Colin McKean

Flip Your Wig: Bob Mould’s Favourite Albums

With his new, eleventh solo album Beauty & Ruin just released, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar man gives Nick Hutchings his top 13 records

Voiceless Voices: An Interview With Rachel Kushner

Marking the paperback release of her much-talked-about second novel, The Flamethrowers, Jess Cotton speaks to author and journalist Rachel Kushner about the artistic magnetism of the 1970s, the influence of the visual arts and working with the idea of the gaze in her writing

LIVE REPORT: Billy Bragg

Julian Marszalek sees an intimate gig by Billy Bragg at London's Lexington

Omar Souleyman

To Syria, With Love

Omar Souleyman swaps a little bit of his dabke joy for heartbreak, and creates his heaviest, hardest record in years.

Horns Up Ya Shitters! June’s Best Heavy Metal Reviewed

Toby Cook takes you on a riff-splattered tour through the month's best metal - from Shining and Autopsy to Power Trip and Death Trip - all the while subliminally commanding you to stop what you're doing and listen to more Bongripper

No Definitive Version: Nate Young’s Most Influential Records

Nate Young talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about what made his music, from teenage revelations, learning when to press record, and roofing with Scott Asheton.

For Folk’s Sake To Make London Debut

First London show tonight

In Place: Yann Tiersen’s Favourite Albums

With his ninth album, EUSA, out now, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist takes Fred Jage-Bowler from the Velvets to Bill Callahan via NEU!, Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom on a tour of his favourite records

“It’s Entertainment, You Know?” Trevor Horn’s Favourite Albums

Producer and innovator Trevor Horn guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite albums, telling tales of how Kraftwerk led him to breaking the Official Secrets Act and tripping to Yes

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith

The Kid

The new album from Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith threatens to be whimsical then becomes something much richer and more powerful.

Billy Childish, Bloc Party and Billy Bragg Write Punk Book

In Fair England: Fairport Convention’s Liege & Lief At 50

Yes they probably invented folk rock but also, on their landmark third album, Fairport Convention, presented a view of England that has now been lost... one of violent division along lines of class and gender but one that was also positive and questing, says Michael Hann

Rum Music: Psychological Releases From The Outer Reaches

Russell Cuzner explores recent albums from the far leftfield, including posthumous work by Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson, Nurse With Wound, Michal Jacaszek, and a Russell Haswell with Pain Jerk collaboration

Bring To Light Festival Just Two Weeks Away

Supersonic organisers' new weekender, featuring Dinos Chapman and Josephine Foster among others, taking place October 25-27

The Power Of Disguise: Gazelle Twin Interviewed

Al Denney talks to the fantastic Elizabeth Walling - the brains behind Gazelle Twin - about image, art and ghosts

Saint Etienne

So Tough & Sound Of Water reissues