Prince Charles & The City Beat Band

Low Culture 16: Law & Order And Television As Prophecy

Andrew Walker celebrates a TV show which is often easily dismissed as a poor cousin of The Wire or NYPD Blue because in it he sees an unusual amount of prescience...

Stir My Teenage Soul: Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor’s Favourite LPs

Karl O'Connor guides Luke Turner through the 13 teenage hits that made him Regis, with tales of smelling like a badger on the mail train to Brum and what happens when you get a member of Einstürzende Neubauten the wrong gravel on the way

Regis And Female’s ’90s Housewerk Records Reissued

The Downwards sub-label's first two releases are newly available to buy again

Anika Releases New Charity Single, ‘No Fly Zone’

Profits from the release will go to a charitable organisation fighting human rights abuses in Iran

A Life Turning Pages: Robert Forster’s Favourite Books

The Go-Betweens founder takes Aug Stone through his 'eclectic even to himself' reading tastes

Quietus Competition: Win Blonde Redhead Tickets

One pair of tickets up for grabs

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My Chemical Romance Deny Split Rumours

Band say speculation is "misleading"

Blown Horizonz: The Birth & Death Of Auto-Tune

In an extract from his new book, Blown Horizonz, David Z Morris connects the dots between economics, Auto-Tune and the Enlightenment

LISTEN: New Rachel Zeffira Tracks

Rachel Zeffira of Cat's Eye shares three tracks from her forthcoming soundtrack for the film Elizabeth Harvest

Life Of A Discaholic: Mats Gustafsson’s Favourite Albums

The prolific free jazz saxophonist, The Thing and Fire! member and crate digger extraordinaire takes up our top 13 albums gauntlet

Hyperspecific: April And May’s Electronic Music

April and May's round-up of the best electronic music looks at the slew of exceptional drum & bass emerging of late from labels like Samurai Music and UVB-76 Music, while also reviewing new releases from Roza Terenzi, Gábor Lázár, Steevio, Beta Librae, object blue and more

Psychedelic Thread: Gaz Coombes’ Favourite Albums

With an upcoming UK tour and an appearance at Field Day coming in the wake of his second album Matador, the former Supergrass man gives Julian Marszalek a tour of his top 13 LPs

Not A Lorre Laughs: Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Reviewed

Tristan Bath reviews a restoration of Fritz Lang's proto-noir masterpiece

As Simple As Fun: Beth Ditto’s Baker’s Dozen

As she releases new solo album Fake Sugar, Beth Ditto swears & enthuses about 13 favourite records to Louise Brown, taking in the filth of Lil' Kim to David Bowie and the queer punk of Buzzcocks via Missy Elliott and Lauryn Hill