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My Country Needs Me: on Sons Of Kemet’s Your Queen Is A Reptile

By celebrating great black women across history, by crowning Angela Davis, Harriet Tubman, Albertina Sisulu and Doreen Lawrence, Sons Of Kemet begin a new myth-making and bring afrofuturism down to earth with a beautiful bang. By Teju Adeleye

The Drones

Havilah

Jockstrap Share New Track, ‘Concrete Over Water’

It's a prelude to their forthcoming debut album on Rough Trade

Complete Communion: The Best Of 2020 In Jazz

Despite a raging pandemic that silenced the stages that jazz requires to thrive and develop, 2020 still produced loads of remarkable music, including albums from Nate Wooley, Susan Alcorn, and Ambrose Akinmusire

Electronic Explorations Goes Warehouse

OOOF! Rob Booth's excellent, long-running podcast series puts together a series of mixes celebrating the joys of a good old-fashioned knees-up in a grubby industrial space

DOWNLOAD: Jeremiah Jae – Bad Jokes

Part Flying Lotus-produced mixtape from new Warp signee

Alice Cooper

Back catalogue reissues

Rough Trade Books!

After four decades of releasing records, Rough Trade expand into publishing

Bristol Promoters Crowdfund For New Venue

The team behind Bristol club night Dirtytalk need help funding a vital new music and arts venue in the city

Mastodon

Hushed and Grim

More personal, and more melodic than ever before, Mastodon remain as brutal as ever, finds Jeremy Allen

LIVE REPORT: Seven That Spells/ANTA

Joe Banks witnesses magic in a context of modesty at The Shacklewell Arms

Spectacles Book Launch In London Tomorrow Night

LISTEN: Botanist – Callistemon

New track from the San Franciscan metal outfit's upcoming VI: Flora LP

Peder Mannerfelt

The Swedish Congo Record

PREMIERE: Paddywak Share ‘Strappin’ It On’

It's the lead track from the London trio's forthcoming EP, 'Spacey Daisy'

‘A Hauntological Last Hurrah’: Robin The Fog Interviewed

In response to massive cuts to the BBC World Service, studio manager Robin The Fog took to the corridors and studios of its now-former home, Bush House, with recording equipment in hand. He speaks to Laurie Tuffrey about the resulting album, and the importance of the World Service