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With Daniel Jones and James Bulley's new sound installation Living Symphonies opening this weekend in Thetford Forest, Rory Gibb traveled to the duo's studio to discover how they're translating the dynamics of a woodland ecosystem into self-generating orchestral music
As polls predict victory for UKIP in today's European Elections, we explore how, behind the nasty rhetoric that occupies the media, they're a party of rampant neoliberals who, curiously, have failed to oppose EU legislation that gives big business even more power over our daily lives. Dirty Protest headline with thanks and apologies to Stewart Lee.
Ahead of his Village Underground show, American singer-songwriter and producer Jonathan Wilson talks to John Freeman about the creation of "a degree of excellence" on his latest album Fanfare while updating the legacy of his beloved Laurel Canyon
Ahead of his new EP Your Charizmatic Self, the Night Slugs co-founder meets Rory Gibb to discuss thirteen favourite albums, from pioneering R&B production to grime's sonic brutalism and the blossoming influence of labelmate Jam City
Aidan Moffat's wandering tour of Scotland makes it to Glasgow this weekend. He and collaborator of forthcoming film Paul Fegan talk to Nicola Meighan about forthcoming film Where You're Meant To Be, Scottish folk song, and offensive clichés of Scots life