The UK artist has also shared a video for the title track FKA twigs has shared details of her long-awaited third studio album, EUSEXUA. Spanning 11 tracks, the new record features production from the likes of Koreless and Eartheater, among others. The two named artists worked on … | Continue reading
On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip hop luminary. This feature was first … | Continue reading
Simon Price visits his happy place via the reissue of a unique mash up culture & sampledelia adjacent debut album Thunder, Lightning, Strike by The Go! Team The Go! Team are my happy place. If ever I need a sudden mood boost, I need only reach for 'Huddle Formation', a blast of w … | Continue reading
Laurence Pike The Undreamt-of Centre With warm electronics and thumping drums, the latest from the Australian drummer-composer is the post-Covid requiem mass you’ve all been waiting for The Undreamt-of Centre by Laurence Pike Throughout its history and many forms, the requiem has … | Continue reading
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Mat Colegate goes deep into the bloody realm of Italian schlock scores – Goblin! Libra! Daniele Pattuchi! The soundtrack to that film about PCP maddened animals attacking Frankfurt! While it should come as no surprise that a large volume … | Continue reading
It's the cellist's fourth album for RVNG Intl. Oliver Coates has a new album on the way, titled Throb, Shiver, Arrow Of Time. Spanning 10 tracks, it marks the British cellist's fourth album for US label RVNG Intl., and arrives off the back of Coates' work on a number of film soun … | Continue reading
The event will take in live gigs, club nights, workshops and more across four days in the UK city Batu En Masse, Strange Brew, Bristol, November 2023. Photo credit: Simon Holliday / simonholliday.com Bristol festival En Masse has shared its full programme of events for 2024. Taki … | Continue reading
'Monolithic' precedes a new album from the Takiaya Reed-led project, which will be released sometime in 2025 Divide And Dissolve have signed to Bella Union and shared a new single, titled 'Monolithic'. The new cut, which you can listen to below, precedes a new album, which is exp … | Continue reading
Written by Joe Muggs, the 300-page book will be available from December mockups-design.com London club fabric is rounding off its 25th anniversary year with a book chronicling its history to date. The 300-page book, simply titled fabric, is written by music journalist Joe Muggs, … | Continue reading
With this year's Fat Out Fest just around the corner, Chardine Taylor-Stone picks her must-see artists, DJs, parties and workshops from this year's festival Nuha Ruby Ra, photo by Louise Mason As the autumn equinox approaches, Salford is set to transform into a vibrant hub of exp … | Continue reading
Pyrrhon Exhaust In the same way Party Cannon's logo really sets them apart from the crowd, Pyrrhon have very unusual lyrics for a death metal band, among many other positive attributes, notes Noel Gardner Exhaust by Pyrrhon Song lyrics tend to be inextricable from the songs they … | Continue reading
If you're going to come back, then come back at full strength, says Jon Buckland on listening to the band's vigorous and brilliant seventh album Rack Rack by The Jesus Lizard Around 12 years ago there was an outpouring of both excitement and outrage when two bands from my formati … | Continue reading
Twenty years on from the release of his first Solo Piano album, Gonzales writes for tQ on his regret that the music he helped to bring into existence now provides easy fodder for streaming algorithms, and piles of cash for a lazy music business. It’s usually a forest, or a mounta … | Continue reading
Coco & Clair Clair Girl Plainspoken Atlanta duo return with scrappy follow-up grabbing synths, beats and vibes from anywhere in reach One refreshing vogue not yet over-utilised by the more sculpted Taylors and Sabrinas is: plain musical languorousness, meets hip hop’s capacity fo … | Continue reading
Rough Trade Denmark Street will be the independent retailer's seventh UK store Independent record shop Rough Trade is opening a new branch in Central London next month. Situated on Denmark Street in London's West End, the store will be split across two levels and will also host e … | Continue reading
The band have revisited their 1987 album to produce a collection of new versions of its tracks Laibach are releasing a new version of their album, Opus Dei. Due out in December, Opus Dei Revisited sees the Slovenian band return to what was their first full-length record for Mute … | Continue reading
