Reviews

Listening To The Messages: Oumou Sangaré’s Favourite Albums

Malian musician Oumou Sangaré speaks to David McKenna about her favourite music, being discovered by Ali Farka Touré, and collaborating with Alicia Keys and Tony Allen

NTIA Renews Appeal For Hospitality Industry Support

"We have been left again with uncertainty and concern over the details and the exact timeline of when we will be able to open our businesses," a statement shared by the group says

Kamikaze Palm Tree

Mint Chip

Zig-zag rhythms, theatrical post-punk and surreal ballads abound on the second studio album by off-kilter Californians

Thrill Jockey Want You! (To Film Their Show)

Submit your videos of the upcoming TJ anniversary event in London to be made into a mega-collage doc

Baker’s Dozen: UNKLE’S James Lavelle On His 13 Favourite Records

UNKLE’s James Lavelle steps up to the Baker’s Dozen plate to illuminate us on the records that have shaped him and his band’s sound.

Radical Abstraction: Andy Votel On Andrzej Korzynski

In advance of a talk this Friday at the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival at London's Rich Mix, Andy Votel talks to John Doran about the story of Polish film composer and leftfield music pioneer Andrzej Korzynski and his "freer than space jazz" synthesiser music

Heavier Elements: Nicole Dollanganger Interviewed

With her sprawling, cinematic pop belying a lyrical fixation on darker matters, the singer-songwriter talks to Karl Smith about horror and hardcore influences, honest depictions of female sexuality and touring with Grimes

WATCH: Frisk Frugt Live Video

Extraordinary live performance from Quietus favourite

Nas On Hip-Hop: “It’s Dead”

Music tainted by greed, claims rapper

I Live Sweat But I Dream Light Years: Minutemen’s Double Nickels On The Dime at 40

Stewart Smith celebrates working-class creativity, James Joyce, free jazz, hardcore punk, anti-imperialism, and all of the other ingredients that went into Minutemen's double classic

As Simple As Fun: Beth Ditto’s Baker’s Dozen

As she releases new solo album Fake Sugar, Beth Ditto swears & enthuses about 13 favourite records to Louise Brown, taking in the filth of Lil' Kim to David Bowie and the queer punk of Buzzcocks via Missy Elliott and Lauryn Hill

WATCH: Mark Stewart & Jeffrey Lee Pierce

First look at the video for Shame And Pain, also featuring Thurston Moore and Jim Sclavunos, from the new edition of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, Axels And Sockets

Richard Youngs

Belief

Exquisite under-the-counter pop from a playful, melancholy inventor.

Scott Fagan

South Atlantic Blues

Freaky Dancing: Haçienda Fanzine Anthology Published

An anthology of the fanzine Tony Wilson once called 'the most important piece of journalism I’ve read in the last twenty years' is out now

A Clash In The Pan? London Calling Reappraised

As we near the 30th anniversary of The Clash's most famous record, Thom Ward asks if the record has a contemporary resonance beyond being the source of inspiration to Doherty's skiffle merchants