D'Angelo

Manic Street Preachers Detail New Album, ‘Critical Thinking’

They've also shared the lead single, 'Hiding In Plain Sight', which features Nicky Wire on lead vocals

One True Pairing

Endless Rain

Former Wild Beast releases his inner sad boy, but there’s weirdness to the moping, finds Jeremy Allen

Bashy

Being Poor Is Expensive

Fifteen years after his last album (and with a gaggle of prestigious film and TV roles now under his belt), Ashley Thomas returns to the grime sound of his early mixtapes and his own memories of growing up in Hammersmith and Kensal Rise

Unnatural Blues: How Moby’s Play Predicted The Collapse Of The Music Industry

25 years after it was first released we should now regard Moby's Play as the first album of the 21st Century, says Ed Gillet. This article was first published on 13 May 2019

Gaswerk Music Days Announces Programme

Nyege Nyege artists and more for Berlin event in Jully

The Strange World Of… Marissa Nadler

As she gears up for the release of her latest album New Radiations, Marissa Nadler guides Irina Shtreis through her sprawling discography via 10 essential tracks

The House Of Love

Live At The Lexington

Dance ‘Til The Police Come: Post-Punk Politics In 2012

In our latest Wreath Lecture, Joe Kennedy argues that now the flaccid post punk revival of ten years ago is over, in 2012 artists are making music that embraces the imperative to move forward and reflect troubled times. Header image: artwork for test pressing of Prurient's Bermuda Drain

The Right Things: David McAlmont’s Favourite Albums

As McAlmont And Butler mark the 20th anniversary of The Sound Of... with a deluxe reissue and a run of tour dates, David McAlmont pens us his own Baker's Dozen, moving through his 13 most formative albums

WATCH: Fat White Family At Dot To Dot

Fat Whites play 'I Am Mark E Smith' at Dot To Dot; watch below. Footage captured by Fred Perry Subculture

Occupy Pop! Your Guide To Revolution by Mary Ocher

Berliner takes radical politics and 12th-century Persian poetry and sets them to an infectious disco beat, finds Ilia Rogatchevski

A Deadhead Sticker on a Cadillac: Don Henley’s ‘The Boys Of Summer’ at 40

Don Henley’s melancholy, uncanny ‘The Boys of Summer’ might be the ultimate song of the 1980s, says Toby Manning, as he takes a deep dive into the track four decades on

Between Fine Art and the Total Environment: At Home with Mondrian

In an exclusive extract from his new biography of the artist, Nicholas Fox Weber peeks inside the Paris home of Piet Mondrian to find “a unique combination of poetry and toughness”

Golden Seams: Mahōgakkō by Hakushi Hasegawa is our Album of the Week

The new album from Brainfeeder Records’ latest signing is as dizzying, complex and contradictory as life itself, finds Claire Biddles

Wave After Wave: Leah Kardos on the Legacy of Kate Bush’s Hounds of Love

In an exclusive extract from her new book for Bloomsbury's 33 1/3 series, Leah Kardos looks at the enduring influence of Kate Bush's masterpiece on subsequent artists, from Tori Amos to Suede

Compilation of the Week: Rəhman Məmmədli’s Azerbaijani Gitara Volume 2

Upon the first Western release of his music, Jakub Knera explores the work of a musician whose amazing guitar solos combine east and west traditions