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Things Learned At: Houghton 2017

With the team behind Wales' Gottwood Festival debuting a new weekender on the grounds of Houghton Hall earlier this month with the aide of fabric resident Craig Richards, Christian Eede headed along to Houghton's first edition and tapped into an unshakable sense of hedonism in the process. All photos courtesy of Jake Davis at Hungry Visuals

Pharmakon Announces New Album

Sacred Bones will release 'Devour' next month

Cross-Genre Delights: Incubate Festival 2011

Frances Morgan travels to the Incubate Festival in Tilburg to take part in a panel discussion about DIY culture, and gets lost in a weekend's worth of musical intrigue

Bo Ningen & Savages Collaborate On Single

Re-record of track from last album featuring Jehnny Beth will be out in January

Warm Announce Autumn Nights Ft Ben UFO, Dixon & Ame

London club promoters announce excellent autumn series of nights, based largely at Plastic People

In The Nonspace Of The Mind: Lee Gamble’s In A Paraventral Scale

In the first part of his “triptych sonic documentary” Flush Real Pharynx, Gamble plays with the jarring dynamics between swelling cities, virtual spaces and half-forgotten people

La Roux On Tour

Pop princess announces UK dates

Mouth Of The Mersey: Ian McCulloch’s Favourite Albums

Gregarious Scouser Mac tells Rod Kitson what’s what about his favourite albums in one of the most entertaining Baker’s Dozens we’ve run so far

20 Years Later: The Agony And The Ecstasy Of St Theresa

The fall of Communism, John Peel and absinthe: some of the ingredients behind Ecstasy Of St Theresa's Free-D (Original Soundtrack), the first album made by a Czech act for a Western label after the collapse of the Eastern Bloc. Wyndham Wallace sets the story free

WATCH: Rewire 2018 Post-Festival Video

Laurie Anderson features in a video looking back over this year's edition of Rewire festival

LISTEN: New Walls Track Here

Strange Refuge: Holly Johnson Discusses His Favourite Albums

In our final Baker's Dozen of 2014, Ian Wade talks to the former Frankie Goes To Hollywood frontman following the release of Europa, his first solo album in 15 years, about his all-time top 13 LPs