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Radio-Activity: Cashmere Radio Berlin

Oobah Butler reports on Berlin's Cashmere Radio, an electronic avant-garde digital radio station broadcasted from a cocktail bar.

An Extract From Psychic Confusion: The Sonic Youth Story

SoundCloud Reportedly Set To Let Fans Pay Artists Directly

The company is considering a system similar to those of Patreon and OnlyFans

Blonde Redhead

Penny Sparkle

Mitchellin Man: Destroyer’s Favourite Albums

Before he releases his new album Poison Season later this month, Destroyer's Dan Bejar places a call to Merek Cooper to talk to him about saxophones, heroin and going through a seven-year Joni Mitchell phase

Escape To The Country: Willy Vlautin Of Richmond Fontaine’s Favourite LPs

Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism

My Pioneers: Santigold’s Favourite Albums

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Santigold takes Tara Joshi through 13 favourite albums from Salt-N-Pepa to the Cocteau Twins, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone and Bad Brains, and points out that while Morrissey might have gone wrong, you can't take away what his songs once gave her

Unsound Krakow 2013: First Names Announced

2013's edition of Krakow's Unsound festival arrives under the theme of INTERFERENCE. Scroll on for a list of the first acts to be announced...

Curiosity, Community, Cacophony: Helm’s Baker’s Dozen

Helm, aka Luke Younger, takes us through the 13 records that shaped his prolific career, from a teenage love of Manic Street Preachers and Therapy? to chance encounters with Bob Tilton and John Luther Adams

Blur – More UK Shows

Four-piece to warm up for Olympic gig at Hyde Park with a series of gigs across the UK

In Wide Angle: Simon Pegg’s 13 Favourite Films

Currently on cinema screens in the role of Benji Dunn in Mission Impossible: Fallout, Simon Pegg picks his 13 favourite films

Hot Chip

One Life Stand

David R. Morgan: Addicted To Plagiarism

Bobby Parker speaks to David Morgan - perhaps the most prolific poetry plagiarist of all time - about his work (and "his work"), looking to understand but left feeling a little like the hapless Clarice Starling

Addicted To Serendipity: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts’ Baker’s Dozen

As the Cumbrian quartet prepare to release their "'fuck you' to adulthood", Boy King, their singer and guitarist takes us through 13 LPs that shaped it, including Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter and Oneohtrix Point Never

Flip Your Wig: Bob Mould’s Favourite Albums

With his new, eleventh solo album Beauty & Ruin just released, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar man gives Nick Hutchings his top 13 records

Slayer Hijack MySpace Music For Halloween

Will include streaming of _World Painted Blood_