Roy Ayers

Obliviously Blissful: In The Wilderness By Gerald Cleaver, Brandon Lopez & Hprizm

An album of live improvised music, remixed and restructured by one of the founders of Antipop Consortium proves a hazy, smokey trip for Antonio Poscic

Sly & The Family Drone

Gentle Persuaders

After a tumultuous year, the mighty Sly & The Family Drone return with Gentle Persuaders, their first album since 2017's collaboration with Dead Neanderthals. Listen to an exclusive first stream and read Patrick Clarke's review below

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We Loved This September

As the days and your life get shorter, settle in with Yves Tumor, Pig Destroyer, Gazelle Twin and Alice Coltrane

PREVIEW: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

US filmmaker Brent Green chats to Kate Taylor about his remarkable, part-animated docudrama, ahead of its special Empire Drive-In screening at Abandon Normal Devices festival in Manchester

What Is New Weird Britain? A Guide To The UK Underground In 2018

As we get ready for this year's Supersonic Festival, Noel Gardner, John Doran and Luke Turner present their takes on what the underground we're calling New Weird Britain constitutes, from anti-corporate defiance, performance art, and a bold new exploration of landscape and place

Faintly Transcendental: On The Poetry Of Graham Foust

Scrutinising the influences, from time and place to Joy Division, and stylistic idiosyncrasies which together make up the work of this ambitious American poet, Alex Niven provides a guide for the Foust-uninitiated

Daniel Lopatin Talks ‘Uncut Gems’ Score In New Documentary

The artist also known as Oneohtrix Point Never has scored the Safdie Brothers’ new film, which is released in the UK tomorrow

Pink Floyd Announce New Album

The Endless River due for release in October

Wrangler

White Glue

A Greater Coming Together: Holly Herndon’s Proto

Often stories of new technology are laden with the anxiety of being replaced - being bettered by something that has a more calculable claim to existing, but with Proto, Holly Herndon explores the possibility of true collaboration with the mechanical

Sound Discrimination: April’s Rum Music By Russell Cuzner

Russell Cuzner tries to explain exactly what rum music is and reviews new releases by Lawrence English and Dream Weapon Ritual

Semibreve: Plaid, Mark Fell & More

New announcements for Portuguese festival, running in October

Queen’s Back Catalogue – The Authorised King James Version

Biblical scholar John Doran looks at the Authorised King James Version of the Good Book for clues to the genesis of Queen's back catalogue

It's No More Fun To Compute! Kraftwerk Live Review By Wolfgang Flür

In January the former robot went to the band's home town show in a power station in Dusseldorf and sent us this report, a longer version of a piece originally published in Germany earlier this year. Translation assistance by Melody Kometen

Rum Music For June Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Audience as rabble, song as ancient history and poetry as sound in this month's Rum Music

Amplification Point: Unsound Festival 2015 Reviewed By Rory Gibb

Surprise! This year's Unsound Festival in Krakow was a reminder of the importance of physical meeting spaces for a globalising electronic music community, writes Rory Gibb