All Latest

Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed

Ahead of its release next week, composer Cliff Martinez talks about his work soundtracking Nicolas Winding Refn's lurid fashion fantasia, The Neon Demon

Lead Review: Lauretta Charlton On Blood Orange’s Freetown Sound

In Dev Hynes' third album as Blood Orange, Lauretta Charlton finds the adoptive New Yorker in fine cosmopolitan form, the free-flowing quality of his music celebrating a parallel sense of fluid identity and of freedom to be — to construct our own selves, in whichever way we choose

Full Clip: Hip Hop Albums/Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

On the auspicious occasion of a hip hop classic’s big boy birthday, our American rap know-it-all, Gary Suarez crunches the numbers before delving into the month’s releases of note

Umberto

Alienation

ICH BIN EIN EUROPEAN: Bill Drummond Stands With A Romanian Gypsy Band

A week after Britain voted to leave the EU and the national mood darkened with racism, Bill Drummond has sent us this communiqué and short film of an action undertaken in Birmingham with a Romanian gypsy band. Text by Bill Drummond, photography by Tracey Moberly

Grace Jones

Warm Leatherette (Reissue)

Collaboration Elaboration: RM Hubbert’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his new album, Telling The Trees, the Glaswegian singer-songwriter talks Nicola Meighan through his 13 top records by artists he's worked with over the course of his musical career

Where’s The Urgency? An Interview With Porest’s Mark Gergis

With his first album under the Porest name in ten years, Mark Gergis draws on years of recordings made across Syria for his own take on pop music. He tells Yousif Nur about making a "tragicomedy told in song and sound"

Hope And Repulsion: The Quietus At Field Day 2016

Braving the mud for the festival's tenth anniversary — and with performances from PJ Harvey, Holly Herndon, Skepta and Fat White Family — Luke Turner, Lottie Brazier, William Doyle, Laurie Tuffrey, Emily Mackay, Glen Mcleod, Christian Eede and Julian Marszalek get stuck in to one of the UK's most varied and exciting festival bills. (Photographs by Valerio Berdini)

The Strange World Of… David Toop

David Toop offers ten points of entry into his extensive body of work and along the way talks to Karen Shook about Australian bird song, Scott Walker, neoliberalism, Snape Maltings’ bats, Brian Eno and much more besides

Aleksi Perälä

The Colundi Sequence Vol.1

We Rule The School – Belle & Sebastian And Indie’s Troubling Cult Of Childhood

As Belle and Sebastian perform their first two albums at the Royal Albert Hall, Fergal Kinney examines indie’s long standing infatuation with all things adolescent, taking covering C86, twee, Orange Juice and the Smiths

Columnfortably Numb: July In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

JR Moores finds comfort in an international selection of psych-rock releases before the UK fully isolates itself and then outlaws all music that isn't made by decent, ordinary, real, hardworking people like Olly Murs

Please Find An Alternative Entrance: Performance At The Switch House

On the opening weekend of the new Tate Modern Switch House, Bryony White watches performances by Tania Bruguera, Marina Abramovic, Ana Lupas, and more

War Of The Certain: John Higgs Interviewed

The KLF, the cult of the individual and the bollocks of neoliberalism are all up for discussion alongside Robert Anton Wilson, multiple model agnosticism, and a sincere optimism about the upcoming generation when Ben Graham meets with author John Higgs

Home Is Where It Hurts: Mona Hatoum At Tate Modern

At the Tate Modern, Bella Gladman finds the work of Mona Hatoum both intimate and discomforting

Injustice For All: Rob Zombie’s Halloween Remembered

Richard Hirst reappraises Rob Zombie's reviled remake of the John Carpenter horror classic

Out Of Control: Rum Music For June Reviewed By Russell Cuzner

While rounding up the darkest and brightest of recent releases from Nurse With Wound, Norman Westerberg and Maja S.K. Ratkje, Russell Cuzner receives an unexpected message that calls control into question, asking what role it plays not only in composing and playing, but also in listening... Nurse With Wound live shots by Samantha Hayley

“Europe Needs English Tea”: The EU Referendum And The Arts

With the UK’s referendum over EU membership coming up on Thursday, artists and curators express their thoughts and feelings about Europe, the Union, and the prospects for Brexit.

Lead Review: Karl Smith On Jambinai’s A Hermitage

In Korean post-rock trio Jambinai's latest offering, Karl Smith finds both a powerful hope for the future of a stagnating genre and a worthwhile exploration of our modern malice and malaise

SHXCXCHCXSH

SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs

Necro Deathmort

The Capsule

Nesting Behaviour: An Interview With Mothers

With the Athens, Georgia band's debut, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, Kristine Leschper's candid songs have become full-blown genre-hopping indie. They tell Luke Cartledge about the evolution

About The Heart: Greg Fox Of Guardian Alien’s Favourite Albums

Before he takes part in no fewer than three performances at Roskilde festival next week, the Guardian Alien drummer, Liturgy man and prolific collaborator guides Tristan Bath through his top 13 records

Driftmachine

Colliding Contours

Spool’s Out: June’s Cassettes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

King of the magnetic tape, Tristan Bath carries on in his quest to bring you the best underground music from around the globe and in doing so discovers his best cassette ever

The Journey & The Destination: An Interview With Hawthonn

The Leeds duo combine folk with electronics, geographical data with fox-bone rattle to create haunted dreamworlds of sound. Following a new release, Sea-Spiral Spirit, they unravel their unique processes with Russell Cuzner

Download 2016: Peace, Love and Babymetal

JR Moores is pleased to discover a Download Festival crowd in awe to the thrash/pop mash-up of The Fox God's disciples. All opinions contained herein are the author's own... especially those concerning wrasslin'

The Strange World Of… Prince’s Minneapolis

Lifelong fan John Freeman travels to Minneapolis to visit the places that made Prince the city’s most iconic artist. All photographs by the author/ Captain Randy

An Event Not An Appearance: Bridget Riley, Venice And Beyond

Amongst the hypnotic straight lines of Sheffield Graves Gallery’s Bridget Riley show, Sam Gregory finds an innovative response to the city’s straitened circumstances

Behold! June’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With more UK small press, unconventional art, a 50 year work-in-progress and surreal gag cartoons, there’s something for everyone in June’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & co

Swans

The Glowing Man