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A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums

With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums. And, with the help of beers, a record player and one powerful deployment of the phrase "get to utter fuck", here's what he picked

Emotion And Power: Roskilde Festival 2019 Reviewed

At Denmark's biggest and best festival, Patrick Clarke and Richard Foster find an event that shows the possibilities of emotional expression

British Sea Power

From The Sea To The Land Beyond

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter To Score New Ballet

'Mythologies', Bangalter's first post-Daft Punk project, premieres in 2022

Fat White Family Hit Paydirt: Serfs Up! Reviewed

Adelle Stripe feels the caressing sting of Fat White Family’s triumphant third album

Death Grips’ The Money Store: Track-By-Track

Slot machines in hell. 2-Live Crew meets Tetsuo: Body Hammer. A grenade at a debutante's ball. An upside down sermon on the mount. John Calvert gets to grips with The Money Store

Rock Of Ages: Mick Jagger At 70 & The Rise Of Pop’s Elders

Fucking Mick Jagger, says David Stubbs, he'll never stop... why should he? But he could choose some better birthday party guests...

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Roundup For February

Green Druid, Black Moth, Visigoth, Saxon, Vojd and Judas Priest: hold on and holler!

Trading Faces: 10 Body-Switching Movies

As the insipid-looking Zach Efron vehicle _17 Again_ threatens to invade our cinemas, David Bax from the Battleship Pretension podcast looks back on the often overlooked (and rightly so) body-switching film genre.

Reissue Of The Week: Felt’s Gold Mine Trash & Bubblegum Perfume

From fiercely puritanical post-punk aesthetes to open-minded artistic explorers: across two career-spanning compilations, Felt present a unique interpretation of a decade they professed to despise, writes Ben Graham

Hyperspecific: The Best Electronic Music Of 2023

Our dance music editor surveys the most exciting and the dullest trends of 2023, and presents his top ten electronic records from the past twelve months

MoMA Mia! Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present Reviewed

Val Phoenix watches this feature profile of the Belgrade-born, New York-based performance artist, which opens in UK cinemas today

LISTEN: Gravenhurst Remixes 9Bach

Nick Talbot reworks Lliwiau from the duo's upcoming LP Tincian and fills us in on his back story with the band

LISTEN! New Pixies!

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Ever Get The Feeling You’ve Cheated Yourself? Billy Bragg Live In Southend

Tim Burrows leaves his cynicism about the Bard of Barking at the door when attending a gig that's a kind of homecoming and finds a new sense of regret at ignoring one of the greatest songwriters of the past 40 years

By Design: Jim Jones Of The Righteous Mind’s Favourite Albums

Before they headline Walthamstow's Stow Festival this weekend, The Righteous Mind's leader gives Julian Marszalek an insight into "where my head is at right now" with a tour through his current top 13 albums