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No Jacket Required: Aidan Moffat’s Inspirational Album Art

L.Pierre is just about to release his final record - and crucially it doesn't come with a sleeve. Aidan Moffat takes this opportunity to write about what he does like in album art... **Contains images that are NSFW**

Complete Communion: Jazz Reviews For April By Stewart Smith

With the dub-funk & tritium guitars of Harriet Tubman, Joshua Abram’s shimmering, kinetic trance, not to mention one of the albums of the year, Matt Mitchell’s Førâge - here's Stewart Smith with the jazz

Just Like A Dream: The Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Revisited

Ned Raggett slips back 30 years in time to reassess the double album The Cure released when they were first making footholds in America

Film As Surface: Elizabeth McAlpine’s Light Reading

At Elizabeth McAlpine's solo show at Laura Bartlett Gallery, Robert Barry discovers an exploration of the materiality of the cinematogaph

A Chance To Cut: The Ends Of Collage

Inspired by the present show at Luxembourg & Dayan curated by Yuval Etgar, Craft/Work explores the past, present, and futures of cut and paste as style and idea

Leaving La La Land: A Radical History Of The Musical Film

With Damon Chazelle’s La La Land released on DVD at the end of the month, we shouldn’t let its toxic reading of musical film history obscure the form’s politically radical manifestations, argues Joel White

Alex Macpherson On Kendrick Lamar’s DAMN.

Following the release of Kendrick Lamar's fourth album, Alex Macpherson takes a look at where the record sits in his discography and what it tells us about the rapper's progression

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For April By Louise Brown

Louise Brown saddles up and rides her warhorse into Metalville, lancing mighty releases by Solstafir, Sabbath Assembly and Royal Thunder as she gallops. Aiiieeeeeeeeeeeee!

Experimentalism Wrapped Around Pop: Barry Adamson’s Favourite LPs

Post punk polymath Barry Adamson guides Julian Marszalek around his favourite albums, from Baker's Staples like Iggy Pop and can to the Wu-Tang Clan, Ornette Coleman and Micachu. Photo by Jone Reed

Repeating, Shouting, Pointing: Fixmer/McCarthy Interviewed

As Terence Fixmer and Douglas McCarthy ex of Nitzer Ebb prepare to bring their full-throttling collaboration Fixmer/McCarthy to the UK this weekend, Luke Turner dropped them a line to find out their dirty little secrets

Pop For The Politically Disillusioned: Charlotte Church Live

There's a club if you'd like to go... you might end up singing a mash up of Faithless, Fat Boy Slim and Snap along with a leftwing Welsh pop & opera singer and forget that the world's ending, says Daniel Dylan Wray

Bits & Pieces: Angus Batey On The History Of Cut And Paste

With its roots in both the avant garde and novelty music, cut & paste came of age in 1987 with the likes of Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, Coldcut, Steinski, Bomb The Bass and M/A/R/R/S. Angus Batey traces the history of this magpie movement

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Doctor Who Season Ten: The Pilot, Reviewed By John Tatlock

Doctor Who shakes off the ponderous bloat of recent years, and emerges lean, sharp and strange, says John Tatlock

Kiss Me Deadly: David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Remembered

To coincide with the release of Mulholland Drive's 4K restoration, Robert Bright looks back at Lynch's masterpiece through the lens of film noir and the city of Los Angeles itself

No More Complex Pleasure Than Thought: Lina Hermsdorf

Alice Woodhouse explores the fictional worlds of Lina Hemsdorf, both offline – at Stoke Newington's Rowing Gallery – and on

Why Live Music On British TV Needs More Than Just Jools

With the 50th series of Later... with Jools Holland underway, TV is in dire need of more than just boogie woogie, says Michael Hann

Christian Eede On Actress’ AZD

In Darren Cunningham's fifth album as Actress, following a period in which many thought he had retired the project, Christian Eede finds the producer sounding refreshed and more open than ever before

In A Trance: Truss & Tessela’s Overmono Interviewed

Tessela and Truss discuss their unorthodox approach to sampling, as well as their relationship with techno, following the release of the brothers' second collaborative EP as Overmono

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Let The Dancers Inherit The Party

“Time Doesn’t Feel Like A Linear Progression” – Moor Mother Interviewed

Ahead of her OFF festival performance in Poland this Summer, Moor Mother tells Liz Aubrey about making music in the moment, fighting gentrification and finding her own path through history

Beyond The Horizon: Yossarians Interviewed

The frontman of the intensely driven Yossarians tells all to Patrick Clarke ahead of a rare, and 'hernia-inducing' live set at this weekend's Fat Out Festival

Music As Mountain Railroad: Jeb Loy Nichols’ Favourite Records

Musician and crate-digger extraordinaire Jeb Loy Nichols tells the stories behind the stops on his musical railroad, from a deep friendship with Adrian Sherwood and the heroes of Muscle Shoals that led to a love of bluegrass, country, reggae and soul

Learning To Love Stereo: Hearing The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s With New Ears

Pete Paphides goes to Abbey Road to listen to the new anniversary edition of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and marvels at the charge of the "psychedelic light brigade" that is hearing the tweaked versions of songs

Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed

As Ray Davies prepares for the launch of the next phase of his colossal Americana project, Patrick Clarke speaks to the Kinks frontman on America, Britain, and why he's never voted.

“The Band Moves As Slowly As The Riffs” – An Interview With Khünnt

Not just a rude-sounding name and a vital umlaut, this Newcastle band make some of the most elephantine ultra-sludge noise metal you’ll hear. They’re playing a rare gig at Desertfest soon, too. Noel Gardner has a word

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1 Thing: April’s R&B Reviewed By Tara Joshi

What exactly do we categorise as R&B in 2017? Tara Joshi considers the expansion of the genre, alongside some of the best releases from the past two months

Gluttonous Maximus: Lone Taxidermist Get Wet & Messy In Manchester

Natalie Sharp, aka Lone Taxidermist, is bringing a hellish & surreal vision of cake sitting, giant cream squirting vaginas and luxurious pop to Manchester this weekend...