An Official Statement On The Death Of Prince

Peter Rehberg Has Died, Aged 53

Rehberg founded the Editions Mego label and released music as Pita

Hypnosis Osmosis: Let’s Eat Grandma Interviewed

Suzie McCracken meets Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth, the Norwich teenagers producing genre-hurdling experimental pop, to connect the dots between fairytales, subliminal songwriting and lepidopterology

Tom Waits Joins New Order For Record Store Day ’09

Exclusive Smiths, Jane's Addiction and Jesus Lizard releases also planned

Did Orangeism Pave The Way For The Atom Bomb? I Am Kurious Oranj At 30

Mark E Smith shared an artistic vision with William Blake, says Alex Weston-Noond and The Annotated Fall online resource of the group's (oft overlooked) tenth album, but its real power lies in the way it deals with more standard themes of politics and breakup

Tape Adapter: April’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed by Gary Suarez

From ILoveMakonnen to Dae Jones, Gary Suarez brings us the best of this month's hip hop mixtapes

Ring The Alarm: DJ Haram Interviewed

Ahead of an appearance at Wysing Arts Centre's annual day festival in September, Discwoman's DJ Haram speaks to Kristen Gallerneaux and Bernie Brooks about the scene in her base of Philadelphia and linking up with Moor Mother and the Discwoman collective

Opera House Music: Pet Shop Boys’ Dreamworld Reviewed

Pet Shop Boys’ very own never-ending Dreamworld tour is back in the Capital for a five-night run at the Royal Opera House. But on a day when central London is host to multiple demonstrations about the kind of country the UK wants to be, are Tennant and Lowe losing their common touch?

Stare Upon My Works – The Quietus Reissues & Compilations Of 2011

From century old African music on 78rpm discs to pirate radio DJ mix tapes, we list all the exciting action that happened outside of the studio in music this year

LISTEN: Strategy – ‘Boxy Music’

Not Not Fun's sister dance label draws crunchy arpeggios and thick disco beats from Strategy

Low Culture 9: Chris Morris And The Legacy Of Blue Jam

Comedy tends to age badly but is this necessarily always the case? Noel Gardner - a self-confessed former "right teenage fanboy" - revisits Chris Morris' Blue Jam with a more critical, adult eye

Jane Weaver Reveals New Single, ‘Hartlow’

It's the second song to be unveiled from forthcoming album 'Flock'

Technics Revive SL-1210 Model

New black model of the classic turntable announced

LIVE REPORT: Blood Sport

Josh Gray reports from Cafe Oto in London

DOWNLOAD: Fist City – Boring Kids

Free track from Canadian scuzzers

Musicians Write To The UK Government About EU Touring

Artists have been "shamefully failed" by the UK Government, says an open letter signed by Radiohead, Liam Gallagher and more