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Sufjan Stevens’ Open Letter To Miley Cyrus

Stevens: "Surely you’ve heard of Present Perfect Continuous Tense"

Unspoilt By Progress: A Conversation With Black Swan Composer Clint Mansell

While Black Swan cleans up at the box office, soundtrack composer Clint Mansell sits down to tell Kiran Acharya about art, Aronofsky, post rock and Public Enemy

Win A Date With Pavement In Ikea

Brighten the corners of your living room with a flat-pack date with member of Malkmus' crew

Tony Allen Has Died, Aged 79

The pioneering Afrobeat drummer died on Thursday (April 30)

Prince’s Memoirs To Be Published

Unfinished memoirs written by Prince will feature in a new biography

Rope Ladders From Heaven: William Doyle’s Favourite Records

Ahead of his excellent latest album, Great Spans of Muddy Time, William Doyle - fka East India Youth, whose debut EP was first ever record released on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation - talks us through his Baker’s Dozen. William Doyle photo by Ryan MacPhail

Serious Vibe: Dave Okumu Of The Invisible’s Favourite Albums

Before he plays Convergence festival, the prolific singer and guitarist speaks to Danny Riley about the albums that have shaped his musical life, including D'Angelo, Aphex Twin and "diminutive funk goblin" Prince

TOMORROW: Comanechi In London

London punks to play the Lexington tomorrow night

LISTEN: New Music From Sleaford Mods’ Andrew Fearn

One-half of Sleaford Mods shares a new track called ‘Gnome’ under his Extnddntwrk alias

Field Day 2010: Mouse On Mars On Pimping Your (Bike) Ride

This Saturday, Mouse On Mars headline the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at the Field Day Festival in Victoria Park, London. To kick off a week of special content, we talk to Jan St. Werner about a teenage obsession with cycling

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Romaplasm

Will Wiesenfeld finds himself more contemplative than reflective, with some of the loveliest excursions Baths have taken to date. By Matthew Neale

“Music In Which To Get Truly Lost”: Daniel Avery’s Favourite Records

The Phantasy producer and DJ goes from mid-teen discoveries to recent acquisitions as he writes us his own Baker's Dozen of top albums, EPs and mixes ahead of his b2b set with Erol Alkan at fabric later this month

Prole Art Treat: East Man Selects 13 Visionary Releases

From Kate Bush and The Fall to Mobb Deep and Vybz Kartel, Anthoney Hart, the man behind Basic Rhythm, Imaginary Forces and most recently, East Man, selects the 13 albums that helped steer his art

Chris & Cosey To Play The ICA

Factory Floor also on the bill at Cosey Club

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WATCH: Martin Carr – Mainstream

Former Boo Radleys frontman debuts video for new single Mainstream, out this week and taken from recent album The Breaks