Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Shares Solo Track, ‘L’Accouchement’

It's the first piece of music to be unveiled from an album that he recorded to soundtrack a ballet

Beautiful Losers: Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Baker’s Dozen

Eschewing what he sees as the wilful obscurity of previous Baker's Dozens, Jim Reid takes Daniel Dylan Wray through the 13 records that "chiselled out The Jesus And Mary Chain"

Accidents Of Evocation: COI + Mordant Music = MisinforMation Explored

Kevin Mccaighy revisits this disquieting DVD featuring audio by Baron Mordant set to visuals from the Central Office of Information, originally available through specialist outlets and now reissued by the BFI

Party Pieces: Andy Burnham’s Favourite Albums

The Mayor of Greater Manchester takes Fergal Kinney through 13 records that shaped him, via his days as a Hacienda regular and his children introducing him to Big Thief

The Woodentops Live: Back On The Love Train At Last

"You’ve always been at the back of my mind…" Wyndham Wallace welcomes The Woodentops to Berlin’s Lido Club.

Art Of Glass: Crystal Castles Singer ‘The Coolest’

Alice Crystal Clear Of The Competition in NME Cool List

Glorious Absurdity: Field Maneuvers Reviewed

Taking place at a secret location just an hour outside of London, Christian Eede finds that Field Maneuvers is a festival that taps into a special kind of community spirit befitting of its modest capacity, and checks out sets from Giant Swan, Avalon Emerson and more along the way

Kylie Minogue

Aphrodite

The Perfect Sentence: Tariq Goddard’s Favourite Storytelling Songs

Novelist and publisher Tariq Goddard chooses thirteen songs that have defined his life, with a focus on the musical storytellers who inspired him to tell tales of his own from The Kinks to Ice T

Cabin Fever: Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Favourite Music

Beverly Glenn-Copeland takes Stephanie Phillips through the albums that fuelled his love for music over the years, from the soundtracks to secluded woodland trips to meetings with younger artists inspired by his work and how he found the work of Sting

Things Learned At Mad Cool Festival

Daniel Dylan Wray travels to Madrid to experience the festival that wants to be all things to all people and encounters The Cure, Iggy Pop and Johnny Marr along the way

Dinosaur Jr

Farm

WATCH: Nisennenmondai – B-2

Session performance of closer from last year's N album

Parallel Winter: An Essay On The Season By Richard Youngs

Before his appearance at Platform's celebration of the year's darkest, coldest quarter in Glasgow this weekend, the prolific singer-songwriter takes a moment to reflect on how a flu jab, a family away holidaying in Portugal and a lonely recording session in 2011 forever changed winter for him

Call The Police! – Terry Bickers’ Favourite Albums

One of 80s indie's defining guitarists talks us through his 13 albums – and risks the ire of purists everywhere by insisting that sometimes compilations are best

LISTEN: New Blur

Damon Albarn and Graham Coxon perform a piano-led new Blur song, 'Under The Westway'