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Big Dick Energy: On Matthew Barney’s Redoubt

John Quin hides for cover at the Hayward Gallery visiting Matthew Barney’s Redoubt

Jahiliyya Fields

Chance Life

Gazelle Twin And More For Supersonic

Elizabeth Bernholz leads the latest wave of announcements for Birmingham's Supersonic Festival

LISTEN: Oliver Coates – Raimondas Rumsas

First spin of a track from the cello experimentalist's debut album, Towards the blessed islands

Nik Colk Void, Holly Herndon for Wysing

Fifth annual festival of art and music sees a primary focus on women in experimental and electronic music and art

The Favourite Albums Of Cornershop’s Tjinder Singh

Celebrate Cornershop's appearance in our mid-year compilations chart with Tjinder Singh's Baker's Dozen

Nwando Ebizie

The Swan

Todmorden-based Nwando Ebizie thrives on contradiction and paradox, finds Siobhan Kane

A Flash Of White Heat: John Stanier Of Battles’ Favourite Albums

With Battles' new LP La Di Da Di out, the drummer with the highest cymbal in rock takes a journey through hardcore, hip-hop and baroque and reveals his 'never-leave-home-without-it security blanket record' for Kiran Acharya

Alan Wilder Of Recoil & Depeche Mode’s 13 Favourite LPs

As Short Circuit fast approaches, we talk to Alan Wilder about his 13 favourite records, and how they shaped his work in post-Depeche Mode project Recoil

Music Is Not Sport: Nils Frahm’s Favourite Albums

Before he releases his Late Night Tales compilation, the pianist, composer and new classical ("I never liked it, but I'm stuck with it now; give me something cool like 'neo jazz'") pioneer gives Karl Smith a tour of his favourite overlooked records, by musicians "that deserve a little afterglow"

WATCH: Diode & Rick Holland Live Video

Old Man Diode and Rick Holland release a live clip of their track Love Parade

30 Years On: Pixies’ Surfer Rosa Revisited

Surfer Rosa quickly cemented itself as a must-have album. Not surprising, says Michael Hann, given that it's pretty much a classic rock statement