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New Martha Wainwright LP Due In October

Third studio album “a culmination of my life experiences so far”

Screen Wash: Are Music Docs Becoming Little More Than A PR Tool?

On the release of soft soap film Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin, Daniel Dylan Wray asks if music documentaries made in conjunction with their subjects can ever be anything other than a PR exercise, or "doc washing"

Trupa Trupa

Headache

Björk

Vulnicura

Reissue of the Week: Rythmetic – The Compositions of Norman McLaren

Though best known as a pioneering animator, a new compilation shines an overdue light on the parallel brilliance of Norman McLaren's sound work, says Daryl Worthington

LISTEN: New Xiu Xiu & Larsen

XXL, the collaborative project of Xiu Xiu and Larsen, announce new album

Bill Callahan’s 2001 Radio Session for John Peel, as Smog, to be Given New Release

The studio performance saw him and band perform Smog songs, and cover Stevie Nicks and Lou Reed

Machine & Voice: An Interview With Muscles Of Joy

Stuart Huggett meets Glasgow's Muscles Of Joy, a seven-strong band who use vocals and self-built instruments to create songs that are beguiling and jarring in equal measure

“Everything Was In The Moment”: An Interview With Manuel Göttsching

As he prepares to take the stage at the Barbican for Convergence Festival, performing a special version of E2–E4 plus material from the Ash Ra Tempel albums Schwingungen and 7Up, Manuel Göttsching talks to Bobby Barry about free music, minimalism, and being the loudest band in West Berlin

Robert Curgenven

They Tore The Earth And, Like A Scar, It Swallowed Them

Junk Shop Classical on George Walker: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

In August, 95-year-old American composer George Walker had his first-ever piece performed at the Proms, as part of a concert that became the breakout story of the festival. In his own way, he’s as radical and pioneering as Nina Simone, who was famously refused entry to the same music school that Walker had already graduated from

Songs from the Hearth: Allo Darlin’ Interviewed

London indie-pop group Allo Darlin' released their new single 'Capricornica' last month, with their second album Europe to follow in May. Robert Barry caught up with the band's Elizabeth Morris to talk about tough touring, food and the lure of home

Horns Up Ya Shitters! August’s Best Metal Reviewed

What is as good as Behemoth, asks Toby Cook. Not much, but anything close is reviewed in Columnus Metallicus this month

Sonic Router 004 – A Dubstep Column For July

LISTEN: Gum Takes Tooth Mix & New LP

London psychedelic dance unit announce new album and discuss this weekend's show at the Lex. Band photo by Marie Valognes

Riding The Storm: John Paul Jones & Helge Sten Of Minibus Pimps Interviewed

Julian Marszalek talks to former Led Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones and Deathprod man Helge Sten about their experimental new duo ahead of the release of their debut album Cloud To Ground