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Ahead of a major festival devoted to issues around copyright, Larisa Mann explores the relationship that Jamaican soundsystem culture has to the concept of musical ownership. Photo of Sister Nancy by Campagnie Valentin
Before her appearance at next month's Le Guess Who? festival, Maja S. K. Ratkje talks to Russell Cuzner about her wide-ranging work that, whether freely improvised or composed for orchestra, consistently bears the mark of an uncompromising, unconventional spirit
The Icarus Line is dead, but Joe Cardamone lives on. Ahead of his appearance at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, he tells Stevie Chick about his searing new multimedia project, making art in the era of Trump, and how he survived the end of the greatest rock & roll band of his generation. Videos NSFW
With a new show by Chris Burden (1946-2015) at the Gagosian, Jude Cowan Montague chats to friend and fellow artist Doug Haywood at the private view, taking in playfulness and theatricality, pain and performance, and – naturally – Roadrunner cartoons
In this week's Baker's Dozen, Santigold takes Tara Joshi through 13 favourite albums from Salt-N-Pepa to the Cocteau Twins, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone and Bad Brains, and points out that while Morrissey might have gone wrong, you can't take away what his songs once gave her
About to turn 84 and still going strong, Hans-Joachim Roedelius has led a long and extraordinary life, which has taken in Nazi Germany, postwar turmoil, the birth of Krautrock and working with Michael Rother and Brian Eno among others. His mind, however, is fixed on the present and the future, he tells David Stubbs
Diversity, equality, inclusivity and love as a human right? As the world began to sit up and pay attention to Me Too in the U.S. and gay refugees in Chechnya, Lindsay Kemp teamed up with singer songwriter Tim Arnold to make sure his last dance would remain a beacon of love and light to unite all. Words by Ben Pelchat
Tristan Bath reviews the month’s best new cassette tapes, including a vast compilation from the Iranian underground, some new directions in psychedelic guitar music, plus an experimental transmission from your favourite dystopian soul outfit, Algiers