Areeba Siddique

Winning It All: Prince’s Purple Rain Revisited

With news of the great man sadly departing, we remember when Purple Rain got Ned Raggett hot under the collar

Heart-to-Heart: Rufus Isabel Elliot’s Three Sexual Pieces For Violin

Composer Rufus Isabel Elliot writes music of stunning intimacy for violinist Harry Gorski-Brown

Furious Since Birth: Grime, A Novel By Sibylle Berg

The music genre provides a backdrop and a backbeat to a novel by Sibylle Berg about England’s uniquely awful treatment of its own population

Worker’s Playtime: Billy Bragg’s Favourite Albums

To celebrate the release of his notably personal new album Tooth & Nail today, the outspoken, political singer-songwriter talks Colm McAuliffe through his top records

Manchester, So Much To Answer For. A City Accused

Any day now a horde of parka wearing divs will pile out off various National Express coaches clutching new reissues by The Smiths, New Order and the Inspirals, on their way to Uni in Manchester. Let it fucking go already says Austin Collings

Porn To Do It: Erika Lust’s Cinematic Bakers Dozen

Feminist pornographer Erika Lust picks 13 films and TV shows that have influenced her unique approach to the erotic. Slightly NSFW

Tales From The Barrelhouse: A James Yorkston Baker’s Dozen

With his new album The Cellardyke Recording And Wassailing Society, featuring contributions from Alexis Taylor, KT Tunstall, The Pictish Trail and more, out this week, the Fife singer-songwriter writes us a special Baker's, cherry-picking favourite tracks from his old Edinburgh club night

Vinyl Staircase: July In Record Collecting Misery By John Doran

A halo of coffee mugs? An impassable wall made from Kraftwerk box sets? The OST so frightening it can't be listened to in the dark? It can only be the return of Vinyl Staircase - John Doran's melancholy death march through this month's black wax

Nisennenmondai For European Tour

Band set for three UK dates as part of May/June tour

John Grant Details New Album, ‘Boy From Michigan’

Produced by Cate Le Bon, it's out this June

LISTEN: Bill Wells Remixes Babe Track

And the EP is out NOW!

Gary Numan Hits Tour Announced