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A classic of film scores, Albinoni’s Adagio isn’t a lost baroque masterpiece; it’s a spoof composed by his biographer in the 1950s. Harmless fun, asks Phil Hebblethwaite, or a savage exposé of classical music’s obsession with authenticity and dead men?
Grindcore emerged as a backlash to global capitalism, before Pig Destroyer did something much nastier with it. As they release an album that deals with our harrowing modern era, Dan Franklin examines whether this ferocious genre is actually being outstripped by a remorseless new reality. All Pig Destroyer pictures by Joey Wharton
Former Cocteau Twins bassist, founder of Bella Union and now half of Lost Horizons, Simon Raymonde, plays Sea Change festival this weekend. Lottie Brazier talks to him about Triptych, his new film with BAFTA-winning director Kieran Evans - which has its premiere today on the Quietus
One-man studio WEIRDCORE has achieved notoriety for his furious, ultra-stroboscopic and often nightmarish visual work for a host of collaborators including Aphex Twin and The Caretaker. But he appreciates an opportunity to slow it down, he tells Jamie Ryder
In April, Autechre gave us eight hours of new music across four shows on beloved London radio station NTS. Warp are releasing the sessions next week on vinyl, CD and digital; here Jackie Thompson explores her love for the experimental Rochdale pair
Like An Icon, Lucy O’Brien’s newly revised, updated biography explores Madonna's inner turmoil and motivations. Here she picks the ten tracks that define the artist's career, with exclusive insights from the musicians and producers who helped her make them
Ahead of his appearance at Pop-Kultur this weekend, Ghostpoet talks to Adam Quarshie about swapping the capital for small-town life, the anxieties of the internet age and mental health in the music industry. Ghostpoet portraits by Steve Gullick