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Panning For Gold: Fimber Bravo’s Favourite Music

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Zakiya Mckenzie speaks to steel pan legend Fimber Bravo about his favourite music, from Aretha Franklin to Stormzy and Johnny Cash; Sun-Ra, Hot Chip and Miles Davis

A New World Every Heartbeat: A Profile Of Tristram Cary

Robert Barry looks at the life and work of Tristram Cary, pioneer of electronic music and composer of the scary bits in _Dr Who_

Warpaint

Warpaint

Roly Porter

Third Law

100% Shock & Awe: Skrillex Blasts Tiny Venue

At Skrillex's tiny London show for Eat Your Own Ears this weekend, dancers and moshers alike were flattened by sonic junk and wave upon wave of bass, "the pitiless God that reigns supreme in the EDM universe". Words John Calvert Pictures: Pete Fallan

The Weirder The Better: Buzz Osborne Of Melvins’ 13 Favourite Records

Melvins founder King Buzzo takes tQ through a list of his thirteen favourite records, from Tom Waits to Butthole Surfers via PiL, Pixies and The Who

Forbidden Games And Beyond: René Clément On DVD

Anthony Nield delves into the eclectic filmography of unfashionable French director René Clément, the subject of four new home entertainment releases. Still from And Hope To Die

Bear Necessities: Gold Panda’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his third album, Good Luck And Do Your Best, Derwin talks to John Freeman about the 13 albums, from Michael Jackson to the Akira soundtrack, that helped shape his Gold Panda project

Lone Taxidermist Tonight

Lone Taxidermist to perform new music for the first time at Sebright Arms tonight

The Time I Went To Eurovision, By Steve Jelbert

As this weekend's Eurovision Song Contest approaches... chapeau! It's free-wheeling Steve Jelbert remembering a trip to the contest of European harmony, and musical dischord

Pere Ubu

Trouble on Big Beat Street

Four years after what was thought to be their last long player, Pere Ubu return with a new line-up and an album inspired by Van Dyke Parks. The cover of an old Osmonds track isn’t the only surprising thing about it, finds Sean Kitching

Some Will Not Sleep: Adam Nevill’s Favourite Horror Short Stories

To mark the Halloween release of his own first collection of short stories, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors, horror novelist and genre aficionado, Adam Nevill, selects a Baker’s Dozen of his favourite short stories from contemporary writers in the field of modern horror. As with Nevill’s 2015 filmic Baker’s Dozen, fans of the genre are going to find an abundance of suggestions to work through on this list. (Written by Adam Nevill, as relayed to Sean Kitching)

Peter Silberman

Impermanence

Doctor Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: A

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon'd for the common LISTENER

Darren Hayman

Home Time

Former Hefner frontman gets back to basics on an album full of lost loves and deft lyrical turns, finds Tom Bolton

DOWNLOAD: New Pheromoans

Plus, video for The Boys Are British from upcoming album Hearts Of Gold