Quit Your Jingle-Jangle: The Smiths’ Strangeways Here We Come Revisited

The Smiths’ last studio album was their most ambitious, adventurous and experimental, too. Thirty years on, Ben Hewitt looks back on the forward-thinking record that could have been the start of a new chapter, rather than a full-stop

The Thrill Is Gone: An Interview With Blackhaine

Lancashire rapper and dancer Blackhaine explores class, mortality and ennui through an unorthodox take on UK drill. Ahead of his performance at WOS Festival, he speaks with Alastair Shuttleworth about the world-building across his records to date

Raphael Rogiński 

Talán

Polish guitarist seeks inspiration along the Black Sea’s coastlines for his latest set of haunted blues meditations

The Four Owls

Nocturnal Instinct

With features from the likes of DJ Premier and Kool G Rap, the new Four Owls album brings us back to the glory days of 1990s hip hop, finds James Butterworth

New Weird Britain: January’s Most Wonderful UK Underground Releases

Acid house rolls, slop-fi instrumentals and untrammelled free-rock devastation: the year is looking juicy already, with Gum Takes Tooth, Business Dudes, Shrimp and plenty more

Reissue Of The Week: Dead Kennedy’s Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

It is a surprise that Dead Kennedy’s Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetable has aged so well, says Darran Anderson, as he reviews Cherry Red’s new reissue of the band’s debut album

Woodland Gathering Approaches

Two-day festival around Cumbria's Lake Windermere just under a month away; will feature sets from Gazelle Twin, Roly Porter and more

Things Learned At: Roadburn 2017

At this year's Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Toby Cook finds both a panacea to and projection of the state of contemporary politics, witnesses the sonic ferocity of Mysticum and appreciates the truly psychedelic nature of Gnod. (Photographs by Justin Ligtvoet and Paul Verhagen respectively)

Batu Releases New Standalone Track, ‘Other Means’

Out on his A Long Strange Dream imprint, it kickstarts a new series of one-off club tracks set to be released through 2024

Memory Palace: On ‘Ask Any Buddy’ And The Golden Age Of Gay Porn

Due to play at the BFI Flare London LGBTIQ+ Film Festival, Ask Any Buddy does for cock and balls what Christian Marclay did for clocks. Caden Mark Gardner writes on the kaleidoscopic, experimental archive piece of gay pornography

WATCH: New Angus Tarnawsky Video

First look at video for Expand Contract from newly-released EP, out on AnD and Tom Dicicco's label

Tomaga To Release Final Album, ‘Intimate Intensity’

The duo worked on the album before the death last year of member Tom Relleen

Princess Nokia

Everything is Beautiful/Everything Sucks

A new double album from Princess Nokia is a game of two halves, finds Nick Roseblade

Lovely Jubbly: D Double E’s Favourite Music

D Double E guides Aaron Bishop through the albums that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from Twista and Mobb Deep to Aaliyah and Shabba Ranks

Various

Close To The Noise Floor

Phillip Sollmann

Monophonie

Berghain regular Phillip Sollmann delivers an album ideally suited to repeated listens in the comfort of one's home, finds Joseph Burnett