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Unearthly Delights: Lydia Lunch’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the no wave pioneer's set with Big Sexy Noise at The Lexington tomorrow, she reluctantly takes up the gauntlet and picks her top 13 LPs

‘Memories Translated Into Objects’: High Wolf Interviewed

In the latest edition of his column on French music, David McKenna chats to High Wolf about the way his instruments gather both personal and collective memories

Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums

As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more

Sam Herlihy Of The Northwestern Defends Jamie Oliver

In this month's column, Sam Herlihy explains why the much derided TV chef should be clutched to our bosom. Photograph by Barney Britton www.photoinsensitive.com

Hitchcock Be Damned: Give Me Everything You Have Reviewed

Cay McDermott gets under the skin of James Lasdun's Hitchockian thriller - a visceral, deeply unsettling autobiographical study of stalking in the technological age, at once all-too-real and a masterwork of suspense

Life Of A Discaholic: Mats Gustafsson’s Favourite Albums

The prolific free jazz saxophonist, The Thing and Fire! member and crate digger extraordinaire takes up our top 13 albums gauntlet

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

Gardner’s Straight Hedge No. II: The Finest In Punk & Hardcore

Our Noel Gardner's back with the best tapes, releases, CDs and so forth in punk and hardcore and says: what's wrong with jamming on the stepping stones?

Invisible Undercurrents: Cat’s Eyes’ Favourite Soundtracks

With their soundtrack to Peter Strickland's new film The Duke Of Burgundy released this week, Cats' Eyes - The Horrors' Faris Badwan and composer Rachel Zeffira - run through their movie collection with Kiran Acharya to pick out their 13 top scores and soundtracks

‘Getting Ready’: A Cuntata By May-Lan Tan & Elizabeth Mikesch

New writing this week is part of an on-going collaboration between authors Elizabeth Mikesch and May-Lan Tan, Planetette, the product of an aggressive approach, vandalising each other's sentences until it's no longer clear who has written what

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Mogwai, Godspeed, Low For ATP Festivals

Mogwai to close festival in December

Pillars Of Childhood: Lafawndah’s Favourite Music

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Lafawndah picks the thirteen pieces of music that made her "want to say things," from Schubert to Busta Rhymes via Midori Takada and Lady Saw

There’s Always A Story: Martin Carthy’s Favourite Music

Martin Carthy speaks to Patrick Clarke about his 13 favourite records, his love for the new wave of traditional musicians, encounters with Bob Dylan and The Beatles and more