Letter To A Young Playwright (After Rilke): Courtesy Jemma Kennedy

With her play, Genesis Inc., currently at Hampstead Theatre, Jemma Kennedy takes a leaf out of Rainer Maria Rilke's book and offers some salutary advice to the aspiring dramatist

LISTEN: New Pictish Trail

Track is taken from forthcoming album; listen below

LISTEN: Matmos Remixing Herbert

Idiosyncratic electronic duo remix a track from Herbert's Bodily Functions

LISTEN: New Mogwai

Mogwai have announced details of their 9th studio album and a huge world tour, all the details, and new track 'Coolverine' are below. Homepage photo by Brian Sweeney.

Die Antwoord

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Playing The (Baker’s) Dozens: George Clinton’s Favourite Albums

With the funk kingpin and founder of Parliament and Funkadelic taking his bands on a festival tour this summer, Suzie McCracken caught up with him to find out about the 13 records that have stuck with him through his lifetime

Pop-Kultur Announces First 2018 Names

John Maus, Nadine Shah and more will play Berlin's Pop-Kultur this summer

Big Pictures: At The Biennale De L’Image En Mouvement

At Geneva's 21st Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Will Jennings encounters work by Hannah Black, Simon Fujiwara, Camille Henrot, Juliana Huxtable, and Grau, curated by DIS and Andrea Bellini for the Centre D'Art Contemporain

Something Searing: Yannis Philippakis Of Foals’ Favourite Albums

Before the release of new album What Went Down, the Foals frontman gives Lisa Lavery his top 13 LPs, all records united by "people's voices that connect directly", moving through Arthur Russell, Pixies and Howlin' Wolf

Tamikrest Set For UK Tour This Month

Tuareg band bound for nine-date run starting this month

WATCH: Nisennenmondai NTS Session

Trio lay down nine-minute jam in NTS session; watch the video below

Guns ‘N’ Roses Killers

Las Vegas four-piece The Killers beat G'N'R to UK number one spot.

Africa Hitech

93 Million Miles

WATCH: Clip From New Sigur Rós Film

Excerpt from new concert film/live album Inni now available for your perusal

Riverrun Through It: Imagining & Reimagining Finnegans Wake

With 'riverrun', the newest in a long line of artistic adaptations of Joyce's famously-less-than-permeable novel, currently playing at the National Theatre Stephanie Boland considers the difficulties of adapting and interpreting Finnegans Wake and Olwen Fouéré's production