Oliver Cookson

Funk Soul Brother: Alexis Taylor Of Hot Chip’s Favourite Albums

With his second solo album Await Barbarians released last month and a run of summer festival sets upcoming, the Hot Chip and About Group man gives Dom Smith his favourite album rundown

Junk Shop Classical on Vivaldi: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Unheard for 200 years, Vivaldi became a star for the second time when an Italian group had a hit album with The Four Seasons in 1955 – the same year that rock & roll exploded. But it was a brilliant 1970 recording by Britain’s Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields that, for better or worse, made it truly omnipresent

Jay Reatard

Watch Me Fall

Otto Preminger’s Laura Restored

Classic film noir returns to big screen tomorrow

Living City Plan: Laura Oldfield Ford At Grand Union, Birmingham

Laura Oldfield Ford's project for the Grand Union gallery explores the psychic resonances of the new Birmingham

Zonal Moor Mother London Debut On Thurs

My ears! My ears!

Organs Of Ecstasy: Ben Chasny’s Favourite Albums

Questing experimental guitar hero Ben Chasny, aka Six Organs Of Admittance, tells Ben Graham about 13 records that influenced his playing and shaped his worldview, from psychedelic Japanese noise rock to American Primitive acoustic fingerpicking

Again, Melancholy: Sarah Cracknell’s Favourite Albums

Off the back of releasing her second solo LP, Red Kite, the singer-songwriter and Saint Etienne member diligently jogged her memory, picked her 13 top records and made annotations. She talks Gary Kaill through her notes

Amanda Palmer On Mindfulness And Gender

"I'd sooner write a song than buy a gun", Amanda Palmer tells Erin Lyndal Martin