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Indie-gestion: With Universal Ravenously Hungry, is the Independent Label Sector Facing an Existential Crisis?

As the Universal Music Group gobbles up independent stalwart PIAS, music biz expert Eamonn Forde asks if this corporate greed suggests bleak times are ahead for the rest of the indie ecosystem

The Ultimate Fuck You: McAlmont & Butler’s ‘Yes’ Revisited

In-Between Days: Wind, Again by Sary Moussa

A long-term fixture on Beirut’s underground experimental music scene, the latest from Sary Moussa is caught between the political and the personal, the whisper close and wide-open space. Wind, Again is an album whose contradictions make it all the more compelling, finds Kirsteen McNish

Lucrecia Dalt Details New Album, ‘A Danger To Ourselves’

Out in September, it features contributions from David Sylvian

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

Reissue of the Week: Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith

Genre purism be damned – there is no surer evidence of jazz’s immortality than the enduring influence of Expansions, Lonnie Liston Smith’s ecstatic, eclectic and resolutely non-denominational call to spiritual arms, argues Stevie Chick

Repeat to Remember: Insatiable by Divide and Dissolve

Making their debut on the Bella Union label, Takiaya Reed’s brutal, brilliant metal project finds love beneath the doom resulting in the group’s most epically scaled album so far

Organic Intelligence XLI: Toronto Goth of the 80s & 90s

In our latest antidote to the algorithm, Jonathan Wright visits his younger self in 1980s Canada, when goth was on a rise as steep as his backcombed hair

Porcine Pre-eminence: An Interview With Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

In the wake of a blistering debut LP and a trio of incendiary live shows, Patrick Clarke speaks to Newcastle's Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs

Album of the Week: Mohammad Mostafa Heydarian’s Noor-e Vojood

The second album by a young master of the tanbur reminds Kamyar Salavati of a special trip to the mountains of Kermanshah in Iran

Reissue of the Week: Violent Femmes’ Hallowed Ground

Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin, as he re-examines its unfairly overlooked follow-up Hallowed Ground 40 years on

Even The Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996 

Reviewing a new Light In The Attic compilation of Ukrainian music, Richard Foster explores how artists were able to find a voice and sense of identity against the strictures of Russian communism

The Coolest State: Bronski Beat’s The Age Of Consent At 40

Ahead of a reissue of the classic Bronski Beat debut album Lesley Chow talks about one of the great pop albums of 1984

Killing It In America: An Interview With Uniform

With their second album of industrial noise punk metal fury out now, Noel Gardner talks downward spirals, overloaded drum machines and pulp fiction with NYC duo Uniform