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No Limits: Jaakko Eino Kalevi’s 13 Favourite Albums

Finland's finest selects a varied mix of metal, jazz, funk, prog and kraut for his Baker's Dozen

An Exchange Of Feelings: Felicia Atkinson’s Baker’s Dozen

Soon to play at Portugal’s Semibreve Festival with Violeta Azevado, Felicia Atkinson guides Alex Rigotti through thirteen eclectic albums that have informed her musical practise the most

Matters Of The Heart: 20 Years On, Is High Fidelity The Best Rom-Com Ever Made?

Despite its disagreeable main characters, Stephen Frears’ record store romp still has plenty to offer for the hopeless romantics of the 2020s. Has there been a better failed and healed love story since? Adam Solomons investigates

Thirteen Prayers: Kamasi Washington’s Favourite Albums

Before he embarks on a summer of touring following his excellent 2015 album The Epic, the saxophonist and bandleader makes some difficult decisions to give Paul Smith 13 albums that affected his musical approach

Polish Music Showcase At Festival

Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival presents line-up of promising new Polish talent

Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin & Je T’aime By Sylvie Simmons

Sylvie Simmons' excellent biography, Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful Of Gitanes is back in print and now available electronically. Here is an extract about the song that made him. Portrait courtesy of Patrick Duval

Playing The (Baker’s) Dozens: George Clinton’s Favourite Albums

With the funk kingpin and founder of Parliament and Funkadelic taking his bands on a festival tour this summer, Suzie McCracken caught up with him to find out about the 13 records that have stuck with him through his lifetime

Beatrice Dillon & Keith Harrison For Next Outlands Tour

The fourth instalment in the ongoing Outlands tour will see Beatrice Dillon team up with Keith Harrison for a series of live gigs

East India Youth Fred Perry Show

Blur's Dave Rowntree assembles a live line-up headlined by East India Youth for Fred Perry Subculture

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Resistance Songs: Mdou Moctar’s Favourite Music

From Van Halen to Ali Farka Touré via Bob Marley, Tinariwen and Oumou Sangaré, Mdou Moctar takes us through the thirteen albums, tracks, artists and styles that made him who he is

Different Folks: Angeline Morrison’s Baker’s Dozen

Angeline Morrison speaks to Jude Rogers about her new album exploring folk songs of Black British experience, and takes her through an eclectic Baker's Dozen including Steeleye Span, Delia Derbyshire and Darondo

The Horrors Detail New Album

The album is out in September

caroline Reveal New Album, ‘caroline 2’

They've also shared the Caroline Polachek-featuring lead single 'Tell me I never knew that'

Song Of The Digital Flesh: Vocal Manipulation & Our Cyborg Selves

The highly charged vocal manipulations of Holly Herndon, Katie Gately (pictured), Burial and The Knife, writes Alex Borkowski, are powerful expressions of our fast-evolving relationships with technology, space and our own bodies

LISTEN: New Melt Yourself Down

Band return with new one-off single preceding album set for release in the new year; listen to the track below