Horace Tapscott With The PanAfrikan Peoples Arkestra

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

Time Portals: Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Favourite Albums

After cheering up the nation with her lockdown kitchen discos, Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes Fergal Kinney through her 13 favourite albums, from Blur to Madonna, Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac and musicals

From The Darkest Chasms: Neil Young’s On The Beach Revisited

Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and greatest moments

The Favourite Albums Of Cornershop’s Tjinder Singh

Celebrate Cornershop's appearance in our mid-year compilations chart with Tjinder Singh's Baker's Dozen

Minimalist Requirements: Gareth Jones’ Favourite Music

Pioneering producer and engineer Gareth Jones takes Ned Raggett on a journey through his thirteen favourite albums, from the elegance of Can to the wit of Karlheinz Stockhausen via Robert Wyatt, Wendy Carlos and more

My Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music

The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg

Musical Delicacies: Sébastien Tellier’s 13 Favourite Albums

In this week’s Baker’s Dozen the French producer and songwriter tells Rob Hakimian about 13 albums from his youth and early adulthood that left a lasting impression on the way he makes, listens to, and visualises music.

Walk On In Darkness: Tom G Warrior’s 13 Favourite LPs

Tom G Warrior of Celtic Frost, Triptykon and Hellhammer speaks to Jimmy Martin about the elements that fed his nightmare kaleidoscope, from Quincy Jones to Venom, Roxy Music to the 'Sisters and 'Sabbath

Konx-Om-Pax & Heatsick In London

Warped dance and electronic music drives all-dayer at Stoke Newington's Waiting Room in December

New Weird Britain In Review For February By Noel Gardner

Your New Weird Britain roundup returns, bringing you sauntering goth-house, watery electronics and an album released via a flowerpot

Dinosaur Jr.

Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not

INTERVIEW: The Besnard Lakes

Julian Marszalek catches up with the Montreal space rockers following the recent release of their new album Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO - plus watch the brand new video for album track 'People Of The Sticks'

Impulse purchases: Oren Ambarchi Jazz (Fusion) Baker’s Dozen

The musician, label head and self-described record obsessive has eyes bigger than his stomach in his own Proustian boulangerie of jazz and fusion records. By Jennifer Lucy Allan.

Creation Rebel Unveil First Album In 40 Years

On-U Sound will release 'Hostile Environment' in October

Surreal Estate: London Stock At Safehouse Peckham

London Stock, an exhibition by Nick Barrett, unpicks the absurdities of London's housing market

What The Blue Story Ban Tells Us About Racism In Britain

Jeffrey Boakye argues that the banning of Blue Story by two cinema chains shows how in the UK black art is held to different standards to everything else, and "a reminder of just how poised society is to reject blackness on the assumption that it can be a corrupting force"