Louder Than Words Festival Next Month

Submissions now being taken for the inaugural Wilko Johnson Writing Award
, set to be presented at the festival

The Ideal Copies: Graham Lewis Of Wire’s Favourite Albums

As Wire continue their five-night London residency as part of the tQ co-curated DRILL:LEXINGTON festival, their bassist and lyricist gives Luke Turner a tour of his top 13 records

Get In The Zone: Stalking The Atomic City By Markiyan Kamysh

Stalking the Atomic City, translated by Hanna Leliv & Reilly Costigan-Humes for Pushkin Press, is the memoir of a 'stalker' who spent months exploring the ruins of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster

Sound Of Creation: Adrian Sherwood’s 13 Favourite Albums

Legendary UK dub producer and On-U-Sound founder Adrian Sherwood recently released his latest solo album Survival & Resistance. He talks David Stubbs through a list of his favourite albums and inspirations, from Ray Charles to Burning Spear

Immersion Unveil New Album, ‘Nanocluster Vol. 2’

Colin Newman of Wire and Malka Spigel of Minimal Compact link up with Holy Fuck's Matt Schulz and others for the release

The Ex

27 Passports

A powerful and humane textbook for life, disguised as a new album from The Ex

Ongoing Adventures: Rachel Unthank’s Favourite Albums

Jude Rogers speaks to Rachel Unthank about her abiding love for and political importance of maintaining the folk tradition... but explains she wasn't averse to a bit of Faith No More when it all got too much. This week's Baker's Dozen.

Gold Dust Of Our Musical Worth: Ian Anderson’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall, the Jethro Tull man picks out his thirteen finest albums

The Woodentops

Granular Tales

Visions: Uncle Acid, Eleanor Friedberger

East London festival adds new round of names

No Cuddly Toy: Nelson Mandela Remembered

David Stubbs looks at the life of Nelson Mandela, and argues that he should remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the twentieth century