A Belly Full: Tanya Donelly’s Favourite Albums

As Belly release their first album in over two decades, Tanya Donelly guides Emily Mackay through 13 favourite albums, from Leonard Cohen to The Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush to Iggy Pop, The Bunnymen, Mary Margaret O'Hara and more

LISTEN: New Function Album On Tresor

'Existenz' sees the Sandwell District affiliate team up with Robert Owens on a number of tracks

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)

Young Don

Weatherman 3

Tales of life inside and out from the Brixton-born MC, son of the legendary Smiley Culture

Sound & Vision: Broken Music Vol. 2 Explores Records By Artists

A little over three decades after Ursula Block's first exhibition of artists' vinyl records, a new show at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof looks at 70 years of records and sound works by artists

Mr Agreeable A Quietus Makes: Sour Sot Reviews Our Favourite Bands

The Quietus staff are fully occupied moving office today, so we left the website in the capable hands of Mr Agreeable, and suggested he might like to review music from East India Youth, Factory Floor, Sunn O))) and Fat White Family

Feel Like Dancin’? Jake Shears’ Favourite Albums

We mark Pride month with sometime Scissor Sister Jake Shears as he guides Ian Wade through 13 favourite records, from Elton John to Bongwater, Ween, Mr Bungle, Aphex and Ike & Tina Turner

Madonnatron Announce Debut Album

Madonnatron announce details of their self-titled debut album, with live dates set for this summer.

Brexit Book Will Of The People Crowdfunded

Writer Sarah Bee launches a crowdfunding campaign in anticipation of upcoming 'Brexit bedtime story' Will Of The People

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For February Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan returns with your regular guide to a metal scene that shows no sign of a winter hibernation, reviewing essential new releases from Spectral Voice, The Obsessed, The Body & Dis Fig and more

Tunng

Presents…Dead Club

Building their new album around interview with philosophers, forensic anthropologists and a palliative care physician, Tunng find a peculiar joy in death and grieving, finds Amanda Farah

All Tomorrow’s Parties Reviewed: Breeders And Fans Strike Back II

The Quietus (in the form of John Doran, Luke Turner, Jeremy Allen, Phil Hebblethwaite, Andrzej Lukowski, Maria Jefferis, Stu Green, Andy Ennis and Edd Westmacott) stumble around Minehead Butlins snapping and scribbling. The luckiest are the ones that died first . . .

The Strokes In New Album ‘Disagreement’

Julian Casablancas reveals split in the camp over new songs

Moon Diagrams

Lifetime Of Love

40 Years Later: Closer & The Last Days Of Joy Division

Because of the death of Ian Curtis and the nature of the band's last recordings, Joy Division's Closer is an album around which a stillness has settled. In truth, says Jonathan Wright as he talks to Peter Hook and Paul Morley, no band evolved so rapidly. All Joy Division portraits courtesy of Kevin Cummins