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WATCH: Maribel – ‘You Bring The Sadness’

Blood and sex in the video for Norwegian band's new track

LIVE REPORT: Darkside

"The strangest, loudest silent disco in the world" – Damien Morris reports back from Elephant & Castle's The Coronet Theatre where Nicolas Jaar takes to stage alongside guitarist Dave Harrington. Photo by Rashid Akrim

Faggamuffins Step Out: Why Queering Carnival Matters

In a possibly world first, this weekend's Hackney Carnival will host the Faggamuffin Bloc Party sound system entirely run by and featuring queer people of colour. Virginia Wilson explains why this exciting new development is so personally and politically important

Beverly Glenn-Copeland Announces Dementia Diagnosis

The 80-year-old artist's upcoming North American live shows will be his last

Heading For The Sure: Jim Jones And The Righteous Mind Interviewed

After The Jim Jones Revue called time on proceedings last year, their main man decided he was ready for a new project, located somewhere between his old band's barnstorming rock & roll and dreamier territory. He tells Julian Marszalek about their "heavy lounge" before they make their UK debut

Weird Pop: Clinamen Interviewed

Serial collaborator Kuba Ziołek teams up with electronics wizard Krzysztof Ostrowski to offer hope in a time of plague, says Julian Marszalek. Tune in for an exclusive pre-release stream of the new album

Watch: New Wildbirds & Peacedrum Video

See film for 'My Heart'

Live Report: Drinks at Oslo

Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley: delightful, deadpan and apparently arousing

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Fugitive Soul: The Strange World Of… JG Thirlwell

JG Thirlwell celebrates 40 years as a recording artist this year. Karl O’Connor talks to the Foetus mastermind at his Brooklyn home/studio, where he describes his four decades as an artist. With assistance from Jim Siegel

LISTEN: New Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Give Us A Kiss and a live version of Jubilee Street, two previously unreleased Bad Seeds tracks from the soundtrack to 20,000 Days On Earth

Black Lips Team Up With The Horrors

Faris Rotter will contribute cover for garage band

Utopia Is Not Out Of Reach: A Guide To Sun Ra Arkestra

As Sun Ra Arkestra bring Saturn to Victoria Park for Field Day, Daniel Baker profiles their decades of cosmic free jazz Afrofuturism

Are We Human? Steven Spielberg’s A.I. At 20

Steven Spielberg's strongest and strangest film set the tone and pace for the filmmaker's most prolific period in the 2000s – and has aged gloriously, finds Sam Moore