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LISTEN: The Silence Preview Debut Album

Stream a track from the self-titled debut album by The Silence, featuring members of the now defunct Japanese experimental rock group Ghost

Sarabeth Tucek

Get Well Soon

Cathedral

Guessing Game

If Only You Knew: Grime & Drill For September Reviewed By Aaron Bishop

Aaron Bishop selects his top picks from the UK rap scene including returns for Bugzy Malone and Nines, and heat from Hardy Caprio, Skepta, Octavian and more

Pursuing The Obel Arts: An Interview With Agnes Obel

As mainland Europe clutches Agnes Obel and her sparse piano songs ever closer to its heart, Wyndham Wallace catches up with the Dane in her adopted home of Berlin...

Savage Pencil On The Underside Of Edwardian Culture

Legendary comic book artist and writer Savage Pencil discusses three Edwardian underground figures: Montague Summers, Austin Osman Spare and Louis Wain

The Healing Scream: Alison Cotton Interviewed

We're delighted that Alison Cotton, one of our artists of the year, has composed a Singularity track for our Sound & Vision subscribers. Here she tells Ned Raggett about new music and how she has processed the trauma of a recent road accident

Paul McCartney Won’t Get Beatles Songs Back From Michael Jackson

Reports suggest late singer sold rights before death

Heldon

Antelast

Richard Pinhas prepares to bow out with an album of pounding drums and phrygian lead guitar lines, finds Aug Stone

Primavera Sound 2010: In Review

Kev Kharas floats twenty feet above Barcelona as the new indie mainstream sinks beneath the power of Wire, Pet Shop Boys, Atlas Sound and the Joker. Primavera picture by Lucy Johnston

Kavus Torabi/Various Artists

The Exquisite Corpse Game

Keeping A Covenant: What we Bring to Springsteen Live, and What he Gives Back

After seeing Bruce Springsteen at Wembley, Michael Hann writes a deeply personal essay about the power of live music, not as redemption or catharsis, but as a unique and potent force that reflects who we are when we encounter it

The Quietus Hour Episode Ten: New Music Radio With John & Luke

Luke Turner and John Doran are back with another instalment of their weekly radio show that brings you the best in new music and also features that kind of gibberish that would have seen them incarcerated in more civilised times

Kraftwerk Remixes Collection To Be Released On Vinyl

The 3xLP set includes archive remixes by Orbital, Underground Resistance and more

The Eyes Have It: Exploring The Cosmic With Drum Eyes

DJ Scotch Egg - also known as Shige - has left his day job behind to focus on his wonderfully warped Drum Eyes project. He talks to Simon Jay Catling and Luke Turner about his new album _Gira Gira_

INTERVIEW: Mogwai On Atomic

Ahead of the live soundtrack performance to Atomic at The Barbican tonight, Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite and Barry Burns of Mogwai speak to Luke Turner about their loathing for nuclear weapons