Ahead of an appearance at Skaņu Mežs festival in Latvia, Derek Walmsley assesses to what extent Ae are unique in the world of electronic music given their live shows represent a space of spontaneous creation while the release of live albums and radio sessions have started to feel … | Continue reading
Pietu Arvola Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas Inspired equally by Fallout 4 and the Covid-19 pandemic, one quarter of Musta Huone heads deep into the murmur of the forest Finnish musician and artist Pietu Arvola goes under various names. Best known … | Continue reading
The label says it's the release that has been most requested by fans since the archival series began Mute and Future Days' series of Can live albums is set to continue with the November release of Live In Keele 1977. Capturing late-period Can, the live album features the core lin … | Continue reading
The four-track 'Movimento' EP is out next month Donato Dozzy and Neel, known collectively as Voices From The Lake, have launched a new sub-label for their Spazio Disponibile imprint, called Spazio Nero. The new venture will focus solely on techno and dance floor-oriented records, … | Continue reading
Creation Rebel, GAIKA and Wu-Lu are among the last acts joining the bill for the Utrecht festival Le Guess Who? has shared the full lineup for its 2024 edition. Taking place across multiple venues in Utrecht, the festival's 17th edition will newly take in live appearances from Cr … | Continue reading
It follows the revival of the classic electro outfit last year when Atkins released the 'Maintain The Golden Ratio' EP Juan Atkins is lining up a new EP for release as part of his Cybotron project. The esteemed electro outfit was revived from a 28-year new release hiatus last yea … | Continue reading
From the upbeat and uncouth to the blaringly sullen, via Oslo, Tokyo, Newcastle and Denver, Noel Gardner brings you his latest guide to the very best in brand new punk and hardcore Public Opinion. Photo by Derek Rathbun Noel Gardner · Noel's Straight Hedge September 2024 You may … | Continue reading
The Hanley brothers, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon have pieced together the record from hundreds of hours of bootleg set recordings Popstock Records, an outfit run by former members of The Fall, is releasing a "re-imagined" version of the band's third album, Grotesque (After The G … | Continue reading
Chris Hughes of punk rave nutters Fat Dog gets his rod out and tells Luke Turner all about how angling has become a form of meditation on tour – not to mention providing his tea. Pics thanks to Chris Hughes. It’s not surprising that Chris Hughes of Fat Dog occasionally needs to g … | Continue reading
Masayoshi Fujita Migratory Japanese vibraphonist and marimba player communes with the forests of Hyōgo, with just a touch of darkness lurking in the woods Migratory by Masayoshi Fujita Migratory is as much an album about movement as it is about finding one’s place in the world. A … | Continue reading
Half a century after the release of one of the all-time great live albums, John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale. This feature was first published on 2 April 2020 “It’s one hundred years from today and … | Continue reading
In this this month's subscriber podcast, John Doran and Luke Turner head to the North West to discuss Terence Davies’ portrait of the city he grew up in Of Time And The City is a documentary commissioned for Liverpool’s stint as City of Culture in 2008, made by the director Teren … | Continue reading
LYAM The Art Of Letting Go Rising star on the British alternative rap circuit bares his soul over a vibrant sonic stew “I told her, I am not perfect but baby I’m learning,” LYAM begins earnestly as the hypnotic, relentless beat of ‘NASCAR’ kicks off his second artist album. It’s … | Continue reading
The record, the UK DJ and producer said, is a "celebration of the gift of otherness" British DJ and producer Midland has shared details of his debut solo album, Fragments Of Us. Set to be released his own Graded label, the 13-track album centres the voices of a number of the prod … | Continue reading
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Wild God https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIN5F5UNw5E “I stepped into an avalanche / it covered up my soul”: so ran the first line of the first album by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, From Her To Eternity, released 40 years ago. The vicious cover of one of Le … | Continue reading
It's the UK duo's first full-length studio record since 2019 Underworld are set to release a new album, titled Strawberry Hotel. Spanning 15 tracks, the duo's 11th studio full-length blends the euphoric, dance floor-focused techno of past material with acoustic guitars and Karl H … | Continue reading
