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Betty Davis Has Died, Aged 77

The artist, whose openly sexual lyrics and performance style saw her banned from mainstream television, was an influential figure in New York's late '60s music scene

Not Bad For Girls: The Sad Necessity Of The Baileys Women’s Prize For Fiction

Sponsorship by a disgusting sweet and milky booze might make it superficially seem rather naff, even obvious and sexist, but the Baileys Women's Prize For Fiction is still unfortunately necessary, argues Stephanie Boland

LISTEN Joseph Curwen And Spool’s Out

Newcastle’s hauntological master of drones has crafted a Lovecraft-inspired hour long Halloween special for Spool’s Out Radio on Resonance FM.

Bruce Returns To Hessle

Bristol-based producer returns for second release on the label. Homepage photo courtesy of G.K. Stephens

Complete Communion: Stewart Smith Reviews March’s Jazz

Stewart Smith previews plenty of great shows and reviews albums by Matthew Shipp, Alexander Hawkins Trio, Death Shanties, Barry Guy, Polar Bear, Free Nelson ManDoomJazz, Roger Turner and Otomo Yoshihide

Kate Carr

Midsummer, London

South London sound artist travels across town, finding strange beauty in the everyday

Moby To Sell Drum Machines For Charity

Almost 200 drum machines from Moby's personal collection are to be sold to raise money for charity

How Primal Scream’s XTRMNTR Delivered An Enema To The 1990s

Lee Brackstone of White Rabbit books looks back 20 years to the first great rock & roll record of the 21st Century and Primal Scream's finest moment

Iceage

You're Nothing

Margate Festival It Came From The Sea This Weekend

Bruxa Maria, UKAEA and more will play in Margate this weekend for new festival

Melodic Chaos: Floating Points Interviewed

Following the release of his second album proper last month, Sam Shepherd discusses the support slots for The xx that provided the catalyst for the record, his longstanding connection with the Buchla synth and running out of records while supporting Andy C at The End

This Is My Music: Dean Wareham’s Favourite Albums

April Clare Welsh gets a rundown of the former Galaxie 500 frontman's all-time top 13 LPs before he comes to the UK to tour in support of his debut solo album next week

Roots & Branches: An Interview With Tree

With the second volume of his Sunday School mixtapes just released, Chicago rapper/producer Tree speaks with Kyle Ellison about the importance of a good voice and the city's current generation of hip-hop and rap artists

Daphni Shares New Track, ‘Sad Piano House’

It marks Dan Snaith's first release since last year's Honey LP under his Caribou alias

Alan Sparhawk

White Roses, My God

Low frontman tries to put the pieces back together

Pink Floyd’s ‘Wish You Were Here’ Set for 50th Anniversary Reissue

The updated release will be available in 3xLP, 2xCD and box set formats, with added bonus material