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Thin Lizzy: Live And Dangerous 40 Years On

Thin Lizzy's best record was a double live album, says Michael Hann. Just how authentically 'live' it was is debatable but relatively important, instead it shows us that we've lost something along the way

Blue Sunshine: The Mall On Film

Forty years later, Robert Barry looks at Jeff Lieberman's bizarre acid-fried horror film, Blue Sunshine, as one of the great mall films of the late 1970s

Clarity Begins At Home: On Psychedelic Revolutionaries

Sam Gregory reviews P.W. Barber's Psychedelic Revolutionaries: Three Medical Pioneers, The Fall of Hallucinogenic Research, and the Rise of Big Pharma, a history of the neglected experiments of Humphry Osmond, Abram Hoffer, and Duncan Blewitt

Wide Eyed And Legless: Duggie Fields’s House Party

John Quin tapes his head on in Glasgow with the madcap of British post-pop figuration

Home Is Where The Hell Is: The Familial Horror Of Ari Aster’s Hereditary

In Ari Aster's Hereditary, Brian Raven Ehrenpreis finds a horror film that truly delivers – on multiple levels. Contains mild spoilers

Grime Scene Investigation: Dan Hancox On Inner City Pressure

tQ meets Dan Hancox, author of Inner City Pressure: The Story of Grime, in a Peckham Rye pub to talk about grime's phenomenal resurgence and the increasingly bleak state of London

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Bon Voyage

Melody Prochet returns to music with a collection of widescreen, windswept psychedelia

Techno For An Answer: Blawan’s Wet Will Always Dry

He’s made a load of deliciously cantankerous EPs and now he’s blowing our grateful minds with a debut album of dense, twitching techno

Hilary Woods

Colt

This debut, on Sacred Bones, announces a sublime new voice

Not Elsewhere: Björk at We Love Green

In a set that both creates a wonderful new world and re-ignites material from a decades-long career, Björk continues to push forwards and upwards

The Strange World Of… Childish Gambino

Just over a decade ago Donald Glover AKA Childish Gambino was a promising young comic actor and script writer who had a not very convincing side line as an indie hip hop musician. Aimee Armstrong examines how he became the world-bestriding talent who released This Is America

Never Gonna Give ‘Em Up: Rick Astley’s Favourite Albums

The absolutely charming Rick Astley sits down with Colm McAuliffe to tell him about his favourite records, from Roxy to Biffy Clyro and Tori Amos, taking in his enduring love of pop and prog along the way

Rockfort: Your French Releases Roundup For May & June

A mournful au revoir to our beloved Le Vasco, and a joyful bonjour to new music from Philippe Petit, Sourdure, Witxes and more

Lily Allen

No Shame

Detached, weary and hopeful: this is an unrelentingly honest album

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto

Glass

Live recording of 2016 performance is an impressionistic exercise in restraint

White Heat Can’t Melt Black Steel: Public Enemy’s Nation Of Millions Revisited

30 years on, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back is artistically unsurpassed. David Bennun looks at how Public Enemy’s masterpiece also remains politically vital

Golden Ears: Alexander Provan On Measuring Device With Organs

Robert Barry talks to Triple Canopy editor Alexander Provan about expert listening, audio formats, and his new LP, Measuring Device with Organs

Impulse Responses: Composer Deru On Scoring With The Cristal Baschet

With new series Impulse starting on YouTube Red, Charlie Brigden spoke to composer Deru about the inspiration behind his score – with an exclusive track from the soundtrack for you to listen to

Frida Kahlo: Viva La Vida

Lynsey Ford speaks to the team behind a forthcoming exhibition at the V&A of Frida Kahlo's most intimate possessions

Jiving With Cosmic Debris: Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor Reviewed

In Dave Haslam's memoir, Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor, Fergal Kinney finds an eloquent chronicler of the city in Manchester and British club life in general

Vagrant Theory: On Jeff Ferrell’s Drift

David Anderson explores the "drift dialectics" in Jeff Ferrell's account of "Illicit Mobility and Uncertain Knowledge"

Awareness & Insecurity: Jewish Identity In Spike Lee’s Blackkklansman

Beneath the binary surface of the latest Spike Lee joint, Ella Kemp finds a feeling of anxiety and self-examination

Near Future

Ideal Home

The debut from Mr Blancmange and Mr Bernholz, with a bit of Mr Ballard

Oneohtrix Point Never

Age Of

Daniel Lopatin expands his digital realm

Wizard Kid: Gruff Rhys’s Babelsberg

Mr Super Furry, now on his fifth solo album, weaves magic from threads of Nashville, AOR and folksy counterculture: he is always exploring, and always enchanting

Versions 13.0: Shirley Manson’s Favourite Albums

In a satisfyingly forthright Baker's Dozen, Garbage singer Shirley Manson argues for boycotting un-gender-balanced festivals, explores Scottish sonic pride, discovering the finger-banging potential of listening to The Clash and says a life without misery is incomplete. All that plus enthusiastic recollections of music from Nick Cave, Patti Smith, The Stone Roses and more

Rhythmic Complexity: Proc Fiskal Interviewed

21-year-old Joe Powers is exploring instrumental grime as Proc Fiskal some 400 miles from its London base all the way up in Edinburgh. Ahead of the release of his debut album, he speaks to Christian Eede about sampling, the rhythms of RP Boo and his aversion to nostalgia in music

Natalie Prass

The Future And The Past

Prass steps into a new style, with added heartbreak and extra groooove

Columnus Metallicus: Your Month In Metal

From doom yoga to martial rhythms, from Bong to Witch Mountain, from Helsinki to Hades - your roundup of the mightiest metal this month

Yob

Our Raw Heart

From the Oregon doom metal trio, an album of raw grace and nascent hope

The Strange World Of… Dead Can Dance

Lottie Brazier looks back at Australian group Dead Can Dance’s legacy in chill-out rooms, Hollywood soundtracks, as neo-classicists and fearless improvisers