Art Ensemble Of Chicago

We Are On The Edge: A 50th Anniversary Celebration

We Are On The Edge, a 50th anniversary celebration of the legendary Art Ensemble of Chicago is both a graceful tribute and a testament to these musicians’ questing vision, finds Noel Gardner

Parallel Winter: An Essay On The Season By Richard Youngs

Before his appearance at Platform's celebration of the year's darkest, coldest quarter in Glasgow this weekend, the prolific singer-songwriter takes a moment to reflect on how a flu jab, a family away holidaying in Portugal and a lonely recording session in 2011 forever changed winter for him

The Power And The Beauty: Tori Amos’ Favourite Music

From bonding with her daughter over Dolly Parton and Cocteau Twins to being starstruck by Billy Joel and Elton John, Tori Amos takes Lisa Jenkins through thirteen tracks that have defined her life and career

My Pioneers: Santigold’s Favourite Albums

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Santigold takes Tara Joshi through 13 favourite albums from Salt-N-Pepa to the Cocteau Twins, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone and Bad Brains, and points out that while Morrissey might have gone wrong, you can't take away what his songs once gave her

Main Attrakionz

Bossalinis & Fooliyones

Cardiacs To Relaunch Website At Midnight

Benefit concert for frontman Tim Smith, featuring The Scaramanga Six and Lake Of Puppies, taking place later this month

Tour De France: Jonathan Meades Selects 13 Exercise Bike Classics

After a recent serious illness, writer and documentarian Jonathan Meades was prescribed 30 minutes a day on an exercise bike. He tells John Doran about his 13 favourite pieces of classical music to accompany his regimen

Getting Hypnotised: John Robb Finds The Funk In Unusual Places

How did it take us nearly a decade to ask Brother John Robb for his Baker's Dozen choices? The Membranes frontman sits down with Julian Marszalek to discuss 13 favourite records where over the years he's dug out the most funk

Human Elements: Adam Nevill Interviewed

Sean Kitching speaks to horror novelist Adam Nevill about victim misogyny in horror films, picking apart the myths of history's notorious psychopaths in his latest book, No One Gets Out Alive, the literary brilliance of True Detective and not being the British Stephen King

Armenia’s Urvakan Festival Completes 2022 Lineup

Mulatu Astatke and Pan Daijing are among the final additions to the bill for this year's event

Adrian Rew

Slot Machine Music Vol. 1 (Reissue)

BEAK> Compose Film Soundtrack

Bristol trio and Geoff Barrow-side project have contributed to a forthcoming film following a couple living in solitude in the woods

Quietus Scribe Pens Pantera Book

LIVE REPORT: Kraftwerk Tate Modern

John Doran has a funny turn in the church of the modern. Live photos by Katja Ogrin, see more here

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