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Patrick Clarke On Hey Colossus’ The Guillotine

In The Guillotine Hey Colossus have hit a new peak just when it felt like there was no higher for them to climb. Patrick Clarke explores a ferocious call to arms and a militant articulation of turbulent times.

Moulding Voices: Julia Holter’s Favourite Albums

From a girl group compilation heard in childhood to more recently discovered singer-songwriters and jazz via a medieval mass, the LA composer talks Gary Kaill through some key albums in her record collection

Swans Live Album Now Available

LISTEN: Vince Clark Remixes Erasure

One-half of Erasure delivers a remix of, well, Erasure

Nowhere Man: ‘Slacker’ At 30 And The Evolution Of The Conspiracy Theorist

Richard Linklater's hangout classic Slacker turns 30 this year, and with it, the real-life parallels grow more curious. Conspiracy theorists often are those hiding in plain sight, finds Daniel Broadley

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For November By Daryl Worthington

From midi orchestras to Schopenhauer via compositions made from the sun’s own radio frequencies, Daryl Worthington finds the onset of autumn hasn’t dimmed the amount of inspiration to be found on cassettes this month

Prince: Revolutionary Transmissions From Beyond The Greatest Hits

While there's nothing wrong with a Prince hits anthology or two, this doesn't even begin to tell the story. Petra Davis, Joe Stannard, Al Denney, Wyndham Wallace, David Moats and John Tatlock choose their favourite non-single tracks... (republished 21st April 2016 - RIP Prince)

LISTEN: Stream Sarah Neufeld’s New LP

Listen to the violin composer's new album, Hero Brother; video for Forcelessness below

Marc Riley On Interviewing Lou Reed

All roads in music journalism lead to one place: a fraught conversation with a moody Lou Reed. Marc Riley remembers his two encounters with Chuckles

Battle Lines Of Meaning: These New Puritans’ Field Of Reeds Expanded

These New Puritans bring their Magic Resonator Piano and a host of supporting musicians to The Barbican for Field Of Reeds Expanded. Tim Burrows examines their quest to find "the elegiac and the sublime in the horrors and scars of southeast England
". Photo by Andy Wilshire

Ergot You Under My Skin: Tai Shani’s The Neon Hieroglyph

A special edition 12" featuring the voice of Molly Moody and the music of Maxwell Sterling accompanies the latest project from Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani

Gossip! Smiths Reform Speculation

Morrissey hints that Coachella have tried their hardest to coax him and Johnny Marr back to working together

TONIGHT: Fysisk Format Night

Årabrot, Haust and Dark Times on the bill for Norwegian label's event at the Old Blue Last

Post Global Music: David Pajo’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the reunited Slint playing shows this month and next, the hyper-prolific multi-instrumentalist hones his record collection down to a top 13

Jiving With Cosmic Debris: Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor Reviewed

In Dave Haslam's memoir, Sonic Youth Slept On My Floor, Fergal Kinney finds an eloquent chronicler of the city in Manchester and British club life in general

Close to Him: Tom Sheehan’s Pictures of The Cure

Pictures of You, a new photo book from Welbeck Publishing, explores the changing faces of Robert Smith and The Cure, as seen by former Melody Maker snapper, Tom Sheehan