Green Man Festival

ART WAR! An Appreciation Of The Films Of Jeff Keen

Jeff Keen has been making insanely creative, uncompromisingly original films since the early 60s. Dave Moats salutes his D.I.Y. ethos as the BFI release his entire oeuvre on DVD.

Bandcamp Fully Launches Live Stream Service For Artists

It was first trialled in September with the help of Matmos, Sarah Davachi and Mary Lattimore

Psychedelic Meditation: Kurt Vile’s Favourite Albums

As he starts the UK leg of touring b'lieve i'm goin down…, the Philadelphian singer-songwriter goes from live free jazz to dry-humoured piano sketches in picking 13 albums that steered the sound of his sixth album

The Pop Group: First UK Tour

Plus reissue of We Are Time, which they'll be performing in full live, and new rarities album in October

In Praise Of John Cale, The Superior Velvet, By Daniel Dylan Wray

It seems odd to argue that a member of one of the most celebrated rock bands of all time, the Velvet Underground, is under-appreciated, says Daniel Dylan Wray in this subscriber only essay, until you consider just how absent he is from conversations about popular music

A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums

With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums. And, with the help of beers, a record player and one powerful deployment of the phrase "get to utter fuck", here's what he picked

LISTEN: New Dunning & Underwood

Dunning & Underwood preview their new release for Front & Follow

Gravenhurst

The Ghost In Daylight

Telo Hoy

Rubber Wing

An album of compositions for vibraphone and electronics which lets process take centre-stage

The Opposite Of Words: Albert Oehlen On Pop, Posters, And Process

In an exclusive extract from a major new career-spanning book about Albert Oehlen, Alexander Klar interviews the German painter about the end and origin of his dazzling, abstract images

The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion Hang Out All The Dirtiest Hits

Down The Rabbit Hole: Will Sergeant’s Favourite Albums

Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant takes Richard Foster through thirteen favourite albums from The Residents to Love, recalls making records with his dad’s electric shaver and a stringless guitar, explains why it’s time to stop bashing prog rock, and much, much more

‘New’ J Dilla Album Gets June Release

Posthumous collection expands with Jay Stay Paid

Oh Sees

Orc

Oh Sees break through to psychedelic superstardom with new album Orc

THIS WEEKEND: Connect The Dots

Sheffield festival returns for year two, with Martyn Ware, Darkstar and Fatima Al Qadiri on the bill

“We Are Quite Savage Islanders” – Ben Wheatley Interviewed

Ben Wheatley chats to Stephen Dalton about the savagery of modern Britain, soundtrack choices and his blackly comic third feature Sightseers, which goes on nationwide theatrical release at the end of this month