Sleaford Mods Announce New Album, ‘Spare Ribs’

Lead single 'Mork N Mindy' features Billy Nomates

Urvakan Festival Announces Second Wave For 2020

The Armenian festival's second year will host SOPHIE, Rui Ho, AYA and more

Music Is Not Sport: Nils Frahm’s Favourite Albums

Before he releases his Late Night Tales compilation, the pianist, composer and new classical ("I never liked it, but I'm stuck with it now; give me something cool like 'neo jazz'") pioneer gives Karl Smith a tour of his favourite overlooked records, by musicians "that deserve a little afterglow"

A Spoon Baker’s Dozen: The Texan Connections Of Julian Cope

As Spoon hit the UK their vocalist and founder Britt Daniel guides Charles Ubaghs through his 13 favourite albums, from Public Enemy to Miles Davis, the raw emotion of Cat Power and strange idol Julian Cope

It Always Ends In Hope: Dawn Richard’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of her performance at EFG London Jazz Festival with Spencer Zahn, Dawn Richard selects the music that shook and inspired her in her youth, from Prince to The Prodigy via Enya and Fela Kuti

WATCH: Kylie Minogue – Into The Blue

Video for single from forthcoming album Kiss Me Once

New Weird Britain In Review For November By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner looks the length and breadth of this island for music made or inspired by migrants and aided by those in other countries. Waqwaq Kingdom portrait by Marco Tinari

Chance The Rapper

Acid Rap

For Your Unpleasure: An Essay By Mark Fisher

A new anthology, Punk Is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night, includes this essay by theorist Mark Fisher, about Roxy Music, Siouxsie Sioux, the erotic and the savage.

Primary Colours: Faris Badwan Of The Horrors’ Favourite Albums

With their new album Luminous released yesterday, The Horrors' frontman picks out some of his favourite (and, in fact, least favourite) illustrated covers in an artistic Baker's

An Explosion Of Feelings: Soft Cell’s This Last Night In Sodom

Matthew Lindsay celebrates the 1984 farewell album that was derided as an act of drug-addled, synth pop self-sabotage but was in actuality a rich and challenging masterpiece

The World Is Still Waiting: The Significance Of The Stone Roses Reunion

Those seeing the recent Roses reunion as either uplifting nostalgia or lad rock showing its true capitalist colours are missing the whole picture, says Alex Niven

Kindred Spirits: Burial The Urban Explorer

Burial released his new EP, Kindred, though Hyperdub this week. In a piece that began as a simple review before spiraling out of control, Rory Gibb asks why he, out of all his contemporaries, has struck such a nerve with such a wide audience