Aziza Brahim

Abbar El Hamada

Raster-Noton Celebrate 20 Years With Book

The label celebrates two decades with hardback book and compilation

Pinkunoizu

The Drop

Bands Take A Stand Campaign Launched

Campaign aims to "use our collective voices as a vehicle for positive change" within music scene

LISTEN: Marram, Irvine Welsh & More Collab

First play of track from Transgressive North-curated album for Everything Is New project

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

More Green Man Names

Kings Of Convenience and Beak> among new acts

Remembering Betty Davis And Her Legacy

Betty Davis was a mover and a shaker in the Greenwich Village of the late-1960s, she was a great musician but was also politically, sexually and sonically progressive, an explosive mix that was too much for many people in her own day. Words by John Doran

A Babylonian Tower: Marc Hollander’s Favourite Music

Marc Hollander's Aksak Maboul have released one of the albums of the year and his Crammed Discs label have consistently provided a wide-ranging soundtrack to the globe. He guides David McKenna through favourite albums in this week's Baker's Dozen

FESTIVAL REPORT: Monkey Week

Despite being put out by an almost complete lack of monkeys, Laurie Tuffrey is pleased to find the Spanish showcase festival does nonetheless pack in a host of fine new bands

Years Of Cocktail-Flash: The Fall In 1980

Forty years ago, the mighty Fall hit one of their most majestic strides and made a string of unimpeachably excellent records. Angus Batey harks back

The Strange World of… Mike Vest

From demon-riffing drone-lords Bong to gruelling, piledriver punks Drunk In Hell, power trident-pronged psych outfit Blown Out, experimental soundtracking with Artifacts & Uranium, the atomic noise rock of Melting Hand and the crushing cosmic doom of 11Paranoias, plus a plethora of collaborations with luminaries from the Japanese psych underground, Mike Vest’s discography over the last decade is as dizzying as it gets. Ryan Walker attempts to deliver a guide to the 10 best points of entry

Afrofuturism Now! In Rotterdam

Event celebrating works of the black diaspora to host King Britt, Islam Chipsy and more in Rotterdam next month

Wakey, Wakey, Campers: Scott King Takes Britlins To Colchester

New Town animal John Quin reports from a furnished cage

RIP Mark E. Smith. The Quietus’ 60 Favourite Fall Songs

Quietus writers and guests including Brett Anderson, Stewart Lee, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Adrian Sherwood, Pat Nevin and Krishnan Guru-Murthy select 60 favourites from The Fall's back catalogue.

WATCH: Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou Album Trailer

Benin poly-rhythmic group share trailer for first new album since 2011; watch below