Towards An Unknown Resolution: Bloc Weekend 2015 Reviewed

Bloc Weekend returned to Butlins Minehead last week, for its first festival at the venue since 2011. Rory Gibb and Ed Gillett journeyed out west to report on a weekend of techno-heavy delights, spaced-out cosmic drifts and several killer DJ sets. Photographs by Beth Marsh and Jake Davis

Trashcan Sinatras

Wild Pendulum

Matt Bellamy Fears World Apocalypse

Singer worried about conspiracy theories

Wire To Support Toy

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Nick Cave & Bad Seeds UK/Euro Tour

Are you ready for live?

Jenny Hval Signs To 4AD And Releases New Single, ‘Jupiter’

"When I wrote the music for this song in 2015, it had no lyrics, and I did not understand where it came from," Hval says of the track

Clean On Your Bean: Man With The Magic Soap By Persher

The duo of Jamie Roberts (Blawan) and Arthur Cayzer (Pariah) leave behind the acid froth for some maggoty post-genre techsludge

Anniversary Edition Of Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’ Announced

The limited-edition 7" EP box set comes with a number of special posters and prints

Dolly Parton

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Mr Gardner’s Straight Hedge No. IV: Punk And Hardcore Reviewed

Noel Gardner has returned to educate you in the finest punk and hardcore releases he's recently heard. Live photo courtesy of Frederik Korfix

Tales Of The Uncanny: Sarah Angliss Interviewed

Ahead of her BFI Gothic show, composer, inventor and sound historian Sarah Angliss talks to Stuart Huggett about uncanny presences in music, mechanics and song

Light In The Attic Reveals Anthology of Lou Reed’s Work for Pickwick Records

The compilation collects pop songs written by Reed during his mid-60s stint as a staff songwriter for the record label

Precious Metal: The Body’s I Have Fought Against It, But I Can’t Any Longer

Portland duo Chip King and Lee Buford dig deeper and travel further in pursuit of more extreme, more experimental and more visceral music

LISTEN: Owiny Sigoma Band – Owiny Techno

First listen to shangaan electro-inspired new cut from London/Nairobi collective's upcoming second album

“Living Dyingly” – Christopher Hitchens’s Mortality

Matthew Foster on the late Christopher Hitchens' final book