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Rum Music for March Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Strings dominate this month’s edition of Rum Music, as Jennifer Lucy Allan presents guitars like galloping stallions, re-tuned fiddles that wallop and croon in equal measure, clattering 1980s Japanese post punk and more 

From Robyn To Janelle Monae: 2010 & The Rise Of The Fembots

In the first of our Wreath Lectures, Sian Rowe looks at the female artists who've used robot aesthetics to transcend feminine norms in pop

Sound and Vision: Imogen Heap On A New Score To A Surreal Classic

Singer, composer and inventive pop songwriter Imogen Heap talks to David Moats about her original sountrack to the classic surrealist short The Seashell and the Clergyman, premiering at the Birds Eye View Film Festival this Friday

The Avalanches To Play Primavera?

Australian group have possibly left an anagram-based clue to hint at live appearance at Primavera Sound

Whistle While You Work: On Music & Toil From Communism To Coldplay

Next time your bellend of a boss tells you to take out your headphones, throw this at him. David Bell interviews Marek Korczynski of the University Of Nottingham about the history and functionality of music in the workplace

Kontakte

We Move Through Negative Spaces

Short Fiction By: Nicholas Rombes

This week's new writing comes in the form of an edited, self-contained extract from Nicholas Rombes' forthcoming novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, in which the eponymous cinephile Laing is interviewed regarding the destruction of a rare film

Stupid & Sophisticated: The Rise & Rise Of The Seven Nation Army Riff

Jeremy Allen gets to grips with the murky origins and the global spread of the 21st century's most famous guitar riff

Field Day Enlists Mary Anne Hobbs To Curate A Stage At 2023 Event

Deena Abdelwahed, Anastasia Kristensen and more will play Hobbs' All Queens takeover

Marching Church

This World Is Not Enough

The Realm Of The Senses: Blow Out And Cutter’s Way At 40

Two films released in 1981 unveil an American system that's irredeemably corrupt: Blow Out and Cutter's Way – one an unabashed thriller, the other a languorous character study, finds Patrick Preziosi

On Coming To Metal In Middle-Age: Neurosis Live At Koko

Tariq Goddard didn't realise that he liked metal until he went to see Neurosis live at Koko and found their "songs of engagement and endurance" chimed with his own advancing years. Photos © Benedetto Manzella for the Heathen Harvest Periodical, 2016

Direct Approach: An Interview With Sink Ya Teeth

Norwich's very best post-punk-dance-duo Sink Ya Teeth speak to Patrick Clarke about their remarkable drive to keep creating, and how they headlined a massive Slovakian festival at one hour's notice.

Shackleton Releases New EP

Shackleton releases a new two-track EP; preview the tracks via the link below

BACK: Nine Inch Nails

Trent Reznor releases a statement revealing that he will be resurrecting the band for a tour this year

Albums Of The Month: Music We’ve Loved This March

From These New Puritans to The Comet Is Coming, Laurel Halo to The Caretaker, this is our favourite music of the last four weeks