Film4 FrightFest The 13th Preview

Event co-founder Alan Jones chats to Stuart Wright about this year's bountiful offerings. Poster by Graham Humphreys and Paul Johnstone

Rum Music For September Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Insect percussions, haunted workouts, hungry shells and phasing saxophones in this month's bumper back-to-school edition surveying sound and music's outer limits and inner spaces.

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For September Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with all that is good, bad and ugly in heavy metal, covering new releases from Napalm Death, Sumac and Uniform

A Mighty Wind: Shabaka Hutchings’ Perceive Its Beauty, Acknowledge Its Grace

From Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings pivots to jazz flute with beguiling results

Two Reasons Why Frisk Frugt Is Flipping Brilliant

There are two albums by Anders Lauge Meldgaard up in this feature. John Doran is imploring you to buy both of them

Second Helpings: Neil Arthur Of Blancmange’s Favourite Albums

Following his revisit to the synth pop duo's debut album Happy Families last year, Neil Arthur looks back over 13 other top albums from his past

Ennio Morricone RIP: 13 Artists And Writers On Their Favourite Morricone Compositions

As news breaks that the prolific and acclaimed composer Ennio Morricone has sadly died at the age of 91, we compile a Baker's Dozen of artists and writers on their favourite work by Il Maestro, from Jane Weaver and Blanck Mass to Årabrot and Rachel Zeffira

Columnus Metallicus: Bleak November’s Best Metal, By Louise Brown

Louise Brown manages to drag herself out of the pit of disappear this terrible month has pushed us all into to find hope in the rancid art and galumphing noise of Witchwood, Robert Pehrsson's Humbucker, Testament, The Eddy Malm Band, Spiritus Mortis, Tower, T.O.M.B

Resistance Songs: Mdou Moctar’s Favourite Music

From Van Halen to Ali Farka Touré via Bob Marley, Tinariwen and Oumou Sangaré, Mdou Moctar takes us through the thirteen albums, tracks, artists and styles that made him who he is

Lust For Music: Irvine Welsh’s Favourite Albums

With Filth recently released on DVD and a new novel due later this year, the Edinburgh author places a long-distance call from Miami to give Joe Clay the rundown of his top albums

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with the good, the bad and the ugly in heavy metal for May, featuring new cuts from Panopticon, Grave Miasma and Nadja

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music: Benjamin Myers’ Favourite Music

Music journalist-turned-novelist Benjamin Myers shares the music that made him a writer from The Slits to Slipknot – and why almost all of it is impossible to write to…

The Low Culture Podcast: John & Luke On Heart Of The Congos

This month the Quietus Editors talk about the 1977 vocal reggae album by The Congos, widely held to be one of the greatest Jamaican LPs and an example of Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry’s Black Ark Studio at the height of its power

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