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LIVE REPORT: Basinski, Chatham & Palestine

William Basinski, Charlemagne Palestine and Rhys Chatham arrive at St John's in Hackney for a night of collaboration. Patrick Smith reports, Fabio Lugaro takes the photos

Tim Smith Of Cardiacs Talks About His Illness

A campaign to help fund Tim Smiths' health care for the next year has passed the halfway mark. Here, the revered musician talks to Sean Kitching about the frustrations caused by his severe illness

LISTEN: Stream Maps’ New Album

Play Vicissitude in full via Spotify ahead of its release next week

Remix Phoenix!

The Creators Project want you to rework the band's Trying To Be Cool

The Enthusiasm: Carl Neville’s Eminent Domain Playlist

"A staggeringly ambitious and original work of political science fiction," (according to our review today), Carl Neville's Eminent Domain imagines a socialist utopia in the "People’s Republic of Britain". Here, the author picks the tracks that accompanied its writing

Inner Ear: Slovenian Music For May Reviewed By Jakub Knera

In his third report from the contemporary music scenes of eastern and central Europe, Jakub Knera looks at Slovenia’s underground scene including Širom's imaginary folk and string experiments by Tomaž Grom

Sam Mallet

Wetlands

In the music of the late Mauritian-Australian composer Sam Mallett, Dustin Krcatovich hears an ambient, synth-led sound just made for these times

LISTEN: Ben Vince & Jacob Samuel Collaborate

'fig 3' features on the first collaborative record from the pair

LISTEN: New Matthew Herbert Clip

Excerpt from Herbert's forthcoming release, The End Of Silence, based on recording of a bomb drop in Libya

Shirley Collins Southbank Celebration

Birthday celebration set for Queen Elizabeth Hall next month

Piercing Highs: Mondkopf’s Favourite Albums

Fittingly enough for a man who makes music of a decidedly bracing bent - be it the hulking techno of Mondkopf or the grindcore-inspired electronics of Extreme Precautions - French producer Paul Régimbeau's top 13 LPs are a suitably heavyweight suite. Brace yourself...

Realities & Fictions: The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Interviewed

John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats recently released their latest studio album Transcendental Youth. Erin Lyndal Martin sat with with Darnielle to discuss piano tuning, his pro-choice activism and the tensions between fiction and non-fiction in his work

Asher Levitas

Lit Harness

Jute Gyte

Oviri

Adam Kalmach steers clear of satanism, but that doesn't stop his music being as dark and haunting as anything else metal has to offer

Wand

1000 Days

Nils Frahm Details New Album, ‘Music For Animals’

It's his first studio LP since 2018