Vashti Bunyan

Heartleap

Tori Amos

Unrepentant Geraldines

LIVE REPORT: I Like Trains

Simon Catling puts an eloquent case for the brilliance of I Like Trains, a most magnificent and underestimated group after their gig at Manchester Deaf Institute. Picture by Michael J Connolly

Experimentalism Wrapped Around Pop: Barry Adamson’s Favourite LPs

Post punk polymath Barry Adamson guides Julian Marszalek around his favourite albums, from Baker's Staples like Iggy Pop and can to the Wu-Tang Clan, Ornette Coleman and Micachu. Photo by Jone Reed

Overcoming Fear Of A Massive Attack, Live In Paris

In Massive Attack's performance at this year's Rock en Seine festival in Paris, Jeremy Allen finds a performance that asks more questions than it answers and a timely mirror image to the uncertainty of our age. (Photographs by Christophe Crénel)

Awakening Songs: Buju Banton’s Favourite Music

As Buju Banton releases his first album in a decade, he guides Zakiya Mckenzie through the songs that shaped him, from discovering dancehall on the school minibus to collaborating with Pharrell Williams

LISTEN: New MEATRAFFLE

Band announce the release of their debut album; check out the album opener below

WATCH: Destroyer – Bye Bye

First look at video from upcoming EP Five Spanish Songs

Reissue Of The Week: Tomislav Simović’s Visitors From The Galaxy Remixed

Visitors From The Galaxy was a landmark in Yugoslav-Czech cinema and it featured a groundbreaking soundtrack as well. Danijela Bočev enjoys a recently remixed version of its OST and wonders what it says about the future

Catching The Groove: Buttechno Interviewed

Ahead of his set at Italy's Terraforma festival next month, Moscow-based producer Buttechno discusses his prolific work rate, running cultural spaces in his home city and using his platform to showcase the work of lesser-known artists

The Strange World Of… Buh Records

Jakub Knera speaks to Luis Alvarado, founder of essential Peruvian label Buh Records, and offers a beginners guide to their vast discography that takes in the country's rich musical traditions, avant-garde greats both old and new, unreleased gems from wider Latin America and more

BEAK> Announce Split EP With Themselves

WATCH: Battles & Gary Numan New Video

Trio highlight the potential pitfalls of consumerism in video for 'My Machines'

Reissue Of The Week: Khanate’s Things Viral

At the beginning of the millennium, Khanate created a twisted and challenging new form of sonic torment. Dan Franklin revisits the band’s reissued back catalogue and explores the harrowing context of their existence. CW: contains graphic discussion of torture and war crimes

Deceptively Simple Sentences: Joan Didion On Writing

John Quin admires Joan Didion’s late collection *Let Me Tell You What I Mean*

Crystal Castles: Exclusive Track-By-Track Preview Of Crystal Castles’ New LP

Crystal Castles follow their debut _Crystal Castles_ with second album, er, _Crystal Castles_. Emily Bick discovers a new, darker sound