Patrick Corcoran

Sound Discrimination: April’s Rum Music By Russell Cuzner

Russell Cuzner tries to explain exactly what rum music is and reviews new releases by Lawrence English and Dream Weapon Ritual

Ekoplekz

Four Track Mind

Why Psychological Analysis Shows We’re Right To Worry For Musicians’ Mental Health

On Mental Health Awareness Week and following the sad death of Frightened Rabbit's Scott Hutchison, Catherine Loveday & Sally-Anne Gross of the University of Westminster look at recent research into the psychological issues affecting musicians (photo by Joe Puxley)

Short Fiction: From Lucy K Shaw’s ‘The Motion’

Published earlier this week by 421 Atlanta, this week's new writing is delivered in the shape of a short story from Lucy K Shaw's The Motion

Stop, Look, And Listen: Soundtracks At SFMOMA

Will Jennings listens to San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s landmark exhibition of sound art

The Third Man: William S. Burroughs At One Hundred

On the day that would mark the inimitable writer's centennial birthday, Darran Anderson considers the lifetime's work of a true genius and a true bullshit artist, and how - on issues as pressingly contemporary-seeming as censorship, surveillance and the War on Drugs - his work is as relevant now as it's ever been