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Learning Through Listening: Shabaka Hutchings Favourite LPs

In anticipation of the release of Sons of Kemet's latest LP, Your Queen Is A Reptile and their appearance at this year's Field Day Festival, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings detailed the thirteen albums that shaped his experiences as both a man and a musician to Olamiju Fajemisin

Th1rt3en Best: Dave Mustaine Of Megadeth’s Favourite Albums

Continuing our celebration of three decades since 1986 marked a pivotal moment for thrash, the co-founder, singer and guitarist of one of the "Big Four" gives Mark Eglinton a rundown of his most formative records

Soundtrack To The Interzone: Justin Robertson’s Baker’s Dozen

In a self-penned Baker's Dozen, DJ and producer Justin Robertson recalls the thirteen pieces of music that soundtracked his rise from home counties obscurity to the outer edges of dance music, via run-ins with Jimmy Page and Mark E. Smith

The Favourite Albums Of Cornershop’s Tjinder Singh

Celebrate Cornershop's appearance in our mid-year compilations chart with Tjinder Singh's Baker's Dozen

LISTEN: The Best New Polish Music From Nowa

Tristan Bath visits Tauron Nowa Muzyka festival and reports back on some of the most exciting artists in the Polish underground

Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed

This charming documentary about punk rock poster artists examines the designers, collagers and scribblers behind the likes of Nirvana, Hole, The White Stripes and Lightning Bolt. _Died Young Stayed Pretty_ is showing this week at the ICA.

Johnny Yesno & Blood Music At Quietus Gig

With My Disco on Thursday

A Kind Of Visceral Quality: Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Favourite Records

With the imminent release of his score for Arrival, the latest in a now thriving partnership with Denis Villeneuve that will see him take on Blade Runner next year, the Icelandic composer shows traditional reluctance in crafting a list of defining albums and opts instead of 13 works that exemplify a philosophy of minimal gestures with maximum impact

Re-Score/Re-Issue: Touch Artists Soundtrack Pathé Colour Stencil Films

The BFI's new DVD collection Fairy Tales: Early Colour Stencil Films From Pathé features a bespoke score composed by the roster of pioneering independent label Touch. Anthony Nield assesses the results

Kelela Details New Album, ‘Raven’

The US artist's first album in more than five years is out in February

Whatever It Is, We Can Get Through It: An Interview With JD Samson

Disco will save us, heaven is other people, and we will survive. Ahead of her appearance at MIA's Meltdown, queer hero and renaissance woman JD Samson talks to Anna Wood

My Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music

The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg

Roland Online Studio Allows You To Play A TR-808 And TB-303

808303.studio is the work of Roland and Japanese designer Yuri Suzuki

The Right Things: David McAlmont’s Favourite Albums

As McAlmont And Butler mark the 20th anniversary of The Sound Of... with a deluxe reissue and a run of tour dates, David McAlmont pens us his own Baker's Dozen, moving through his 13 most formative albums

GALLERY: Tom Sheehan Exhibition

Ace music photographer picks out ten images from his Analogue exhibition. All photographs copyright Tom Sheehan

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