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Running Out Of Steam: Andy Mackay Of Roxy Music On Siren

David Chiu talks to the Roxy horn player and looks back at the legendary group’s highly ­regarded fifth record as it turns 45

WATCH: GNOD & Faust Live At Cafe Oto

Franco-Anglo-Spanish-Germanic out rock collaboration in Hackney captured on film. PLUS: GNOD to play greatest hits set at Rocket 20, voted for by fans

If This Is Heaven I’m Bailing Out: The Death Of The Birthday Party

Amid a whirlwind of drug use, chaotic live shows and within-band animosity, The Birthday Party juddered to a halt in 1983. Daniel Dylan Wray traces the story of the band's messy dissolution, and of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' phoenix-like emergence the following year with From Her To Eternity. Interviews with Mick Harvey, Flood, Jim Thirlwell, Barry Adamson, Nick Launey, Chris Bohn, Henry Rollins, Jessamy Calkin and Hugo Race

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

LIVE REPORT: Pentagram

Heading to The Garage in Islington, London, Tristan Bath enjoys a night with the "street Sabbath"

Benee

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The debut album by twenty-year-old pop sensation Benee has something for every playlist, finds Katherine Rodgers

Mario Batkovic

Introspectio

It's an album of accordian music, Jim, but not as we know it…

Fuzzy Logic: A Softer Focus By Claire Rousay

The second Claire Rousay release in as many months feels like a revelation, for Robert Barry

Sunn O))) Release Live Bootlegs

Drone heavyweights Sunn O))) have just launched a new Bandcamp to compile fan-recorded bootlegs of their live shows

Tony Allen’s 2009 Album ‘Secret Agent’ Set For Reissue

The record has been newly remastered for the updated release

Son Zept

Northern Ireland's Son Zept re-synthesises electronic music history into an electrifying machine for transforming the present, finds Stevie Lennox

Do You Want To Be In The Smashing Pumpkins?

Can you play an instrument? Could you put up with Billy Corgan? If the answer to these questions is yes, YOU could join the Smashing Pumpkins

Why Radio 3’s Cuts Are Wrong: 550+ Artists & More Sign Letter To The BBC

Hundreds of musicians, curators, academics and more, from Brian Eno to Nitin Sawhney, Shirley Collins to Stewart Lee and Roisin Murphy, sign an open letter to the BBC about their disastrous cuts to their scheduling

Calm Amidst The Storm: Low’s Debut 25 Years On

From ignorant farmers to making one of 2018’s most revered records, Low and producer Kramer talk to Daniel Dylan Wray about the making of I Could Live In Hope, the album that started it all off, ahead of their appearance at this year's Rewire festival in The Hague

The Knife In Collaboration With Mt.Sims & Planningtorock

Tomorrow In A Year

Analogue Magic & Cassette Dreams: An Interview With Bass Clef

Across a raft of cassettes and a number of aliases, Ralph Cumbers - aka Bass Clef - has had a staggeringly productive year. Charlie Frame catches up with the self-professed 'luddite' to chat analogue production, the positive energy of jungle and his recent collaboration with Bristol's Ekoplekz