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Her debut album of hard-edged, techno-shaded rattlers was one of our favourites of last year. Before she heads to CTM, Natalia Zamilska talks to Luke Turner about meshing together African music and Emily Brontë, the political aspects of her work and seeking diversity in Poland's music scene
This week, the seminal Washington trio released their first album in a decade. In an in-depth interview, drummer Janet Weiss tells Emily Mackay about No Cities To Love's genesis, being figureheads to a new generation of riot grrrl-inspired bands and being a part of the feminist conversation. Photographs courtesy of Brigitte Sire
The Chicago post-punk band released their new album, Irreal, this week. Before they come to the UK next month, Robert McCallum talks to their frontman Brian Case about the record, reinterpreting Bowie and the importance of maintaining forward momentum
Last year, Laura Cannell released her debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, which found the fiddle and recorder player drawing on medieval music for her improvisational compositions. She tells Danny Riley about recording in churches and finding kindred spirits in fellow Early Music fans Bass Clef and Charles Hayward in their Oscilanz project
Elena Dolcini speaks to the editor of the first volume of the Social Life of The Record series — Everybody Knows This is Nowhere — the companion publication an exhibition exploring the relationship between art and music and geography, particularly focused on New Zealand identity about desperation, dislocation, Neil Young and the perils of immediacy