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Differing Experiences: Radiohead Live At Glastonbury

Radiohead's headline spot was a set of ups and downs, or so our man-on-the-ground Patrick Clarke believed. But the outside world did not agree - so when is a disappointment actually a triumph?

20 Years On: The Prodigy’s The Fat Of The Land

In the summer of Britpop and Blair, The Prodigy were the irritant ants crawling over the celebratory picnic table. Angus Batey recalls an encounter with the reluctant biggest band in the land, and examines their nonconformist legacy

Can

The Singles

Still Glad To Be Gay: Does Pride Need To Return To Radicalism?

Writer Darryl W. Bullock looks back at the politically radical roots of the Pride march and asks if, in an age of continuing homophobia, it should make more effort to honour them

TLC

TLC

The Best Albums Of 2017 Thus Far – And A Quietus Appeal For Help

In association with Norman Records we've turned our ears molten with listening and put together a list of the 100 best records released in the first six months of 2017. While we're at it, we've also got an appeal to you to help us continue doing what we do

Green Day, The Gilman Street Project And The Wide Reach of East Bay Punk

Veronica Irwin went to see Green Day live at Hyde Park at the weekend. Here she reflects on how they represent East Bay punk on an international scale

It’s A Music Lover’s Thing: An Interview With Rabih Beaini

Ahead of his performance at Outernational Days next week, Lebanese electronic musician and Morphine label head Rabih Beaini talks to Rory Gibb about the challenges and emerging possibilities of collaboration across countries and cultures

I Am A Camera: August Sander Meets Otto Dix In Liverpool

Tate Liverpool's exhibition Portraying a Nation: Germany 1919-1933 draws together two artists of the Weimar Republic, Otto Dix and August Sander

All The Young Dudes: At The Inaugural Baltic Artists’ Award

Pedro Cabrita Reis, Lorna Simpson, Mike Nelson, and Monica Bonvicini choose works by Jose Dávila, Eric N. Mack, Shen Xin, and Toni Schmale for the only artists' award chosen by artists themselves

Albums Of The Month: All The Best New Music Released This June

From Algiers to Umfang, via Circle, Vince Staples and a whole lot more, here's all the best music the last month had to offer, rounded up in one handy place

Suge I Stay Or Suge I Go? Tupac All Eyez On Me Reviewed

The Quietus Hip-Hop columnist Tara Joshi reviews the long awaited biopic of rap legend Tupac Shakur

Baby’s On Fire: Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver Reviewed

It's the hot tip to sweep the top spots, but does Edgar Wright's crime caper have what it takes? Ben Rabinovich is on the case

Can I Be Me? Director Nick Broomfield On His Whitney Houston Documentary

The acclaimed director’s new film Whitney ‘Can I Be Me’ gets backstage access and an insider story. Lucy O’Brien talks to him about the singer’s tragic life and the ‘80s music industry.

Laurel Halo

Dust

Broken English Club

The English Beach

Richard Fontenoy on Daniel O’Sullivan’s Veld

At once pastoral and cosmic, abstract and undulating, Daniel O'Sullivan's new solo album is a document of everyday enchantment

Stendhal Syndrome: Idles Interviewed

After years of struggling with their sound, Bristol's Idles found purpose in the brutal, dirty, humanity of grief. Frontman Joe Talbot discusses identity, art, society and smashing Jeremy Hunt's head

A New Generation, Rise: Travelling From Cynicism To Hope With Algiers

As Algiers release second album The Underside Of Power, an explosive combination of gospel, noise and righteous politics, Luke Turner visited the band on the Berlin leg of their current European stadium tour with Depeche Mode.

Fleet Foxes

Crack-Up

Vince Staples

Big Fish Theory

A Spoon Baker’s Dozen: The Texan Connections Of Julian Cope

As Spoon hit the UK their vocalist and founder Britt Daniel guides Charles Ubaghs through his 13 favourite albums, from Public Enemy to Miles Davis, the raw emotion of Cat Power and strange idol Julian Cope

Jeff Tweedy

Together At Last

Malcolm Lowry’s Under The Volcano – The First Great Addiction Memoir

Under the Volcano was written as a novel, but it told deep truths about addiction, says Jeremy Allen, in an age before it was expected that a memoir of excess should end with recovery

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For June Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan looks at the best heavy metal released during June

Funky Chimes

various artists

Identity Techno: Umfang Interviewed

Following the release of her debut album proper, Discwoman co-founder Umfang discusses her minimal approach to hardware, being a part of Discwoman and challenging one's own prejudices. Photo by Tyler Jones

To The Things Themselves: The Strange World Of… Wolfgang Voigt

Following the return of his ground-breaking ambient techno Gas project with Narkopop after a seventeen-year hiatus and a renewed live presence, Wolfgang Voigt speaks to Maria Perevedentseva about three decades of collapsing the boundaries between the minimal and the maximal, and the popular and the esoteric

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For June

Tristan Bath chooses the best tape releases you should be spending your pocket money on this June. Kill Alters photograph courtesy of Kevin McGee

Electric Dreams: An Interview With Haroon Mirza

British sound artist Haroon Mirza takes over a former U-Boat base on the French Atlantic coast

Do You Dream In Colour? Tal R In Copenhagen

At the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, in Copenhagen, Tal R's paintings and sculptures exhibit something of the emotive non-verbal power of late Rothko

Read An Extract From Rock In A Hard Place: Music & Mayhem In The Middle East

Read a hard hitting extract from a new book on heavy metal and hip hop in the Middle East, concerning the fate of several metalheads who tried to keep the Syrian scene alive, despite tremendous odds against them doing so