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LISTEN: Fantasma – Sefty Belt

First track from collective featuring Spoek Mathambo and DJ Spoko

LISTEN: Guardian Alien/The Cosmic Dead

First in series of split albums on Instructional Media

LISTEN: Mark Lanegan – ‘Floor Of The Ocean’

Listen to the first track to come from Lanegan's new album, set for release in October

WATCH: Maps – You Will Find A Way

New video for Vicissitude track, reissued this week

FESTIVAL REPORT: Visions 2014

Laurie Tuffrey criss-crosses East London and gets knocked sideways by sets from Young Fathers and Songhoy Blues at the festival's second edition

Prince To Release Two New Albums In Sept

Things Learned At: Dockville

Andy Thomas travels to Hamburg to the Sommer Festival at the Kampnagel Theatre and MS Dockville at Wilhelmsburg Island on the Elbe River. Here are some things he learned about naked experimental theatre, radical art, ballet and Thurston Moore being ace. Photos by Pablo Heimplatz

The Knife Announce Split

Band set to break up after forthcoming European tour

Aphex Twin’s Syro Artwork Released

Release date confirmed for September. Plus, head-spinning biography about "celebrated and influential electronic fartist, Richard D. James"

LISTEN: Sunn O))) & Scott Walker

Preview streaming!

LISTEN: Helm Quietus Mix

Ahead of his performance at Atonal, listen to an exclusive mix from London-based noise explorer Luke Younger, aka Helm

Ten Mouth Electron EP Launch Show

Release of Brite Lites/Cut Up Technique marked with gig The Castle Hotel in Manchester this Friday, ahead of Minor Characters event next week

Things Learned At: Haldern Pop

Richard Foster heads to Haldern in Germany for a weekend of pop, panels and Patti. Photos by Damian Leslie.

Swans-Curated Bill At Le Guess Who? Fest

Wire, Savages & Bo Ningen, Xiu Xiu, Prurient and more... Ah, and there's the 24-hour Dronefest. With Stephen O'Malley and William Basinski

LISTEN: Pharmakon – Body Betrays Itself

New album Bestial Burden on the way in October

LISTEN: Kelela, Le1f & P Morris Collab

Give OICU a spin below

Savages & Bo Ningen For Collaboration

Dadaist-inspired "sonic simultaneous poem" Words To The Blind will be out in November, followed by live shows

Incubate: Final Line-Up Announced

Holly Herndon, Gazelle Twin, Deathcrush and more complete this year's bill

LISTEN: New Leonard Cohen Song!

Hear Almost Like The Blues, first track off new LP Popular Problems

WATCH: East India Youth – Hinterland

Final TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER single, due out on 12" in September, gets a video from Dan Tombs

LISTEN: Caribou – Our Love

Title track of new album, on the way in October

WATCH: Saint Saviour – I Remember

First track from forthcoming second album In The Seams

Aphex Twin Announces New Album

...and it's called SYRO

LISTEN: Earthling Society – Tortuga

First play of track from England Have My Bones, out next week

Gwar’s Oderus Urungus Gets Viking Funeral

Stage costume of late frontman Dave Brockie gets a fitting send-off at this weekend's Gwar B-Q

St John Sessions: Holly Herndon & More

Herndon joins Lonnie Holley and Astor on bill for September event

A Space For Ideas: Berlin Atonal, A History & 2014 Preview

Initially founded in 1982, Berlin's Atonal Festival was relaunched last year. Ahead of the 2014 edition, which starts this week, Albert Freeman speaks to the organisers, including Atonal and Tresor founder Dimitri Hegemann, about over three decades of musical innovation in the city

WATCH: British Murder Boys Trailer

Preview for forthcoming DVD of Regis & Surgeon's BMB farewell gig

Aphex Twin Blimp Spotted Over London

Looks like Richard D. James is up to something...

WATCH: Johnny Marr – Easy Money

First single from forthcoming album Playland

LIVE REPORT: Thurston Moore Band

Thurston Moore paid tribute to the Stoke Newington Angry Brigade as he unveiled new songs and a new band (featuring members of MBV, Sonic Youth and Chrome Hoof) at Cafe Oto last night. Words and pictures by Tristan Bath

INTERVIEW: Sharon Van Etten

Following the release of her new album Are We There, James Skinner catches up with the singer-songwriter ahead of her Green Man set tomorrow, her final live date of the summer