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Why The BBC’s Radio Cuts Are A Disaster For Our Cultural Health

Last week the BBC announced swingeing cuts to its leftfield programming on Radio 3, with Late Junction, Jazz Now and Music Planet hit. Richard Foster argues this is a short-sighted decision with far-reaching consequences

Child’s Play? The Hunger Games Reviewed

Suzanne Collins' young adult fiction is a global phenomenon. Co-scripted by the author and directed by Gary Ross, the big screen adaptation of the first novel in the trilogy opens today and looks set to dominate at the box office. Emily Bick finds out why 'the world will be watching'

25 Years On: Blade’s The Lion Goes From Strength To Strength Revisited

Half a lifetime ago, an Armenian exiled to London set the template for today's DIY musicians and raised a standard that British rap has rarely reached since. Angus Batey had a ring-side seat while Blade fought to make himself heard: he looks back on a landmark in the history of independent music

Harmonia & Eno ’76

Tracks And Traces reissue

LISTEN: New Sasha Siem

Multi-instrumentalist, singer and songwriter announces release of her second album; listen to a track below

React In Kind Or Get The F**k Out: Queer’d Science Interviewed

Manchester's Queer'd Science are fast establishing themselves as one of the UK's most thrilling and visceral bands, a whiplash whirl of barked vocals, alien-chirp guitars and strobing rhythms. The trio meet Simon Jay Catling to discuss how beneath their harsh exterior lies a message of inclusivity

Chicago Building Formely Housing The Warehouse Given Protected Status

A grassroots campaign set up by conservation group Preservation Chicago had called upon Chicago City Council to save it from the threat of demolition

Sleaford Mods Sign To Rough Trade

Pair link with the record label "for the foreseeable future"

Flesh Gore-don: We Are The Flesh Reviewed

Philippa Snow reviews Emiliano Rocha Minter’s transgressive Mexican arthouse shocker We Are The Flesh

Ingrid Plum

Corporeality

Working with the archive of concrete poet and Radiophonic Workshop collaborator Lily Greenham, Ingrid Plum finds high strangeness in the everyday flux of modern life, finds Daryl Worthington

Tape Hiss: Joseph Nechvatal & The History Of Tellus Audio Cassette Magazine

For over forty years, Joseph Nechvatal has been making art out of noise. He talks to Robert Barry about viral symphonies, cassette magazines, and art squats

I Think People Get The Wrong Idea: An Interview With Sightless Pit

Ahead of their debut LP, Grave Of A Dog, Dylan Walker and Lee Buford of Sightless Pit talk to Bernie Brooks about club bangers, small details, Seth Manchester, Skyrim, and more

Celtic Frost To Reform For Wacken Festival?!

Legendary Swiss metallers offered €100,000 to perform at German metal fest in July/August

And It’s Goodbye From Them: British Murder Boys Interviewed

British Murder Boys, the twosome of Regis and Surgeon, are sadly now defunct. Before they both play on the same bill at Bloc this weekend, they talk to Luke Turner about Gene Vincent, the influence of pantomime and channelling the errant daydreams of winos into pummelling techno

Hype Williams Share New Music

Dean Blunt and Inga Copeland's project shares four new tracks