release of their latest album, Songs From A Lost World. Scheduled for November 1, the night of the release of the new record, … | Continue reading
The book collects images from the Icelandic artist's concert series of the same name Björk is publishing a photobook called Cornucopia. Spanning 480 pages, the book chronicles the Icelandic artist's concert series of the same name, which she debuted in 2019 and picked back up fro … | Continue reading
The Portuguese festival kicks off later this month Semibreve has added a final wave of specially commissioned sound works to the programme for its upcoming 2024 edition. The Braga festival will newly host works by Jim O'Rourke and Keith Fullerton Whitman, as well as a presentatio … | Continue reading
The London day festival is moving south next year Field Day will leave its base of Victoria Park and take place at Brockwell Park next summer. The day festival is moving to the South London park after hosting its previous four editions at Victoria Park in connection with All Poin … | Continue reading
On the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Mat Colegate pushes back against the common consensus that its director Tobe Hooper spent the rest of his career merely failing to escape its shadow, and argues that he deserves just as much acclaim for the misunderstood fi … | Continue reading
At this year's edition of Riga's Skaņu Mežs , Daryl Worthington finds an eclectic and boldly-curated lineup that offers glorious discombobulation, and picks out six of the very best Photo by Arturs Pavlovs Riga’s Skaņu Mežs (Sound Forest) is uniquely suited to a time when the not … | Continue reading
Mariam the Believer Breathing Techniques Space and cinematic richness suggest a tender vulnerability on Mariam Wallentin's third solo album Breathing Techniques by Mariam The Believer Having built a career with Wildbirds and Peacedrums that is bold and sometimes raucous, and solo … | Continue reading
Meemo Comma Decimation of I Lara Rix-Martin's fifth Meemo Comma album takes inspiration from a classic of Soviet science fiction Decimation Of I by Meemo Comma Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s Roadside Picnic was first published in 1972 and, while it has never been quite as well-kno … | Continue reading
Ilia Rogatchevski speaks to Polish multi-instrumentalist Wacław Zimpel and master ghatam player Giridhar Udupa about their parallel journeys through music, and their combination as "interstellar folk" project Saagara Photo by Rakesh Maiya In the first few seconds of ‘God Of Banga … | Continue reading
Richard Skelton The Old Thrawing Crux The Lancastrian electroacoustic composer weaves a web of sonic fictions around his latest exercise in epic ambience the old thrawing crux by Richard Skelton The story of Richard Skelton’s The Old Thrawing Crux is miraculous. It was made withi … | Continue reading
It's back nearly a quarter century in this month's antidote to the algorithm as Luke Turner revisits the heady Monday nights at Trash, where the arch and exotic rhythms and deadpan chat of electroclash soundtracked cheap booze and rent of early 21st century London Electroclash se … | Continue reading
With its squelchy electronics, post-trip-hop beats and black metal roar, this might be the Finnish quintet’s shortest album, but it’s also their most expansive and experimental, finds Kez Whelan Photo credit: Rainer Paananen Muuntautuja, the title of Oranssi Pazuzu’s sixth album, … | Continue reading
Tracklisting and new song from Songs Of A Loss World revealed The Cure have unveiled a new song from much-anticipated new album Songs Of A Lost World. 'A Fragile Thing' is described by Robert Smith as "the 'love song' of the album, but it’s not really a love song in the way that … | Continue reading
The Chinese artist's latest album combines opera with Chinese folk music Haining-born, Berlin-based artist otay:onii, who is among the SHAPE+ roster of artists for 2024/25, has released a new album, True Faith Ain't Blind. Spanning eight tracks, it's mostly acoustic and combines … | Continue reading
The new record is based around a podcast he produced for Resident Advisor in June Photo by Ola Rindal Actress has a new album on the way, titled Даррен Дж. Каннінгем. Building on a partnership with the label Smalltown Supersound that was established earlier this year with the Jun … | Continue reading
It features on a new deluxe edition of her 2024 album 'The Collective' Kim Gordon has shared a new song, 'Bangin' On The Freeway'. The track, which you can watch a video for below, features on a new deluxe edition of the US artist's album The Collective, which was released in Mar … | Continue reading
Each edition will include three different cover stars, on even rotation on newsstand shelves DJ Mag has announced a significant shake-up to its physical magazine, which will see it become a quarterly publication from January 2025 onwards. The new iteration of the magazine will no … | Continue reading
At odds with the world, with reality, with Britpop and with each other, Suede were in a terrible place as they wrote and recorded Dog Man Star. But, writes Matthew Lindsay, it's the album that would end up as their masterpiece. This feature was originally published in 2014 Bernar … | Continue reading
John Doran enjoys Lankum, Mica Levi, Petronn Sphene, AYA and Tarta Relena at Unsound whose theme of noise inspires as much optimism as pessimism. Main portrait, Lord Spikeheart at Kamienna The verb ‘to chitter’ has gone through a reversal of fortunes. Once falling between the orn … | Continue reading
Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction Photo courtesy of La … | Continue reading
In the latest edition of our journey through the global underground, Álvaro Molina examines the steadily-diversifying sounds of Chilean DIY, from abstract hip hop to ambient deep listening, and picks out five crucial new releases DJ Felpa at Cajacústica. Photo by Detective Cona C … | Continue reading
OneDa Formula OneDa Manchester MC brings puts the pedal to the metal with a full tank of righteous pussy power Formula OneDa by OneDa “Just do you and kill it / The right energy will feel it, innit / My gyal just fly / Do more than just survive,” OneDa urges on ‘Set It Off’. One … | Continue reading
Crazed quartet follow Unsound triumph with dates across the EU and UK including London, Bristol and Salford Concentration by Michal Murawski Aussie-German group Concentration are one of the greatest live acts on the planet right now, a perplexing, angry, hilarious, neurotically h … | Continue reading
The classic album has just been given an expanded reissue by Warp Records London gallery Tate Modern is set to host a listening party for Warp Records' recent expanded reissue of Selected Ambient Works Volume II. The event is scheduled for October 25, and will run from 6pm until … | Continue reading
'Aggressive' is the lead track from a forthcoming mixtape called 'Black British Music (2024)' South London-based artist Jim Legxacy has released a new song to mark his signing to XL Recordings. 'Aggressive' is the lead track from a forthcoming mixtape by the singer/rapper titled … | Continue reading
Jaša Bužinel address the "panopticonisation" of dance music culture, and reviews exciting new releases from various electronic realms, among them new albums by CS + Kreme, Lechuga Zafiro, Mala Herba, Rrose x Polygonia and more Mala Herba, photo by FED It’s normal to get disenchan … | Continue reading
As the Brewis brothers, the mainstays of Field Music, prepare to release a new album, they guide Jonathan Wright through their work together – and apart – via 10 key releases Photo by Andy Martin Though they’ve been making records together as Field Music for more than two decades … | Continue reading
Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere Rich, ambient tapestries meet serious metal riffing on the latest from Denver's Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere by Blood Incantation Absolute Elsewhere feels like the cosmic leap into the unknown that Denver quartet Blood Incantation have … | Continue reading
It features vocals by Nigerian-British MC Magugu The Bug has shared a new track, titled 'Deep In A Mud'. The song is a vocal version of his previously released cut 'Drop (Machine Sex)', and features Nigerian-British MC Magugu. You can watch a video for it below, and purchase it v … | Continue reading
It marks the Berlin and New York-based multi-disciplinary artist's first new material since 2018 Colin Self has released a new EP through US label RVNG Intl.. Spanning four tracks, lemniscate centres Self's voice and takes its name from the mathematical term for what's widely kno … | Continue reading