Acid Mt. Fuji was an anomaly in Susumu Yokota's back catalogue, says Daryl Worthington; a glorious anomaly that forges psychic links between Japan, Chicago and Detroit Acid Mt. Fuji (Remastered 30th Anniversary Edition) by Susumu Yokota The late Susumu Yokota built worlds within … | Continue reading
Ahead of a reissue of the classic Bronski Beat debut album Lesley Chow talks about one of the great pop albums of 1984 We all remember the piercing call that drives ‘Smalltown Boy’, Bronski Beat’s debut single: that soaring note of release which turns out to be a wail of pain, th … | Continue reading
Fat Dog WOOF South East London quartet summon a very particular sort of Englishness, finds Richard Foster WOOF. by Fat Dog Years ago, your writer would often find himself assailed in his East Lancashire locale by the sorts of people who knew about things. Pep talks from working l … | Continue reading
Shovel Dance Collective, Goblin Band and more will perform at a MOTH Club event this weekend Photo courtesy of Broadside Hacks Broadside Hacks, the collective at the heart of the new wave of folk music in London, will host a tribute to Peter Bellamy of The Young Tradition to mark … | Continue reading
The original track appeared on the band's 2023 album 'Everything Is Alive' Slowdive have shared a pair of remixes, by Grouper and Daniel Avery, of their 2023 track 'Kisses'. Released in the wake of the band's recent headline set at End Of The Road festival, and ahead of a series … | Continue reading
The band will play shows in New York, Los Angeles and London later this year TV On The Radio have returned from a five-year hiatus with the announcement of a number of live shows, as well as a reissue of their 2004 debut album, Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes. The updated rel … | Continue reading
The Competition and Markets Authority will look into whether the ticket-selling platform's use of "dynamic pricing" breached consumer protection law The UK competition regulator has launched an investigation into the sale of Oasis reunion gig tickets, and specifically Ticketmaste … | Continue reading
Coming swiftly after the dissolution of Black Midi, Geordie Greep sets out on his own with an album informed by the music of Latin America, Brazil in particular. Ahead of the release of The New Sound, Eden Tizard speaks to Greep about the audacious new record. Cover photograph by … | Continue reading
The Catalan duo’s brutal post-industrial style captures the spirit of the now-legendary club it rose from, writes Skye Butchard Photo credit: Fabio Calabretta Màgia Roja changed Silvia Konstance's life. Growing up, she wasn’t that interested in music, and hadn’t been to a concert … | Continue reading
---__--___ Night of Fire More Eaze and Seth Graham return (joined this time by recovery girl), turning rage at systematic oppression into surreal beauty Night of Fire by ---__--____ When we last heard ---__--___, they sounded like they’d exploded an angel. In just over two minute … | Continue reading
The expanded edition of the band's 1986 album takes in unreleased demos, 12-inch singles and two DVDs New Order are releasing a deluxe box set version of their album Brotherhood. Out in November, the limited edition release arrives off the back of previous reissues of records Sub … | Continue reading
The 11-track release is out next month Moin, the trio of Valentina Magaletti and Raime's Tom Halstead and Joe Andrews, have shared details of their third album, You Never End. Continuing their affiliation with UK label AD 93, which stretches back to the release of 2020 debut full … | Continue reading
'Young Lion' is dedicated to her son, Isaak, and appears on a new release celebrating trans artists and people Sade's first new song since 2018 is set to appear on a new 46-track compilation from the New York-based not-for-profit label Red Hot. TRAИƧA takes in contributions from … | Continue reading
It's out on Thrill Jockey in November The Body have a new album on the way, titled The Crying Out Of Things. Set for release via the duo's usual label home of Thrill Jockey, the nine-track record takes in guest contributions from Dis Fig, with whom they contributed earlier this y … | Continue reading
The four-tracker is the UK producer's first EP since 2022 Pearson Sound is releasing a new EP on Hessle Audio, the label he co-runs with Ben UFO and Pangaea. The four-tracker, titled Which Way Is Up, explores a variety of tempos and sounds within the producer and label's usual so … | Continue reading
Although he says he doesn't listen to music, and that he's not a musician, The Jesus Lizard's David Yow nevertheless supplies a heartfelt Baker's Dozen that ranges from Motörhead to Snoopy's Christmas Photo by Joshua Black Wilkins “I rarely listen to music at all,” says David Yow … | Continue reading