The Twilight Sad

No One Can Ever Know

GIT Awards 2013 Shortlist Revealed

Clinic, Stealing Sheep and Wave Machines among the twelve acts shortlisted for this year's award

Brew Announce Their Closure

Label set to hold closing down sale of all stock; listen to a playlist of Brew's top ten tracks handpicked by label founder Simon Glacken

A British Disaster: Blur’s Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s

Taylor Parkes marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blur's Parklife by exploring the album in the context of the huge changes wrought on British life in the mid to late 90s by Britpop, Blair and the death of Princess Diana. Chips photo by David Moats

“Less Is More In My World”: Nile Rodgers Speaks

Nile Rodgers talks to Helen Donlon about Madonna's dazzling work rate, the still-present racism of the music industry and Keith Richards playing barman in his local

SunnO))) To Play UK Live Dates

Nurse With Wound to support at London date

Mike Paradinas Shares Lost Material

Planet Mu head follows in Aphex Twin's footsteps with a mass SoundCloud dump of old material dating back to 1982

Rudi Zygadlo

Great Western Laymen

WATCH: New Exercise One Video

Low key, slinkily produced electro pop from the Berlin duo

North-South Divide: In Conversation With David Peace & Luke Haines

Stuart Evers speaks to the rock 'n' roll auteur and Faber's superstar author about the role of the outsider, the shadow history of music and mining nostalgia

Jackson Working On Classical Album Before Death

Late singer was working on new material

These New Puritans

Field Of Reeds

Hyperreal: Magnetic Fields Arch Duke Stephin Merritt Interviewed

With his hand on the tiller of _Realism_ – the most caustically satisfying Magnetic Fields album since _69 Love Songs_ – New York’s least excitable raconteur has a few (not exclusively self-chosen) words squeezed out of him by Charlie Ivens

Various Artists

Bangs & Works Vol. 2