Raphael Roginski

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with the good, the bad and the ugly in heavy metal for May, featuring new cuts from Panopticon, Grave Miasma and Nadja

Jeremy Allen On Mick Harvey’s Intoxicated Women

In the fourth (and supposedly final) instalment of Mick Harvey's Serge Gainsbourg albums, Jeremy Allen finds a fitting culmination to an unprecedented 22 years of dedication to the deceased French icon – not just a satisfying end, but a promising jumping off point, too

Weird Still Spills: Stella Mozgawa Of Warpaint’s Favourite Albums

The Warpaint drummer and prolific collaborator goes from Pharoah Sanders to Joni Mitchell via Steely Dan, Chaka Khan and Primus in collecting her top 13 albums, choosing those that "had altered the course of my life"

There’s A Certain Satisfaction In A Little Bit Of Pain: Thirty Years of Madonna’s Erotica

30 years on, Matthew Barton explores how Erotica changed the game for mainstream pop stars, an album that traded Madonna’s imperial pop for deep bass, vinyl crackles, chilly house and spoken word

Mai Mai Mai

Πέτρα (Petra) EP

Eccentronic Research Council: London Gig

Band performing 1612 Underture with Maxine Peake in May; new album and cassette label announced

A Moment Alive: Degrees Of Freedom Found By Blue Gene Tyranny Reviewed

Our Man In San Francisco, Ned Raggett, gets to grips with Degrees Of Freedom Found, a six CD collection of material recorded between 1963-2019 and finds a monumental box set

Europe Endless: The America Of Paris, Texas

A recent 4K re-release of Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas offers a perfect moment to look back on the European lens through which the filmmaker views America, finds Tom Tidnam

20 Years On: Snoop Dogg’s Doggystyle Revisited

Angus Batey looks hard at Snoop's now-canonised debut and questions some of its seriously problematic aspects that continue to be ignored by critics and audiences

Start The Riot! Alec Empire’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of Atari Teenage Riot's set at Camden Crawl, the band's founder uses his rundown of favourite albums to issue a clarion call for creativity and puts together a three-hour mix of tracks from his top 13