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Our favourite music, country-by-country
This month Gary Suarez ponders the ever-thorny issue of the "institutional disadvantage" facing LGBT rappers, before considering new tapes by DT Blanco, B.I.C. (Bitches Is Crazy), Towkio, Rich Homie Quan and Cities Aviv
Stewart Smith once again takes a long draught from the jazz chalice as his Complete Communion column looks at how Kendrick Lamar is spreading the jazz gospel as he reviews Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Cactus Truck, Alex Ward Quintet and Kit Downes
David McKenna talks to two artists from the French label and publishing house, founder Félicia Atkinson and Alice Dourlen, aka Chicaloyoh, about their new releases, taking influence from Edgar Allan Poe and Georges Bataille and why they are "too weird for most people"
Amy Pettifer returns with her new pop column that this month takes a dizzying sprint from Years & Years to Will Young and Britney Spears and Ciara to Elle Exxe. And lock up your grumpy uncles! What's she got to say about the new PC Music compilation?
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