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‘The Picture Of Contented New Wealth’ Released As Audiobook

Hear the horror novel read convincingly by an urbane gent who sounds like he may have a favourite axe

Sense Of Absurdity: Jonathan Higgs Of Everything Everything’s Favourite Albums

The Manchester indie band's frontman gives Christopher Sanders a tour of the formative records of his teenage years, and explains why they, along with Australia's longest-running soap opera, have made a lasting impression

Spoon Detail New Album, ‘Lucifer On The Sofa’

The band's 10th studio album is out in February

LISTEN: New Dean Blunt And Arca

Dean Blunt's Babyfather teams up with Arca on production of the former's new track; listen below

Future Islands

In Evening Air

John Cale To Perform The Velvet Underground & Nico Live

Cale marks 50th anniversary of the classic's album release with plans to perform it in full twice more next year

Horns Up Ya Shitters! August’s Best Metal Reviewed

What is as good as Behemoth, asks Toby Cook. Not much, but anything close is reviewed in Columnus Metallicus this month

Soundway To Release Batida LP

Batida is the first contemporary artist album to be released by the excellent Soundway label

Shirley Collins Reading At Sutton House

Shirley Collins will be in conversation and reading from her memoir at Hackney's Sutton House next month

Nurses

Apple's Acre

Brood Ma

Daze

Out There: Flying Saucer Attack’s Debut LP, 20 Years On

Nick Talbot of Gravenhust celebrates the Bristolian lo-fi brilliance of early Flying Saucer Attack

Talking Away: A-Ha On The Making Of Take On Me

Thirty-five years after a-Ha unveiled their debut, Hunting High & Low, Wyndham Wallace talks to the band about their life as young, starving artists, Hendrix’ ‘Hey Joe’, understanding three dimensional space, and the quest for the perfect ‘Take On Me’…

Blanck Mass London Gig Tomorrow Night

At The Nest, Nik Colk Void also on

Jarvis Cocker To Play Small UK Shows

Jarvis Cocker and his band will play a series of mysterious small shows in the UK later this month

An Electrical Storm: Erol Alkan’s 13 Favourite Albums

DJ and producer Erol Alkan has dug deeper than most when it comes to turning up gems for his genre-spanning club sets. He talks us through a suitably eclectic 13 favourite albums selection