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Want 13: Rufus Wainwright’s Favourite Music

Ahead of the release of his new album Rufus Wainwright guides Barnaby Smith through his favourite music, from Leonard Cohen to Eurythmics and his abiding love of opera

The Lay Of The Land: An Interview With Hwyl Nofio

Steve Parry's latest album as Hwyl Nofio finds him exploring personal and collective histories in his home region of South Wales. He speaks with Kevin Mccaighy about the rise and fall of industry and wandering the valleys with a field recorder

Remembering Kay Carroll Of The Fall

Fergal Kinney speaks to Marc Riley, Una Baines, Martin Bramah, Paul and Steve Hanley, Elena Poulou, Liz Naylor, John Robb and Geoff Travis to get a sense of just how important Kay Carroll was to the development of The Fall

LISTEN: Stream Adrian Utley’s In C In Full

Exclusive stream of the album; plus, we talk to the Portishead member about recording Terry Riley's seminal piece with his Guitar Orchestra

Incubate: Carter Tutti Void, Container & More

Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, God Is An Astronaut and King Buzzo among new additions

SoundCloud Edits Controversial Contract

A clause in SoundCloud's new monetisation programme saying that users couldn't sue the company has been removed

Human Voices: Carola Dibbell Interviewed

Eric Obenauf, publisher and editor at the excellent Two Dollar Radio, talks to rightly-celebrated rock critic, writer and — as of this month — novelist, Carola Dibbell about being an out "women's libber" in the male-dominated 70s music-writing scene, the potential for stream-crossing in music criticism and fiction and, of course, her debut novel The Only Ones. (Artwork by Greg Skrtic)

A Demon In The Drift: Kate Bush Interviewed

To mark Kate Bush's return to live performance, we're republishing this interview, originally posted in 2011, where John Doran talked to one of the UK's most indomitable and peerless artists about her then-new album 50 Words For Snow

Marcus Hamblett

Concrete

Matthew Edwards And The Unfortunates

The Fates