Roberta Flack

Toronto Noise: An Interview With Dilly Dally

Half of Dilly Dally, founders Katie Monks and Liz Ball, meet up with John Freeman in their hometown of Toronto to tell him about their excellent debut album, Sore, and the city's burgeoning industrial punk-pop scene

The xx: New Album Announced

Coexist for release on September 10th. Photo by Jamie-James Medina.

Scene And Not Heard: Jesse Rifkin’s Playlist For NYC’s Lost Music Spaces

The new book by Jesse Rifkin, *This Must Be the Place* tracks the rise and fall of music scenes and the places that gave them succour. In his author playlist, he picks out 11 key tracks that exemplify those scenes, from the Greenwich Village folk revival to early 00s Brooklyn noise-rock, via loft jazz, punk rock, hip hop and more

Ian MacKaye At New Glasgow Festival

Fugazi frontman to answer questions as part of film screening

Straight Outta Salford: The Non-Poetry Of Shaun Ryder

A new book collects the lyrics of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape, reconextualising Shaun Ryder’s gritty urban realism – just don’t call it poetry

And If You Need An Explanation: Manic Street Preachers interviewed

In 1996, Manic Street Preachers released Everything Must Go, the million-selling album that restarted their career after the trauma of losing Richey Edwards. Simon Price meets James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on the record's 20th anniversary to get the rationale behind the nostalgia, their memories of recording it, and the ultimate track-by-track guide to the album itself

Soccer96

As Above So Below

Dam And Blast: Night Moves Reviewed

Gary Green goes enviro-mental over director Kelly Reichardt's latest

Gaz Coombes

Matador

The Third Man: William S. Burroughs At One Hundred

On the day that would mark the inimitable writer's centennial birthday, Darran Anderson considers the lifetime's work of a true genius and a true bullshit artist, and how - on issues as pressingly contemporary-seeming as censorship, surveillance and the War on Drugs - his work is as relevant now as it's ever been

WATCH: Stewart Lee & Alex Neilson Interview

In a new video conversation, Stewart Lee talks to Trembling Bells' Alex Neilson about the band's new album

Mangum Force: ATP & A Return To The Spirit Of Elephant 6

Stewart Smith praises Jeff Mangum's All Tomorrow's Parties for a return to the spirit of the Elephant 6 collective that surrounded his old group, Neutral Milk Hotel. Photographs thanks to Andy Ennis of Shot2bits.net

K.O! Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson On Cinematic Fight Scenes

Ahead of tomorrow's article on the best cinematic fight scenes, Eugene Robinson takes time out to consider what elements go toward making a truly memorable cinematic punch up.

Gluttonous Maximus: Lone Taxidermist Get Wet & Messy In Manchester

Natalie Sharp, aka Lone Taxidermist, is bringing a hellish & surreal vision of cake sitting, giant cream squirting vaginas and luxurious pop to Manchester this weekend...

Jack White To Open Vinyl Plant

Vinyl pressing plant will be based in Detroit for use of his Third Man label and local acts

Extracted Essence: Marissa Nadler’s 13 Favourite Albums

Marissa Nadler guides Patrick Clarke through thirteen records that define her as an artist, from Dirty Three and Broadcast to Dylan and Young