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All this and Ian McShane too: Grace Jones’ Slave To The Rhythm at 40

Keith Kahn-Harris celebrates a sometimes glorious, occasionally infuriating, always baffling album that remains entirely of its time

Forgotten Words: The Raincoats’ Three Lives

Audrey Golden's book, Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats, reframes punk history, making space for voices excluded from the usual male-dominated narratives of rock history

No Fucks Left To Give? Arab Strap Interviewed

“The internet is literally Thatcher’s Dream: an entire society of strangers out there working for themselves.” Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are back and – despite their protestations, says Elizabeth Aubrey – they patently care now more than ever

National Jazz Trio Of Scotland

Standards Volume III

Stealthy Living: John Grant at the Brighton Dome

The insidious rise of John Grant is a case for Mulder & Scully. But that doesn’t mean the success is undeserved

Remembering David Thomas of Pere Ubu, by Sean Kitching

Long-time fan Sean Kitching celebrates the legacy of a true ‘Crocus Behemoth’ of the avant garde, post punk, underground rock and pop Americana, David Thomas, who passed away yesterday after a long period of ill-health

My Music Is My Religion: Heather Leigh Interviewed

Eden Tizard talks to experimental musician Heather Leigh about her latest solo album Throne and her debut studio-based collaboration with Peter Brötzmann as a duo, Sparrow Nights

Wendy Eisenberg

Wendy Eisenberg

The Brooklyn-based guitarist swerves sideways from their work with Bill Orcutt and Squanderers to produce a finely-spun album of oneiric country pop and folk rock

Organic Intelligence XLII: British Bengalis in 90s Subculture

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm Puja Nandi celebrates five pioneering artists, from Asian Dub Foundation (pictured) to Osmani Soundz, who enriched the soundtrack of the pre-millennial UK by mixing drum & bass and electronica with the sounds of the Bengali diaspora

Keepin’ It Dirty: A celebration of ODB’s Return To The 36 Chambers: The Dirty Version

Cian Traynor celebrates the 30th birthday of a unique and brilliant album and re-appraises a hip hop anomaly by speaking to some of those who knew its creator, Ol' Dirty Bastard, the best. This feature was originally published on 30 March 2015

Reissue of the Week: Roland Brival’s Créole Gypsy

Mary Chiney gets to grips with a holy grail of Antillean music, Roland Brival's seamless marriage of American spiritual jazz with the ancestral roots of Martinique’s bèlè and carnival traditions

Impermanent Everything: DARKSIDE Interviewed

Liam Inscoe-Jones sits down to talk with Nicolás Jaar, Dave Harrington and Tlacael Esparza about their new album Nothing, out later this month. Main portrait by Aurelie Sauffier

A Life Less Ordinary: Jonny Cola And Heidi Heelz Interviewed

Jonny Cola And The A-Grades release a new 7" today - only a few months after the lead singer had a kidney transplant operation, with his girlfriend Heidi Heelz acting as donor. Lisa Jenkins reports

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Autumn, by Patrick Clarke

In the second instalment of his guide to the best in new, forward-thinking folk music, Patrick Clarke explores the relationship between musicians old and new, and rounds up ten of the finest new releases

LISTEN: Hookworms – In Our Time

Tour dates, including gig with Bo Ningen, below

Incubate Line-Up Finalised

Tilburg Festival announces last set of acts including Wire's DRILL : STAGE