LISTEN: Airbird – ‘Goodnight’

Listen to the first taster from Joel Ford of Ford & Lopatin's new Airbird project

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

Festival Forte Returns

Cabaret Voltaire, Helena Hauff, Ancient Methods and many more to play Portuguese festival this August

Grumbling Fur & More At The Social On Weds

The Grumblings, alongside Pastel Colours and Toy DJs on bill

Memory Tapes New Album Details

Player Piano out in July

Free DRMCNT Tunes You Lucky Clots

Pere Ubu

Elitism For The People 1975 - 1978

New Shining Live DVD

Jon Hopkins Announces New Album Immunity

Fourth LP coming in June; Hopkins to play album launch show at Village Underground

The Month’s Electronic Music: Freaky, Freaky Techno Is What I Like

This month's edition of our electronic music column delves deep into chest-bursting techno and full body ambient, via cassette tapes and tropical storm percussion. Words: Rory Gibb

Akira The Don’s Manga Mixtape And Hoodies

Curiosity, Community, Cacophony: Helm’s Baker’s Dozen

Helm, aka Luke Younger, takes us through the 13 records that shaped his prolific career, from a teenage love of Manic Street Preachers and Therapy? to chance encounters with Bob Tilton and John Luther Adams

Glasvegas To Do Xmas Tour, Talk Album

Jenny Hval & Susanna

Meshes Of Voice

A World Where Everything Is Cool: Joel Gion’s Baker’s Dozen

From carrying a Marvin Gaye cassette in his pocket to reciting the entirety of Easy Rider, and the glory of Psychedelic Brazil to the real Beatles, Joel Gion of the Brian Jonestown Massacre talks to Harry Sword about the 13 records that mean the most to him.