Martin Rossiter

Rival Dreamer: Burial’s Tunes, 2011 to 2019

Beneath the crackle and hiss, Adam Lehrer finds a portal to a better future in a new compilation of Burial's 12"s and EPs

Lightning Strikes Twice: Nicholas Lezard On PiL’s Metal Box

Critic Nicholas Lezard looks back 40 years to the post punk versus punk stand off between Public Image Ltd and The Clash, and finds, in John Lydon at least, an example of lightning striking twice in the same place

Hüsker Dü

Savage Young Dü

Huge great 69-track boxset chronicling the early years of Hüsker Dü: a landscape-mangling tornado of sound, music that contains multitudes.

Why Grim 2011 Is The Right Time For The Return Of Chic

"Contemporary pop waterboards us with negatives," says Mof Gimmers. This is why the return of the proudly aspirational Chic and Nile Rodgers should be welcomed

Access All Areas: Barbara Charone’s Baker’s Dozen

The legendary music PR talks to Lucy O’Brien about the albums and the people who have most inspired her, from the Rolling Stones to Madonna, and why artists aren’t necessarily your friends

The Death Of Dissent: Richard H Kirk’s Baker’s Dozen

With the release of the Richard H Kirk and Sandoz box sets, the Cabaret Voltaire lynchpin takes us through thirteen of his favourite and most enduring albums

The Big Pink

A Brief History Of Love

Magical Cuts: Anthony ‘Surgeon’ Child’s Favourite Music

With the new Surgeon album one of the highlights of 2023 so far, Anthony Child guides Luke Turner through a psychedelic journey that takes in The Cure, King Tubby, Sylvester and Alice Coltrane, and John Taverner’s quest for the sonic divine

Where I’m Coming From: Visionist’s 13 Favourite Albums

From a love for choral music inspired by his grandmother, to discovering Steve Reich at school, setting up a label just to release SD Laika and seeing Cocteau Twins on Top Of The Pops 2, Visionist picks the thirteen albums that made him the artist he is today

Exclusive: Liars Talk Yorke & Sisterworld Remix Album

Angus, Aaron and Julian explain how to email Thom Yorke and befriend the Melvins

A Greater Coming Together: Holly Herndon’s Proto

Often stories of new technology are laden with the anxiety of being replaced - being bettered by something that has a more calculable claim to existing, but with Proto, Holly Herndon explores the possibility of true collaboration with the mechanical

Coming Up For Air: Sylphine Soporifera by Antonina Nowacka

The Polish sound artist's latest album evokes strange hypnagogic states formed from zithers, ocarinas, bamboo flutes, and whistles

Parallel Worlds: Peter Strickland’s Favourite Albums

On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites

A Presidential Suite: Chilly Gonzales’s Favourite Albums

The man they call Gonzales/Gonzo/Chilly Gonzales/Jason Charles Beck picks out his favourite 13 records

Psychedelic Odin: William Blake’s Gift To Musicians

From Julian Cope to, er, Fat Les, as Tate Britain opens its major new show about William Blake, John Higgs, the author of William Blake Now, looks at the great mystic painter-poet's influence on contemporary pop

Erase & Rewind: Peter Fischli’s Reqiuem For Painting

A new show curated by Peter Fischli for the Fondazione Prada in Venice recounts the many deaths of the art of painting