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Gold Gold Gold Gold Fire Fire Fire Fire: Douglas McCarthy’s Favourite LPs

As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more

The Sword

Warp Riders

Leave The Capitol: The Weird Tales Of Arthur Machen

In a Hallowe'en special, we step sideways into the weird world of Arthur Machen, Mark E. Smith's favourite horror writer

Beat Codes: Spoek Mathambo’s Favourite Albums

Spoek Mathambo gives Lior Phillips a tour of his record collection, crossing continents between the music of his South African homeland, American rap, and British new wave

Bat For Lashes: New Album Details

The Haunted Man for release in October

Addicted To Serendipity: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts’ Baker’s Dozen

As the Cumbrian quartet prepare to release their "'fuck you' to adulthood", Boy King, their singer and guitarist takes us through 13 LPs that shaped it, including Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter and Oneohtrix Point Never

James Holden Returns With First Studio Album In Five Years

'Imagine This Is A High Dimensional Space Of All Possibilities' is out in March

Chris Watson

El Tren Fantasma

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March Reviewed By Kez Whelan

From My Dying Bride to Tombs via a new one by Body Count, Kez Whelan is back with all of your heavy metal album reviews for March

Ghostpoet

Some Say I So I Say Light

Different Trains 1947 At The Barbican To Feature Actress And More

Actress, These New Puritans' Jack Barnett and more will feature as part of an upcoming series of audiovisual concerts at the Barbican and other venues

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

Colin Stetson To Play ‘Hereditary’ Score Live At London’s Barbican

The saxophonist will perform pieces from his soundtrack to the horror film alongside the London Contemporary Orchestra

Everything’s Connected: Omar Rodríguez-López Favourite LPs

Former At The Drive In and Mars Volta member Omar Rodríguez-López speaks to Stevie Chick about the records that shaped his life, from Latin traditionals to how Janet Jackson got him into punk

Met Police Deny Fabric Closure Was Revenge

Islington Police Commander denies accusations that move to close the club were revenge for past disputes

Happy Hands Grasping: A Record Store Day Diary By Drift, Totnes

While most of us have a good idea of what Record Store Day is like from the shop floor, what's the experience for those behind the tills? We asked Rupert Morrison, owner of the excellent Drift Record Shop in Totnes, Devon, to give us the view from the counter