WATCH: Bright Sparks Trailer

Film and album document early work of synth pioneers including the companies and individuals involved in the development of the instrument

Midori Takada Composes Score For BFI Japanese Cinema Installation

The six-screen 'TOKINOKAWA' installation is part of the BFI's 'Japan On Film 'series

Club To Club Adds SOPHIE & More

The Turin festival will also host an Italian exclusive appearance from The xx's Romy Madley-Croft

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Nothing Great About Britain

The debut album by always-grinning anarchist, Slowthai, traffics in everyday pain, squelchy grime, drill bassiness and woozy hip-hop, finds Colin Gannon

Lay Of Her Land: Brix Smith Start’s Favourite Albums

As she prepares to release a debut album with her band of former Fall troopers, Brix Smith Start takes Julian Marszalek through some of the records that have shaped her life

Don’t You Know They’re Loco? Cypress Hill’s Black Sunday Revisited

With Black Sunday, Cypress Hill didn’t just become one of the world’s biggest hip hop acts: they carried out a shotgun wedding between rap and goth

The Body Is Not Gender: Laura Jane Grace Of Against Me! Interviewed

Against Me!'s Laura Jane Grace has penned an album of astonishingly intimate anthemic punk rock. Transgender Dysphoria Blues explores a perspective seldom seen in punk: that of a trans* woman. Here she talks to Petra Davis about creativity, femininity, and soul rebellion

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Zoning Out: Meemo Comma’s Favourite Albums

From Pan Daijing and Destiny's Child to Kate Bush and Venetian Snares, Lara Rix-Martin, AKA Meemo Comma, discusses 13 of her favourite albums, as well as her new album on Planet Mu, 'Sleepmoss'

Malcolm Middleton To Reissue Solo Debut

Landmark album 5:14 Fluoxytine Seagull Alcohol John Nicotine to be released on vinyl for the first time

Enter The Void: Berghain As Art Gallery

With night clubs still locked down, Studio Berlin fills the notorious venue with syphilis-bearing slave ships, bondage harness sculptures and statues deep in k-holes. But what will remain of this new normal, asks Dorian Batycka, and what will become of the German capital’s many other club spaces?

Alison Cotton

All Is Quiet At The Ancient Theatre

On Bloxham Tapes, evocative and extraordinary viola compositions