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Bert Jansch

Just A Simple Soul

From his first solo releases through his years with Pentangle and on to his equally brilliant late work – an elegant, rich compilation spanning Jansch’s whole life, compiled (and with linernotes) by Bernard Butler

The Altar Destiny: Parker Ito At Primary

Parker Ito (b.1986) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles, represented by Chatteau Shatto and Team, his new solo show PII at Primary (Nottingham) brings his P series of exhibitions to the UK, providing new insight into the artist's work and practice

Playing Possum: Matthew Holness’s Other Dark Places

Mat Colegate interviews Matthew Holness about his film debut Possum, out this weekend. Learn about how Holness was introduced to the world of horror fiction, the funniness of failure, and then click through to hear Holness talk about his favourite examples of the genre

Mad World: Julia Holter’s Aviary

On Julia Holter’s brilliant and timely new album, traditions and structures are overturned, the apocalypse feels imminent, and there are waves of euphoria among the chaos. Sound familiar?

Junk Shop Classical on George Antheil: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

American composer George Antheil – the self-proclaimed "bad boy of music" – was a pioneer of sound who had a shot at the big time and blew it. But he found a place in history, putting into practice a trailblazing invention by "the most beautiful woman in the world", Hedy Lamarr

TVAM

Psychic Data

Think you’ve been here before? This is actually a clever work of retrofuturist innovation and a trompe l’oreille rolled into one

New War

Coin

Melbourne's rabble rousers return with more fierce tunes for troubled times

Spool’s Out: Your Cassette Tape Release Roundup For October

Rifling through the month’s best cassette tapes, Tristan Bath stumbles upon a miraculous one-man free jazz outfit, bangin’ Philly electronic producer W00DY, Polish post-footwork and a new appreciation for John Cage

Karine Polwart with Steven Polwart & Inge Thomson

Laws Of Motion

Another triumph from Polwart: powerful tales of war, hope, history and unknown futures

Working Class Woman: Marie Davidson’s Favourite Albums

Following the release earlier this month of her best record yet, titled Working Class Woman, Marie Davidson talks to Christian Eede about 13 of her favourite records covering Kraftwerk, Eminem, Donna Summer and more

Music For Algorithms: In Search Of Eno’s Ambient Vision In A Spotify Era

As Brian Eno prepares to reissue his influential 'ambient' albums, William Doyle asks what significance the genre still has in a world of Spotify playlists designed for wellness pursuits and making admin bearable

The Strange World Of… Awesome Tapes From Africa

Label founder Brian Shimkovitz talks to Richie Troughton about how his blog of obscure and rarely heard cassettes from Africa became a record label determined to locate artists and see them finally get the acclaim they deserve for their work

Spontaneous Outpourings: Agar Agar Interview

David McKenna talks to Clara Cappagli and Armand Bultheel of French synth pop duo Agar Agar ahead of their London show at Village Underground

Band Of Pre-Brothers: Dire Straits’ Debut LP 40 Years On

On the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, David Bennun looks back at the band Dire Straits were before mega-stardom

Confessions Of A Window Cleaner: Rodney Graham Interviewed

Rodney Graham's current show at the Lisson Gallery, London, finds the Canadian artist inhabiting a variety of characters, both on and off the canvas. Allan Gardner joins him to talk post-punk, studio practice, and conceptualism

A Question of Attribution: An American Story And The Literature Of 9/11

The new novel by Christopher Priest, An American Story, joins a growing literature concerned with, or circulating around, the atrocities on 9/11. Author and critic Nina Allan weighs up the competition

The Fight Has Already Begun: The Black Cultural Activism Map

As the Stuart Hall Foundation launch their latest initiative, the Black Cultural Activism Map – a dynamic and interactive online resource mapping past and present culturally diverse arts initiatives and cultural activism in Britain – Zahra Dalilah reports on the inauguration

Jean-Michel Jarman: The Last of Docklands

In an exclusive (edited) extract from his contribution to Regeneration Songs: Sound of Investment and Loss from East London, Will Jennings explores Derek Jarman's relationship to the London docklands

Living Treasures: Oceania At The Royal Academy

Jude Cowan Montague dives deep into the Royal Academy's exhibition of art from the region of Oceania

His Grainy Voice: REM Reviewed By Lonelady

This week sees the release of REM At The BBC, a boxset of studio and live recordings spanning 35 years. Here, Julie Campbell aka Lonelady reflects on a lifetime of loving Michael Stipe and his band

Eeestirocksampler: Welcome To New Weird Estonia

Our man from Accrington, Richard Foster, goes deep as he investigates soul-boy situationism, (pre)teen mumblerap, “techno shamanism”, nonstop laptop cabaret and tales of stolen geese whilst making sense of what constitutes (New) Weird Estonia

Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture

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

Irresponsible Science – An Interview With Maja S. K. Ratkje

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 Strange World Of… Current 93

In their 36 year history Current 93 have produced a body of work that is bewilderingly large; Aimee Armstrong is here to provide ten relatively accessible points of entry

Return Of The American Primitive: Joe Cardamone Interviewed

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

Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner

Care

An extraordinary, moving montage of field recordings and electronics

Lonnie Holley

MITH

A vivid document of 2018 America from the veteran outsider musician

Feel Love, Real Love: BTS at the O2

K-pop superstars start their first European tour with an expressive, emotionally charged set

Moments Of Pleasure: The Red Shoes By Kate Bush 25 Years On

It’s often dismissed as a rare misstep but, Ben Hewitt argues, her seventh album is filled with moments of pleasure

A Cult Within A Cult: The Posies Interviewed

Limits Of Control: Talking To Doug Haywood About Chris Burden

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

Debord Games: The Situationist Spectacle In Berlin

John Quin delves through the back pages of Guy Debord and Asger Jorn on an archival detour that leads up to the events of May ‘68