Homecoming: Ursula K Le Guin & Todd Barton’s The Music And Poetry Of The Kesh

Strange and familiar folk songs, inspired by Ursula K Le Guin’s own 1985 book, reissued by Freedom To Spend

Peter Harris, Fritz Catlin, Lee Scratch Perry

Mercy

Posthumous collaboration for the Upsetter featuring Peter Harris and 23 Skidoo's Fritz Catlin

Tyler, The Creator On Ban From UK

Rapper speaks out about ban from the UK which forced him to cancel a run of shows last week

Spool’s Out: The Top Tapes Of 2016 With Tristan Bath

Out tapes editor Tristan Bath is back with his top cassettes released in 2016

Out West: Patrick Haggerty Of Lavender Country Interviewed

Country's all men's men and woeful moaning about lost dames, right? Wrong: back in the early 70s Patrick Haggerty defied C&W conventions - and those of gay culture at the time - by releasing an out and proud country album. This is his story.

WATCH: Low – Just Make It Stop

First video from Low's recent The Invisible Way album; front page photograph courtesy of Zoran Orlic

Discogs Release 2015 Sales Stats

Music marketplace reveals more than 6 million records were sold through the site in 2015

The Inward Circles

Nimrod Is Lost In Orion And Osyris In The Doggestarre

Talent & Natural Game: S.H. Fernando Jr On The Wu-Tang Saga

S.H. Fernando, Jr, author of a new book about the Wu-Tang Clan, talks to Angus Batey about making skits with RZA and the fall of Ol' Dirty Bastard

Jarvis Cocker Issues Warning Over 6 Music Delays

Singer confesses "paranoid" fears

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for October by Daryl Worthington

A mixtape of Indonesian horror movie sounds, a doom metal supergroup from Beijing, the return of Felinto and a pair of artists embracing the sounds of insects. Daryl Worthington reports from the ever vibrant tape underground

Saw Losers: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Revisited

James Ubaghs revs himself up to revisit the horror classic

Elbow Working On New Album

Band have started on new material

Fuck Your Valentine: Carla Bozulich Tells A Story From A Harsh Life

Constellation artist Carla Bozulich attended a spoken word night at The Cowboy Gallery, LA on February 13 last year. Without planning to she started discussing the serious sexual assault inflicted on her as a child. She sent us this film of the reading and the accompanying essay. Film contains NSFW language

A Plague Of Soars – Warps In The Fabric Of Pop

Daniel Barrow explores "the soar", which he says is the defining trope in pop music in recent years

Not-So-Bitter Music: Ali ‘Perc’ Wells On His Favourite 13 Albums

We've sent that young rascal Tonka to interview Ali Wells about the albums that made him Perc, from Huey Lewis & The News to Pete Swanson, Aphex, and how Iron Maiden made his kick drum mockery-proof