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Burning Down the House by Jonathan Gould tells the story of the American new wave band and the fertile scene they came up with, but does the book risk reducing the city and everyone in it to a backdrop for the group's mercurial lead singer? asks Elizabeth Wiet
A long-term fixture on Beirut’s underground experimental music scene, the latest from Sary Moussa is caught between the political and the personal, the whisper close and wide-open space. Wind, Again is an album whose contradictions make it all the more compelling, finds Kirsteen McNish
For 40 years, Jon Spencer has been playing a mutant strain of rock & roll. Here he offers Mark Andrews 10 entry points to his vast back catalogue, from his earliest days in Pussy Galore, through the Blues Explosion all the way up to his still-nameless new band
This month’s edition of our dance music column brings a surprise six-hour marathon set from Italian techno legend Donato Dozzy and plenty of dancefloor goodies, from “bard tech” and new gen Italo house to re-touched French Touch and cerebral IDM techno
The mainstream music biz reckons that devoted fans are the golden geese that'll keep laying, and the streaming services are about to get in on the grift. Eamonn Forde explains why this makes no business sense
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in the heady days of the band's early time with 4AD
Seedy English vignettes supercharged by the bombast of New York's superclubs – though they didn't then know it then, the world's first modern remix album found Soft Cell on a seesaw between hedonism and self-destruction, says Patrick Clarke
From teenage awakenings at the hands of Björk and Stereolab via English folksong, a lockdown obsession with Dead Can Dance and a newfound love of Lili Boulanger, Patrick Wolf takes Luke Turner through the thirteen records that have defined his life
Jerskin's second album Once Upon a Time... In Shropshire is a novel album of country death songs, country life songs and country love songs. But why did it take so long and how does it fit in with his growing reputation as a composer for films? Words by Robert Davidson. All photography by Tim Gutt. CW: Contains mention of suicide
Ahead of their show at Cagliari's Siren Festival next month, Stevie Chick speaks to The Messthetics as he charts their story so far, from its roots in the relentless rhythm section of Fugazi to the recruitment of bravura guitarist Anthony Pirog, and new lightning-in-a-bottle collaborations with James Brandon Lewis