Ahead of her performance at this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, Tanita Tikaram takes Luke Turner through her favourite records, from the soundtrack of her childhood spent in military bases, via formative encounters with OMD and The Beatles, an abiding love of the jazz and soul greats, and more
The Black Angels take a long, dark trip on their new album Death Song. Guitarist Christian Bland tells Julian Marszalek why psychedelics might help change things for the better, and about being the parents of psychedelia's live revival
As Algiers release second album The Underside Of Power, an explosive combination of gospel, noise and righteous politics, Luke Turner visited the band on the Berlin leg of their current European stadium tour with Depeche Mode.
Kuedo, the producer formerly known as Jamie Vex'd, has made one of the most striking electronic albums of the year in Severant. Rory Gibb speaks to him about his working process, the nature of scenes and past visions of the future