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21st Century Tropicalia Sérgio Dias Baptista Of Os Mutantes On Their Return

The greatest Brazilian band of the 60s - the revolutionary and psychedelic tropicalia outfit Os Mutantes - have returned with a new album. Frances Morgan talks to Sérgio Dias Baptista about its long gestation. Photographs by Nino Andres

Helena Hauff To Release New EP

Helena Hauff makes her full debut on Ninja Tune with a new four-track 12"

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Land of Sleeper

Fourth album from the Newcastle quintet goes hardest when it goes weirdest, finds Daniel Hignell

LIVE REPORT: Frank Ocean

Milton Savage witnesses a triumphant set from Ocean at Brixton Academy, and wonders where contemporary R&B can go following channel ORANGE

Drexciya

Journey Of The Deep Sea Dweller IV

Philosophies Of History Are Rationalisations For Mass Murder: An Interview With John Gray

In advance of his new book, Seven Types of Atheism, John Gray discusses his work  – and settles a few scores – with Michael Brooks, from the errors of Richard Dawkins to the pernicious bullshit of Steven Pinker

Bachwerk: An Interview With Jonny Greenwood

As he launches a new label dedicated to contemporary classical music, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead talks to Patrick Clarke about his passion for classical, why Bach is like Kraftwerk, and the 'gruesome' intersection of prog rock and Rachmaninoff.

Vile Imbeciles Make Back Catalogue Available Digitally

Defunct band make whole back catalogue available on iTunes and Spotify for first time

Model 500

Digital Solutions

He Shares A Lot: Chuck Mosley Interviewed

Jeremy Allen sits down in Paris with Chuck Mosley to talk Faith No More, Cement and second acts

LISTEN: Le1f – ‘Damn Son’

Listen to the first track to emerge from the New York rapper's upcoming new mixtape, released next month

Smut At The Bus Stop & Career Revivals: The Vaselines Interviewed

Ash Dosanjh talks to Eugene Kelly about _Sex With An X_, the first album from Scottish cult heroes The Vaselines in 20 years. Plus: bus stop romances, smutty songs and Kurt Cobain

Hannah Peel & Paraorchestra

The Unfolding

Hannah Peel's collaboration with an ensemble of disabled and non-disabled musicians playing analogue, digital and assistive instruments proves spellbinding for Zara Hedderman

The Legendary Pink Dots

The Gethsemane Option

Howie Reeve & Kumio Kurachi

Double Rainbow

In Fukuoka native Kumio Kurachi, Glasgow's Howie Reeve may finally have found his soul mate, suggest Richard Foster

Overlapping Terrain: Richard Skelton’s Favourite Music

Following the release of his new album LASTGLACIALMAXIMUM, the prolific Richard Skelton speaks to Luke Turner about the music that inspired his own work, from Thomas Tallis to Phuture, Nico to Sly & The Family Stone, The Stooges and Gorecki