Rich Hughes

Aspirational Music: Hiro Kone’s Favourite Tracks

From the duduk to spiritual jazz, Hiro Kone's Nicky Mao guides Bernie Brooks through a selection of thirteen tracks that informed and inspired her latest LP, Silvercoat The Throng

Pillars Of Childhood: Lafawndah’s Favourite Music

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Lafawndah picks the thirteen pieces of music that made her "want to say things," from Schubert to Busta Rhymes via Midori Takada and Lady Saw

New Spoken Word LP Set To Celebrate The Poetry Of Sun Ra

'My Words Are Music' features contributions from L'Rain and TV on The Radio's Tunde Adibempe, among others

Sex-Gore Netherworld: Nightbirds & The Body Beneath Disinterred

Manish Agarwal explores the singular, subterranean work of micro-budget filmmaker Andy Milligan, subject of a new BFI Flipside release

Pet Shop Boys

Yes

Pigs X7 Share New Track, ‘Rubbernecker’

It's the second track to be unveiled from the Rocket Recordings band's new album

The Things We Collect: An Extract From Nina Simone’s Gum By Warren Ellis

In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory

Low Culture Podcast 21: Edward George On Whitney Houston

This month for Low Culture subscribers John Doran speaks to Edward George about the tyranny of Whitney Houston's 'I Will Always Love You'

Véronique Vincent & Aksak Maboul

Ex-Futur Album [The Unfinished Avant-Pop Album/1980-1983]

The Ting Tings

Sounds From Nowheresville

Bombarded With Asteroids: Richard Hawley’s Favourite Albums

Before he heads off on a tour of the UK tomorrow, the Sheffield singer-songwriter and quiffsman takes Sharon O'Connell through the rock & roll, blues and rockabilly albums that shaped his early listening

Le Tigre Reveal Reunion Tour Dates

Kathleen Hanna, JD Samson, and Johanna Fateman are lining up shows across the UK, Europe and North America through this year

UFOmammut

ORO: Opus Primum

LIVE REPORT: Fat White Family

As Fat White Family bring their third album Serfs Up to EartH in London, Luke Turner witnesses a new-found professionalism that does nothing to dampen the band's sordid power. Photos by Valerio Berdini

Boom-Para-Boom Meets Blah Blah Blah: Nothing To Declare By 700 Bliss

DJ Haram and Moor Mother show some of their lighter side – without losing any of the heaviness, finds Antonio Poscic