Maxwell Shand

Les Conches Velasques

Celebración Del Trance Profano

With adaptions of Moroccan and Spanish folk music and soaring guitar-playing by Thomas House of Sweet Williams, Concepción's Les Conches Velasques have come up with something very special indeed, finds Noel Gardner

Staying With The Trouble: The Collective by Kim Gordon

The hip hop-adjacent second solo album from the ex-Sonic Youth linchpin perfectly captures modernity’s constant buzz of anxiety, finds Arusa Qureshi

Faith No More’s Angel Dust & The Art Of Following Up A Phenomenon

Jeremy Allen looks back 25 years to Faith No More's Angel Dust and finds a band devising strategies to deal with their phenomenal and unexpected success

New Club, Peckham Audio, To Open In South London

The venue, based on Rye Lane in Peckham, opens later this month

Umm Kulthum: Queen Of The Nile

It is the 40th anniversary of the death of the Middle East's most revered singer, Umm Kulthum. Yousif Nur gives us a brief introduction to the Nightingale Of The Nile and selects his favourite ten tracks by her

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Foot Of The Mountain

Robyn Hitchcock

The Man Upstairs

A New Dance: Dele Sosimi’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his new album You No Fit Touch Am earlier this year, the Fela and Femi Kuti collaborator, lecturer and exponent of all things Afrobeat gives Richie Troughton a playback of his all-time top 13 LPs

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The White Album

Cowley At The Glory Hole: The Art Of Queer Liberation

Taking a holy trinity of Patrick Cowley's sex journals, Roy Garrett's poetry and Maxx Mann's forthcoming reissue, Max Shand explores the joy and tragedy of the queer American underground, from 70s exuberance to the 80s AIDS crisis

Palm Desert Discs: John Garcia’s Favourite Albums

With his self-titled debut solo album out earlier this year and a run of UK shows imminent, the former Kyuss man has been wringing his hands over picking 13 all-time favourite LPs. Mark Eglinton helps him boil it down

First Names For Berlin Atonal

Powell & Wolfgang Tillmans, Pan Daijing and more will play the Berlin festival this summer

WATCH: Chrononautz Singapore Video Diary

Techno duo share video diary of their two-day visit as part of Zhang Ding's Enter the Dragon project ahead of Simple Things appearance later this month; watch below. Photo courtesy of BirdHead