Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For March

Rimming disasters, Cockney piano and countryfied garage rock expectorations... Noel Gardner probes the boundaries of punk rock once again

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

Ritual, Hypnosis and Drone: Richard Norris’ Favourite Albums

With both The Grid and Beyond The Wizard’s Sleeve back in action, and new memoir Strange Things Are Happening out now, Richard Norris takes Patrick Clarke through an eclectic 13 records that have defined his life in music

Rare Selda Bağcan Show Sees Release

The Turkish singer and political activist's set at last year's Le Guess Who? will be released through the festival's label next month; listen to a track from it below

Rammstein Unveil Liebe Ist Für Alle Da Artwork

Nudity! Cleavers! Enormous green pumpkin!

All In It: British Sea Power’s Scott Wilkinson On His Favourite LPs

Ahead of British Sea Power's soundtracking of Polish animation at the Barbican as part of Kinoteka Film Festival and the release of new album Let The Dancers Inherit The Party, vocalist Scott Wilkinson guides Richard Foster through his favourite albums, from War Of The Worlds to Mighty Sparrow, Pavement and more. Photo by Mayumi Hirata

David Lynch And More For Manchester International Festival

David Lynch, Maxine Peake and Skepta are amongst the names taking part in this year's Manchester International Festival

After A Healthy Interval: The Young Knives Interviewed

Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst offers a mea culpa, a unique insight and a robust appraisal of the newly invigorated and under-appreciated rock group, Young Knives

FKA Twigs Surprise Releases EP

New EP from FKA twigs surprise released accompanied by video for four of the EP's five tracks; watch it below

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Mastodon Stomp Back: Crack The Skye Reviewed Track-By-Track

After a turbulent couple of years, Mastodon return with their fourth album _Crack The Skye_. A song about Tsarist Russia in four parts, you say? John Doran sits back to bathe himself in prog.

INTERVIEW: The Necks

To mark the Australian improvisation luminaries announcing European tour dates in April, we get a look at a full-length video of their set in Copenhagen last October and talk to the band's Lloyd Swanton