Quest For Fire

Lost Girls

Selvutsletter

With their second LP as Lost Girls, Jenny Hval and Håvard Volden somehow distill the magic of their long-form excursions into indelible, avant-pop nuggets, says Bernie Brooks

Goodbye Girls, Hello Heaven? To Nicola Roberts By Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat went along to Girls Aloud's last-ever Glasgow gig and was so moved by the experience that he penned a letter to Nicola Roberts. The Quietus is his postman, and you can read his perfumed billet-doux below

Sónar Celebrate 25 Years With Radio Transmissions

Autechre, Holly Herndon and Nina Kraviz will all contribute to a series of transmissions into space to celebrate 25 years of Spanish festival Sónar

Rockfort: Your French Music Roundup For March & April

Inspired by Greek myths, astronomers and the restful breath: an embarrassment of riches from France, selected by David McKenna. Includes: Aquaserge, Freeze Corleone and a deep love for Maria Callas

Licence To Sing: Afrodeutsche’s Favourite Albums

From a childhood spent dancing to Top Of The Pops, a complicated relationship with Michael Jackson and the tragic loss of her tape collection, Afrodeutsche takes Manu Ekanayake through the thirteen albums that changed her life

Manic Street Preachers

Journal For Plague Lovers

Songs Are Syringes: Kristin Hersh On Her Favourite Tracks

Throwing Muses are releasing Purgatory/Paradise, their first album in a decade, so Kristin Hersh met up with John Doran to discuss her favourite records (not albums)

Chemical Brothers

Born In The Echoes

Pieces Of Life: Gaspar Noé’s Favourite Films

On the release of his new film Vortex, Gaspar Noé takes Patrick Clarke through an intense and adventurous Baker's Dozen of favourite films, and the lessons they've taught him on the extent of human cruelty and the joy of shocking an audience

Super Sonics: Lisa Meyer’s Bakers Dozen

From bar room brawls at SXSW to seeing giant legs of ham being smashed onstage in Barcelona, artistic director of Capsule and founder of Britain's best underground music festival Supersonic, Lisa Meyer, takes Stephanie Phillips through the records that have shaped her

Inner Ear: Bulgarian Music For February Reviewed By Jakub Knera

Jakub Knera’s survey of the scenes of Central and Eastern Europe returns, with this edition exploring the drones, darkness and beauty of the Bulgarian underground

WATCH: New Mario Batkovic Video

Accordion player is captured playing his instrument live in video for new track; watch below. Homepage photo courtesy of Patrick Principe

Languages Inhabited: Teju Cole’s Favourite Albums

Following the publication of his first collection of essays, Known And Strange Things, the writer and photographer pens us his own Baker's Dozen, picking "as many kinds of albums that really mattered to me as possible"

Anthems: Laibach’s Favourite Albums

As the musical wing of Slovenia's NSK collective continue their tour presenting songs from The Sound Of Music, the group's Ivan Novak gets licence to pick 13 albums that inspired them prior to forming Laibach

Escape To The Country: Willy Vlautin Of Richmond Fontaine’s Favourite LPs

Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism

Lucy Remixes Caterina Barbieri & More For Stroboscopic Artefacts

The Italian DJ and producer has remixed four classic tracks from his label's back catalogue