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Primavera Sound 2010: Five Festival Moments Not To Be Missed

Kev Kharas is off to Primavera tomorrow, the bastard. Here's a Dragnet special on his top picks and why the Barcelona bash is an antidote to 'festival season'

Rum Music: The Best Of 2022 Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan plucks her essential releases from this year's onslaught of sonic activity in the Zone, from hurdy gurdy and home-made modulars to gamelan and music made under Swedish bridges

William Basinski

Lamentations

Two decades after *Disintegration Loops* made his name, William Basinski is rummaging through his tape box again with ever lovelier results

The Quietus List of Lists: Albums, Tracks & Ephemera Of 2008

The Quietus isn't just about stern power ambient and arboreal black metal. To prove this we invited writers and pals to share their best-of-lists. Thanks to our friend Sam Scott Hunter for the main pic.

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We Loved This September

As the days and your life get shorter, settle in with Yves Tumor, Pig Destroyer, Gazelle Twin and Alice Coltrane

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October Reviewed By JR Moores

Our intrepid reporter, JR Moores, investigates the latest psych and noise-rock offerings, reviewing new releases from King Gizzard, Silver Apples and Makoto Kawabata, Carlton Melton and more

Jack White’s Blunderbuss: Track By Track

Last night, Jack White hosted a playback of his debut solo album in London. Julian Marszalek was there, and reports on an album clearly influenced by White's time in Nashville

Missing Pieces: Connie Converse & The Age Of The Great Lost Artist

Howard Fishman’s book about a long-forgotten early 50s singer-songwriter, *To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse* is all the more beguiling for what it doesn’t tell us, finds Darren Hayman

Remembering Kevin Morpurgo

JR Moores speaks to friends and collaborators of Kevin Morpurgo, aka Philly Kev, who pay tribute to the much-loved musician following news of his death this week

A Bridge Too Far-Sighted? Exhibition Recalls Collaboration Of Thomas Leer & Robert Rental

In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing legacy

WATCH: Elza Soares Interview

The septuagenarian Brazilian singer discusses her new album of samba sujo, The woman at the end of the world, out on Friday

Remembering Betty Davis And Her Legacy

Betty Davis was a mover and a shaker in the Greenwich Village of the late-1960s, she was a great musician but was also politically, sexually and sonically progressive, an explosive mix that was too much for many people in her own day. Words by John Doran

Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

What will aliens make of our planet's recent psych and noise-rock offerings, ponders JR Moores

Gigs In Space: An Interview With PVA

Ella Harris and Josh Baxter of South London alt-dance outfit PVA speak to Patrick Clarke about their hectic rise, pandemic-enforced break, and bold plans for the future

Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough On Ian Nairn’s No Two The Same

In this month's Low Culture Essay, Travis Elborough revisits No Two The Same, a documentary about London's Pimlico that reveals many of the foibles of its creator, thirsty outsider and outspoken architecture critic Ian Nairn