Death

That Fucking Tank

Tanknology

‘New’ J Dilla Album Gets June Release

Posthumous collection expands with Jay Stay Paid

Aurelian Rising: Gold Panda Interviewed

London’s premier proponent of strung-out dub laconica talks to Oli Simpson about hip-hop, Japan and coked-up porn fiends

Chilly Gonzales

Ivory Tower

Things Learned At: Rockaway Beach

At this year's annual Bognor pilgrimage, Patrick Clarke finds a Suede on compellingly romantic form (even for Suede), a rampant Killing Joke (accompanied by rampant Killing Joke merchandise), and a strange reverence for Butlin's tradition. Photographs by Maria Jefferis

Evicshen

Hair Birth

The debut album from Somerville, MA's Victoria Shen is a corroscating folio of sonic art, finds Richard Foster

These New Puritans

Field Of Reeds

Branchage Festival 2010: Scanner On His Magic Lantern Soundtrack

We kick off our coverage of this year's Branchage Festival with a chat with Robin Rimbaud, AKA Scanner, who'll be soundtracking a magic lantern show

It’s Tricky: Run-DMC’s Raising Hell Revisited

Thirty years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the genre-bending crossover album that was so much more than an over-played Aerosmith cover version.

Pinch & Shackleton

Pinch & Shackleton

When Crunk Met Classical: Micachu & The Shapes Interviewed

Mica Levi tells John Freeman how a collaboration with the London Sinfonietta created Chopped & Screwed – her homage to the Houston hip-hop scene

Sasha Renkas

Safe Place

From Kyiv, an album of 'nighttime music', all dreamy synths and hushed vocals, looks back with nostalgia across a ruined cityscape

Stir My Teenage Soul: Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor’s Favourite LPs

Karl O'Connor guides Luke Turner through the 13 teenage hits that made him Regis, with tales of smelling like a badger on the mail train to Brum and what happens when you get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten the wrong gravel on the way

Complete Communion: Jazz For January Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Peter Margasak hopes the music covered here doesn’t just suggest a high bar qualitatively for the year ahead, but that it also signals the worst is behind us, as many of these recordings are imbued with the sort of driving, triumphant spirit that we need to help us get back on our feet

Swans

My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

“Music In Which To Get Truly Lost”: Daniel Avery’s Favourite Records

The Phantasy producer and DJ goes from mid-teen discoveries to recent acquisitions as he writes us his own Baker's Dozen of top albums, EPs and mixes ahead of his b2b set with Erol Alkan at fabric later this month