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LOOP: Statement, Reissue News

Robert Hampson releases full statement about Loop reformation, plus news about reissues of classic LPs

Pan’s People: Blood Ceremony Interviewed

With her fourth album out this month Blood Ceremony's Alia O'Brien talks to Louise Brown about how the occult rock coven is taking over and how her PHD in ethnomusicology challenged her to travel down new musical paths

The Cribs’ Jarman Brothers on Their Love of Boxing

The Wakefield brothers spar with Fergal Kinney about the unlikely – and mutual – love affair between The Cribs and the combat sport.

Afrika Bambaataa has Died, Aged 68

The contentious hip hop and electro veteran had faced multiple allegations of sexual assault that emerged over the past decade

They Do What They Do: Lyra Pramuk Interviewed

On the release of her debut album, Lyra Pramuk shares some thoughts on spirituality, beauty, kinship, research and hope with Ollie Zhang

An Ommadawn Chorus: Mike Oldfield’s Favourite Albums

As Mike Oldfield releases new album Return To Ommadawn he guides Gary Kaill through 13 albums that he listened to before he began making music - after which he never listened to much music at all

Shut Your Eyes And See: Félicia Atkinson Interviewed

Ahead of her appearance at this year’s Semibreve festival in Braga, Portugal, the French musician talks to David McKenna about nature, nurture and musicians as “machines that constantly need rebooting”

Bingo Bastards Break Out: Heads Down With Bad Guys

Ahead of supporting Ten Benson at the Lex on Saturday, Matt Ridout gets serious with East-London's premier metal pranksters

New War

New War

No Commercial Value: Nigel Ayers Interviewed

Amelia Phillips speaks to Nigel Ayers, aka industrial musician Nocturnal Emissions about a lifetime of resistance

Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London

As the polls close in the contest to become Labour's candidate for London Mayor, we publish an interview with Ken Livingstone on music, politics, the day Thatcher dies, and who would be better at running London: Boris or Boris?

The January Subscriber Playlist is Here!

Dispel the winter gloom! Our subscribers can catch up with all the music we wrote about last month

The Strange World Of… Chris Watson

Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early tape experiments to recording at Chernobyl, via a founding stint in Cabaret Voltaire

End Days Intensity: The Comet Is Coming Interviewed

Groovy cosmic trio and one of the Quietus' favourite new bands The Comet Is Coming talk to Tristan Bath about recording their debut Prophecy EP, dancing as a form of worship and their crystal of cosmic power

Thundercat

Distracted

The latest from the Californian bass wizard has features from luminaries like Tame Impala, Lil Yachty, A$AP Rocky and the late Mac Miller, but it's unmistakably a Thundercat record through and through, finds Mary Chiney

Peer Reviewed: Wacław Zimpel Interviews James Holden… And Vice Versa

Polish jazz musician Wacław Zimpel speaks to British electronic producer James Holden in an exclusive two-way interview that gets to grips with practice and inspiration, speaking from one artist directly to another