Emerson String Quartet

WATCH: Manics Talk National Treasures

Check out ace short film here

99% Perspiration: Recommended Summer Reading

With contributions from Ned Beauman, Emily Berry and Joe Dunthorne, Nathalie Olah rounds up recommendations from authors, publishers, poets and editors for an impressive list of not-so-well-trodden holiday reading

Semibreve Festival Announces First Acts

Demdike Stare, patten and Ryoichi Kurokawa for Portuguese festival

Tim Hecker Announces New Album

Virgins on the way in October; expect "something like an attempt at the sound of frankincense in slow-motion"

Fantasma

Free Love

Quietus Christmas Party Info!

Grumbling Fur, Zun Zun Egui and Sex Swing all down for December do...

“It’s Music That Makes You Dance” – ESG Interviewed

Melissa Steiner talks to Renee Scroggins of seminal South Bronx, New York City punk funk outfit, ESG

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal Hits For September

Stride past the turgid patriarchy, says Kez Whelan, and rejoice in this autumn's righteous, furious, glorious metal offerings.

The xx Start Recording New Album

Band post brief announcement on website

Impulse! Records To Mark 60th Anniversary With Box Set Release

The legendary jazz label will bring together works by John Coltrane, Pharoah Sanders and more on the collection

Prime Bush Tucker: Luke Turner On Liars’ TFCF

Angus Andrew retreated to the remote Australian bush to make the first Liars album featuring himself as the sole member. Here's what he concocted.

In Pole Position: Jon Hassell Interviewed

Daniel Patrick Quinn interviews Jon Hassell about his long overdue book The North And South Of You and recent reissues of his music

The Bright Labyrinth: Chance And Repetition

In a selection of excerpts from his recent Strange Attractor-published book, The Bright Labyrinth, Ken Hollings discusses - via John Cage and Edgard Varèse - mass production, organisation, repetition and the (perhaps only) advantage human beings have over machines. (Illustrations by Matthew Frame)

Moviedrone! Charlie Brigden’s Best OST Albums Of 2019

From Midsommar and Us to box sets of classic horror and sci-fi, it's been a great year for movie music, says Charlie Brigden

Neil Young & When Musicians Lose Their Moral Compass

After Neil Young came close to breaking the cultural boycott of Israel recently, Nick MacWilliam looks at some other occasions of musicians throwing ethics to the wind