Samia Qayium

Pietu Arvola

Meidän täytyy valvoa jottemme nukkuisi, sillä maailma on liukas

Inspired equally by Fallout 4 and the Covid-19 pandemic, one quarter of Musta Huone heads deep into the murmur of the forest

Ligeti Quartet x Anna Meredith

Nuc

An album of buzzing, bubbling string quartets by Anna Meredith, performed by the Ligeti Quartet

Brötzmann: That’s When The World Is Mine Director Interviewed

Best known for documentaries about Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten, for his latest project Uli M Schueppel has profiled German avant-guitarist Caspar Brötzmann. The director talked to Dino Gollnick at the recent Berlin Film Festival

Akke Phallus Duo

Terroir/Pissoir

The Essence And The Purity: Rob Halford Of Judas Priest’s Favourite LPs

With their Redeemer Of Souls tour bound for Scandinavia after wrapping up the UK leg at Brixton Academy last night, the heavy metal veterans' singer takes Alex Macrow through his top 13 "game changers" of rock & roll

Songs Are Powerful Things: Marry Waterson’s Baker’s Dozen

Marry Waterson might have been born into a folk dynasty but that didn't stop her becoming a biker. With a new LP out and her mother and uncle's Bright Phoebus LP recently reissued, she guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite LPs from The Beatles to The Band and Billie Holiday

Blur, The Olympics & The Never-ending 1990s Hangover

Blur's presence at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics is part of the legacy of New Labour, the '90s and the Millennium Dome, argues Luke Turner

Horns Up Ya Shitters! July’s Best Metal Reviewed

Toby Cook has run out of things to say about drugs! Luckily it's a bumper month of releases from Om, Testament, Bestial Holocaust and more...

Riley Gale Of Power Trip Has Died

Singer with the pulverising Texan thrash metal band, Gale passed away on Monday

Jazz Is My Religion: Idris Ackamoor’s Baker’s Dozen

In a sprawling Baker’s Dozen, longstanding jazz legend Idris Ackamoor tells Siobhán Kane about the way Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Bob Marley and more have inspired his life and work

Post Global Music: David Pajo’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the reunited Slint playing shows this month and next, the hyper-prolific multi-instrumentalist hones his record collection down to a top 13

Opening The Show: When The Television Personalities Met Nirvana

In an exclusive extract from his new book *Dreamworld, Or: the fabulous life of Dan Treacy and his band The Television Personalities*, Benjamin Berton records the meeting between Dan Treacy and Kurt Cobain

On Her Radio: Pauline Black’s 13 Favourite Albums

The Selecter leader and one of 2 Tone's most formidable figures takes Lois Wilson from Jimmy Cliff to Björk in this list of the LPs that shaped her