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SOPHIE is the Focus of Today’s Google Doodle

A video animation featuring her 2018 track 'Immaterial' marks what would have been the late artist's 38th birthday

Trace The Bloodline: Jerry Cantrell Of Alice In Chains’ Favourite Albums

The grunge luminaries' main man picks out the records that put him where he is today

Tales From The Barrelhouse: A James Yorkston Baker’s Dozen

With his new album The Cellardyke Recording And Wassailing Society, featuring contributions from Alexis Taylor, KT Tunstall, The Pictish Trail and more, out this week, the Fife singer-songwriter writes us a special Baker's, cherry-picking favourite tracks from his old Edinburgh club night

Mdou Moctar Launches Crowdfunder To Stay In US Amid Nigerian Coup

The artist and his two band members are raising money for emergency housing and living expenses

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath brings you his monthly roundup of cassette tapes, finding domestic bliss (and terror), purpose-built for self-isolation with a disinfected walkman

Carlos Cipa

All Your Life You Walk

An Alternative Visual Poem: In Praise Of Southcliffe

Brilliant new Channel 4 series Southcliffe is a rare television programme that succeeds in capturing contemporary malaise. Austin Collings writes in praise of a challenging drama

Kneale Before Satan: The Witches Reviewed

Mat Colegate settles down with a glass of hemlock to view the new release of The Witches, a 1966 occult horror film from the pen of cult scribe Nigel Kneale

Looking Inward: Majestic Noise Made In Beautiful Rotten Iran By Sote

The latest album by Iranian-American electronic music producer Sote finds the artist taking a more personal route to the expression of his musical identity, finds Kamyar Salavati

Hen Ogledd Release New Mini-Album, ‘No Wood Accepted’

The six-track release follows 2020's 'Free Humans' LP

Spool’s Out: Your Cassette Tape Roundup For September

Tristan Bath reviews the month’s best new cassette tapes, including a vast compilation from the Iranian underground, some new directions in psychedelic guitar music, plus an experimental transmission from your favourite dystopian soul outfit, Algiers

King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard Announce New Album

The fourth album from King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard to be released this year is out this Friday (November 17)

Cardi B And More For Roskilde 2019

Cardi B, SOPHIE and more have joined the Roskilde line-up

Bandcamp Trans Rights Fundraiser On Friday

In response to recent transphobic statements from Donald Trump’s administration, Bandcamp will be donating all proceeds to the Transgender Law Center this Friday

Geologist & D.S.

A Shaw Deal

Animal Collective's modular man sends his buddy Doug Shaw through a sonic ringer

A Track-By-Track Guide To Beastie Boys’ Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Two weeks before the Beastie Boys release Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Colin McKean gives their eighth studio album the track-by-track treatment