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Dan Dylan Wray watches Factory Floor, Marie Davidson and Colin Stetson at MUTEK, and considers the importance of fallibility in electronic music under the monolithic shadow of AI. Amnesia Scanner & Freeka Tet photograph by Vivien Gaumand
In the second instalment of our journey through the global underground, Pedro João Santos delivers a guide to the bold musicians, daring festivals and crucial grassroots collectives that are defining DIY music in Portugal in an era of increasing gentrification, and picks out five key releases
In this month's essay, Jim Gibson unpicks the cultural myths of the idyllic British countryside as he reflects on Duane Hopkins' 2008 film Better Things in the context of his own life in a rural working class community
Big Thief, Lonnie Holley, Lynks, Nadine Shah, Omar Souleyman and others triumph in another excellent instalment of Green Man. Alastair Shuttleworth reports on a weekend that again strengthens its claim to be one of the UK’s best music festivals. All photos by Jan Rijk / dutchpix.com
Featuring members of The Courtneys, Guttersnipe and Hawthonn, Tristwch Y Fenywod are the Welsh-language gothic band set to release one of this year's best debut albums, says Patrick Clarke ahead of their appearance at Supersonic in Birmingham
Ahead of new album Ritual and a headline set at this weekend's Green Man, Jon Hopkins takes Elizabeth Aubrey through an eclectic Baker's Dozen spanning adolescent favourites, ambient rarities, gifts from the algorithm and the soundtracks to his travels across the globe
This month, Bužinel salutes the anonymous YouTubers uploading the rarities from their personal vinyl collections, and presents his top ten picks from July and August, including new releases from Pavel Milyakov, Hassan Abou Alam, and CCL & Ciel