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Overlapping Terrain: Richard Skelton’s Favourite Music

Following the release of his new album LASTGLACIALMAXIMUM, the prolific Richard Skelton speaks to Luke Turner about the music that inspired his own work, from Thomas Tallis to Phuture, Nico to Sly & The Family Stone, The Stooges and Gorecki

Goodbye To The Garage: An Interview With Dry Cleaning

Patrick Clarke travels to Eltham for a sit down meal with Dry Cleaning, who talk garages, FIFA, YouTube, pasta and their superb new EP 'Boundary Road Snacks and Drinks'.

Julian Cope Announces Tour

The former The Teardrop Explodes frontman and recognised authority on Neolithic culture announces three dates across the UK in support of his new book, Copendium

Wild Imaginings: DJ Muggs Of Cypress Hill’s Favourite LPs

DJ Muggs of Cypress Hill guides Elizabeth Aubrey through 13 inspirational records, from Wu-Tang Clan to Mobb Deep, Led Zeppelin, Public Enemy... and Cypress Hill themselves

The Strange World Of… The Legendary Pink Dots

Lovers of the strange! The Legendary Pink Dots are back with brilliant new album The Gethsemane Option. The band's Ed Ka-Spel runs through the strange world of their history

John Leckie On That Stone Roses Album & The Trouble With Kids These Days

Stone Roses and Radiohead producer John Leckie On Making That Album, nuclear apocalypse-proof mixing desks, and why the ease of mySpace music distribution might not be a good thing

Iggy Pop’s Guitars Nicked

Mendoza Hoff Revels

Echolocation

The incendiary debut album from guitarist Ava Mendoza and bassist Devin Hoff (with James Brandon Lewis on tenor sax and Ches Smith on drums) evokes a fusion of Sonny Sharrock and Sonic Youth, or Black Flag and Ornette Coleman’s Prime Time, finds Sean Kitching

Franz Confirm Album Release Date

Out in January

Six Organs of Admittance

Time is Glass

The 27th Six Organs of Admittance album offers an appealing take on the folk revival, but it's lifted to new heights by Ben Chasny's strongest vocal performance yet, finds Daniel Hignell

Radiohead Encouraged To Split

Management thought it wasn't "working" before In Rainbows

Thirteen Types Of Elsewhere: Mark Fell’s Favourite Albums

On the eve of his appearance at Semibreve, Portugal's annual celebration of "exploratory music and digital arts", Mark Fell guides us through his most beloved releases

Symphonies Of Sickness By Carcass 25 Years On

Ned Raggett asks you to witness the sickness as he looks back at the groundbreaking second album by Carcass

Sound City Ipswich To Return This October

BC Camplight, Katy J Pearson and more have joined the new music-focused festival

Domino Responds To Four Tet Royalties Settlement

The label has insisted that the settlement will not set a future precedent for future digital royalties contracts

Digging Through Plastic: Tiziano Popoli’s Collected Recordings

A collection of the works of 1980s recordings by one of Bruno Maderna's former students reveals a composer far too much fun to be confined to the academy