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Noel Gardner’s Straight Hedge XI: Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

Celebrate! Noel Gardner is back with more punk and hardcore reviews and discusses the punk rock/ drinking scrumpy/ washing machine on a 30 degree spin cycle interface

Sadness Is A Dagger Or A Portal Or A Fog: Claire Cronin’s Blue Lights Of The Screen

Claire Cronin's meditation on a life lived through mediation proves a tour de force of critical theory for Enrico Monacelli

Captain Flatcap & Electro Swing: Electrodes To Mr Agreeable’s Balls

We live in desperate times, beset on all sides by Captain Flatcaps, Kings Of Leons and James Cordens dressing up as Bowie dry humping after a Tinder Spotify swipe. Mr Agreeable - he ain't happy

Little Earthquakes By Tori Amos, 20 Years On

Two decades since the release of Tori Amos' Little Earthquakes, Maxine Frances Roper looks back over an album that remains inimitable

Supersonic Festival Reveals First Acts for 2025 Edition

Richard Dawson, Backxwash and Moin are among the acts playing the Birmingham event this summer

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LIVE REPORT: London Jazz Festival

This year's London Jazz Festival, writes Andy Thomas, was at its best when mining the sounds of the past to zoom into the future, courtesy of stunning live shows from Black Top, Wadada Leo Smith and more

GALLERY: Iceland Airwaves Festival

Photographic highlights of Jon Hopkins, Omar Souleyman and more at this year's event. Photographs courtesy of Erik Luyten

Armand Hammer Reveal New Album with The Alchemist, ‘Mercy’

It features Earl Sweatshirt, Pink Siifu, Quelle Chris and more

Manics Announce Special Cardiff Show

Manic Street Preachers will play their album 'This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours' in full at Cardiff Castle show in summer 2019

The Story Of Akim & Teddy Vann’s ‘Santa Claus Is A Black Man’

Forty years since the release of Akim & the Teddy Vann Production Company's 'Santa Claus Is A Black Man', Marc Burrows speaks to Akim about her father's work to empower and provide positive imagery for young black people in the US

Gerard Love To Leave Teenage Fanclub

Teenage Fanclub's Gerard Love will leave the band due to creative differences

A Music of Shadows: Sheida Gharachedaghi Soundtrack to The Chess of the Wind

Cursed at the time of its released, Mohammad Reza Aslani's film The Chess of the Wind is now recognised as one of great Iranian films of the 1970s. Its soundtrack may be even better

A Cosmic Love Affair: Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia

Third eye pilot Julian Marszelek opens wide to absorb the wonders of the second Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia

Savages & Bo Ningen Announce Live Collab

Groups to perform 'sonic simultaneous poem' in Shoreditch tomorrow night

Jam City Previews New Album With Unhappy

First details of long-awaited second album announced by Night Slugs