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The Strange World Of… Michael Chapman

Some of those who knew the singer-songwriter and guitarist best, including his widow Andru Chapman and collaborator Thurston Moore, help guide Jonathan Wright through Michael Chapman’s extraordinary catalogue

Chilly Gonzales

Ivory Tower

The Mars Volta

Octahedron

Katie Kim

Hour of the Ox

The Irish musician, singer-songwriter and composer takes time to reveal her temper on this warped and woozy record, finds Amanda Farah

Part Four: Why Pram Wrote The Best Album Of The Nineties

In the penultimate chapter of A New Nineties, Neil Kulkarni makes a good case for The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are as best album of the 90s

It’s A Music Lover’s Thing: An Interview With Rabih Beaini

Ahead of his performance at Outernational Days next week, Lebanese electronic musician and Morphine label head Rabih Beaini talks to Rory Gibb about the challenges and emerging possibilities of collaboration across countries and cultures

Warm Announce Autumn Nights Ft Ben UFO, Dixon & Ame

London club promoters announce excellent autumn series of nights, based largely at Plastic People

Led Bib

The People In Your Neighbourhood/The Good Egg

Western Pop In The Eastern Bloc: Depeche Mode – Monument

Sophia Deboick explores this aptly-named publication, a time capsule of sorts, by turns a personal history and listographic account of the unlikely importance of Basildon's own Depeche Mode to the youth culture of the Eastern Bloc

“A Long Tradition Of Pessimists”: Roll The Dice Play Ball

Wyndham Wallace talks to Stockholm's Roll The Dice about the influences at play on their second album, In Dust

More Names For Supersonic 2018

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe, Shirley Collins and more join the bill for this year's Supersonic

His Sinister Shadow: An Interview With Hallock Hill

Ash Akhtar speaks to Tom Lecky, the man behind Hallock Hill, about the shifts in working process that have informed the shadowy, more claustrophobic sound of his latest album There He Unforeseen

Beyond the Darkness: An Interview With Wolves in the Throne Room

In advance of their UK tour and appearance at Supersonic Festival, Brad Sanders chats to Wolves In The Throne Room in depth about their glorious new album Celestial Lineage and black metal aesthetics

WIN: St. John’s Sessions Series Passes

Get hold of a pair of passes to attend William Basinski, Fennesz, Actress, Tim Hecker and Pete Swanson at Hackney church over the coming months

Patrick Kelleher

You Look Cold

LISTEN: Pauline Oliveros Mixtape

Composers puts together collection of her music ahead of DEEP∞MINIMALISM appearance