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Complete Communion: October’s Jazz With Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith is back with all the juice you need to keep your jazz inhaler vaping: reviews of new albums from Mats Gustafsson, Robert Glasper, Donny McCaslin and Forebrace, along with a round-up of UK and US releases you might have missed over the summer months

Club Catharsis: An Interview With Marie Davidson

Catching some downtime amidst a US tour, Marie Davidson tells us about her early love of jazz and hip hop, and her relationship with club culture

The Last Shadow Puppets

Everything You've Come To Expect

Oneohtrix Point Never Shares New Track, ‘A Barely Lit Path’

It's the first full song to be unveiled from forthcoming album 'Again'

Hex & The City: Eccentronic Research Council & Maxine Peake Live

Christophe Riesco watches the Eccentronic Research Council and Maxine Peake perform 1612 Underture and finds relaxation in short supply. If you want a flavour of the ERC, watch their short film below

Back In The New York Groove: Boss Hog Interviewed

Mark Andrews charts the re-emergence of the legendary Boss Hog and the genesis of Brood X, their first LP in 17 years

LISTEN: Another Of David Bowie’s Last Recordings

Another of David Bowie's final recordings emerges; listen below

Summer of (Interspecies) Love: Artist Hanna Tuulikki’s Bat Radar Rave

Hanna Tuulikki’s Echo in the Dark project uses the sounds of bat detectors to transport a room full of silent dancers back to the acid house era. Greg Thomas investigates

The Month in Electronic Music: Not Yet Further Than

Rory Gibb uses the start of 2012 as an opportunity to explore newly opening paths in UK-rooted dance music, care of an exceptional new 12" from Objekt

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan considers new releases from Argentinian musique concrete composer Beatriz Ferreyra, some snap & tickle from Dale Cornish, and a collection from lesser-spotted Japanese cassette label birdFriend

Doctor Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: A

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon'd for the common LISTENER

Reissue of the Week: Shirley Collins’ Sweet England

Jude Rogers finds much to love in a timely reissue of Shirley Collins' first album from 67 years ago... just weeks before her 90th birthday

Cameron Graham

Becoming a Beach Angel

On his debut album, the UK drummer and electronic artist offers a digital ode to joy, finds Skye Butchard

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For October

Your guide to the best in brand new punk and hardcore returns, with Noel Gardner picking out ten top-tier ragers from the likes of Lathe Of Heaven, Abism, Stigmatism, Mock Execution, Gender Is The Bastard and more. Homepage photo: Stress Positions, photo by Ricardo Adame,

What Does Dying Sound Like? Music And The Near Death Experience

When Haitao Yang was shot in the head, it brought him to within touching distance of death, an experience that has profoundly influenced his music ever since, but he's not alone. Jak Hutchcraft investigates the bizarre and sometimes disturbing world of music and the near death experience. With thanks to Daniel Hall

Never Mind The Mercury Prize, It’s The Quietus Jovian Bow Shock Award 2010

Yah boo! Mercury rubbish etc blah splurge until the internet pops. It matters not one jot in the mighty cogs of the Universe, but here's tQ's Alternative Mercury Prize 2010