The Trouble With Comics: Can UK Comics Step Out From The Shadows?

Without America's scale, France's cultural capital or Japan's mass readership, the UK comics industry finds itself in a curious position. Katriona Chapman looks at the state of the art in light of Hannah Berry's UK Comics Creators Research Report

LISTEN: New Caught By The River 10″

More literary records from Caught By The River

Soul Jazz Reveals Latest ‘Deutsche Elektronische Musik’ Compilation

The 19-track compilation takes in music released between 1971 and 1983

Everybody Gets Wings: King Champion Sounds Interviewed

Ajay Saggar, leader of King Champion Sounds, tells Ben Graham how the collective went from one-off Mike Watt support act to fully fledged, brass-touting genre melders ahead of their UK tour, starting this week

INTERVIEW: Miskatonic Institute

Before the veritable home of horror studies sets up base in London this week, we talk to co-founder and tutor Virginie Sélavy and fellow faculty members Mark Pilkington and Stephen Thrower about the genre

Lovely Jubbly: D Double E’s Favourite Music

D Double E guides Aaron Bishop through the albums that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from Twista and Mobb Deep to Aaliyah and Shabba Ranks

Slowdive Share ‘Kisses’ Remixes by Grouper and Daniel Avery

The original track appeared on the band's 2023 album 'Everything Is Alive'

WATCH: Daft Punk LP Trailer

Creator's Project unveil Giorgio Moroder film

Taman Shud

Oracle War

LIVE REPORT: Sunn O)))

Mat Colegate reports on the Meltdown performance that blew 40 lightbulbs at the Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall. All photos by Samantha Hayley.

Central To Process: Justin Broadrick’s Favourite Albums

In a piece originally commissioned by The Bug's Kevin Martin, Justin Broadrick follows the release of Godflesh's new album A World Lit Only By Fire by taking a new spin on the Baker's Dozen format and talking Kate Hennessy through his current listening favourites

The Reading Cure: A European Literary Remedy For Brexit

Surveying independent publishers and booksellers, Jen Calleja collects a spectacular Eurocentric reading list for the disenfranchised 48%

Chimney Tops And Trumpets: Visions Of The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile’s first two albums are about to be reissued, remastered with bonus material. Wyndham Wallace takes a personal, nostalgic trip to his own private Glasgow

WATCH: Tom Rogerson & Brian Eno Film

Pianist Tom Rogerson and Brian Eno discuss the influences behind their collaborative album released last year

Trwbador

Several Wolves

Hyperspecific Midterm Mix: Dance 12″s Of The Year So Far

Following on from our albums and reissues list, Rory Gibb offers a reductive and subjective list and mix of 25 of the best dance tracks of the year so far