A Musician Vs. The Music Industry: A Conversation

The Icarus Line have battled as hard, if not harder, than most to survive. In a follow up to his essay How The Music Industry Is Killing Music & Blaming The Fans, Wyndham Wallace exchanges mails with Joe Cardamone about the difficulties of making a living from music

Anthroprophh: New Video And Mix

Band get crate-digging before tomorrow's Golden Cabinet show and unveil video for Dead Man On The Scene from Outside The Circle

Songs Are Syringes: Kristin Hersh On Her Favourite Tracks

Throwing Muses are releasing Purgatory/Paradise, their first album in a decade, so Kristin Hersh met up with John Doran to discuss her favourite records (not albums)

Napalm Death & Hallogallo Confirmed For Supersonic Festival

Birmingham Festival gets even better

Jenny Hval

Viscera

LISTEN: New Tomaga

Duo share track from forthcoming new album; listen below

Productive Pleasure: Alfie Bown’s Enjoying It Reviewed

Looking at psychological and social power structures and stark capitalist reality through the lens of Candy Crush and YouTube wormholes, Joe Kennedy considers the ideas of productive and unproductive pleasures and sympathy with pretentiousness via Alfie Bown's Enjoying It

Foxygen

We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace & Magic

Jordy

The Love Ting

Love is a brilliant thing and Essex by-way-of Tottenham rapper, Jordy, encapsulates all of its peaks and troughs with his latest EP, The Love Ting

LISTEN: Saint Saviour – Tightrope

New single set for release at the beginning of an extensive October/November tour

Punched Through The Digital Wall: Sam Byers’ Perfidious Albion Playlist

Author Sam Byers, whose new novel Perfidious Albion is published by Faber on Thursday, shares the songs that accompanied its creation

Belle & Sebastian

Girls In Peacetime Want To Dance