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Let It Happen: Paddy Shine’s Baker’s Dozen

Paddy Shine is one of the most relentless instigators in the underground, both as part of Gnod and in myriad other projects. Ahead of the release of the debut album by his weird folk group Moundabout alongside Phil Masterson on Rocket this summer, he guides Harry Sword through 13 vital slabs

Epic Soundtracks: Artists Who Make Music And Musicians Who Make Art

John Quin finds some suspicious packages in a railway station in Glasgow

Thirteen Masks: Jarboe’s Favourite Music

Jarboe guides Spyros Stasis through 13 favourites in this week's Baker's Dozen, taking in the likes of Arvo Pärt, Kendrick Lamar, Janis Joplin and her relationship with Swans

Sting Gives House To Sea Power Rock School

Country house donated for Lakelend art and music venture

A Safe Place For Me: Jesca Hoop’s 13 Favourite Records

Ahead of her performance at Green Man this weekend, Jesca Hoop guides Diva Harris through her 13 favourite albums, from Björk to Dylan, Cat Stevens and Kate Bush

RIP Kraftwerk’s Florian Schneider

One of the group's founding members, Schneider was aged 73

Some Will Not Sleep: Adam Nevill’s Favourite Horror Short Stories

To mark the Halloween release of his own first collection of short stories, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors, horror novelist and genre aficionado, Adam Nevill, selects a Baker’s Dozen of his favourite short stories from contemporary writers in the field of modern horror. As with Nevill’s 2015 filmic Baker’s Dozen, fans of the genre are going to find an abundance of suggestions to work through on this list. (Written by Adam Nevill, as relayed to Sean Kitching)

A Festival Of Remembrance: CTM Berlin Reviewed

Claire Sawers hits Berlin's marathon ten day CTM festival and declares it a beautiful thing that it avoids any inward looking eurocentrism with a lineup that sprawls over continents

Get Off Of My Loud: The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds Reviewed

This is what happens when you employ the fan of a certain terrible group to produce your new album, says JR Moores; although he also has a theory for who's really responsible…

40 Years On: Pere Ubu’s The Modern Dance Revisited

Can the birth of post-punk be traced back to a recording studio in the Cleveland woods? Brian Coney makes the case for Pere Ubu’s debut LP being the genre's genesis point

LISTEN: New Susanna Single

Susanna takes inspiration from the works of medieval Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch on her next album

Aural Obliteration: The Bug’s Sirens At Illuminations Festival

At this year's Illuminations Festival in London, Mollie Zhang gets immersed in Kevin Martin's Sirens project and considers the power of all-encompassing sonic obliteration as therapy in a world of immediacy

The Boiler Room & Why Channel 4 Got Live Streaming Wrong

2012 was the year when live streaming became fully entrenched as a form of music broadcast. So why did Channel 4's attempt at a clubbing-from-home experience this summer ring so hollow?

Iron Maiden The Final Frontier Track By Track Review

John Doran has only listened to _The Final Frontier_ once, but that's enough for him to herald its brilliance. He explains why the Irons aren't like most normal bands...

Candyman OST

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe

The artist AKA Lichens has riffed on the original score as a gateway to sinister new heights, finds Charlie Brigden

EEK feat. Islam Chipsy

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