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Golden Cabinet Announce Objekt Gig

With Bill Kouligas and Negra Branca on the bill

Janet Jackson

Unbreakable

For Those About To Smooth Jazz: Sade’s Stronger Than Pride Revisted

Chad Parkill revisits one of his earliest musical memories: listening to Sade on a hippy commune in the Australian bush in a piece looking at Stronger Than Pride 30 years after its release

If You Only Knew: ‘Little’ Jimmy Scott Interviewed

Nicholas Abrahams talks to "Little" Jimmy Scott about his music, his muse and singing for David Lynch

Easy To Sing, Easy To Say: Bob Stanley On Pop’s Birth Pangs

In a revelatory volume on pre-modern pop, the music historian balances education with entertainment, finds Irina Shtreis

Heroin Lullaby: A Poem By Bobby Parker

Sidestepping the format on this rare occasion, this week's new writing comes by way of a visceral and emotionally fraught single poem from Quietus-favourite Bobby Parker

Of Music & Men: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts Interviewed

As Wild Beasts release brilliant new album Smother, Luke Turner sits down to Hayden Thorpe to explore the darker side of masculinity

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Daryl Worthington

From drip powered cave orchestras to raw sax improvisations and stunning electronics, Daryl Worthington finds hope and strangeness on cassettes in May

LISTEN: New Blancmange

Blancmange preview upcoming album Wanderlust with new single

The xx

Coexist

Take Shelter: Ben Sharrock On Limbo And The UK’s Violent Legacy

With his sophomore feature Limbo, writer-director Ben Sharrock recentres the epidemic of indifference sweeping Europe regarding asylum seekers. Anahit Behrooz interviews the filmmaker to find out more

Screwing It Up: The Hundred In The Hands Interviewed

Valerie Siebert talks to New York duo The Hundred In The Hands about their recently released self-titled debut album

Demolishing the Outmoded Society: Michel Faber on Situationism and the French Rock Underground

Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse. It offers a “vivid” account with an “impressive” number of interviews, finds Michel Faber

Yoko Oh Yes! Ms Ono Speaks About Peace, Pop And Computer Games

Some of us may be surprised at just how good _Between My Head And The Sky_, the new album by the Plastic Ono Band, actually is. Not Carol Clerk, who met up with Yoko to talk about her music and peace projects . . .

Memories Of Genius: 45 Years On Prince’s Dirty Mind Revisited

John Freeman was not a fan of post-Witness rebirth Prince. Here he recalls happier days with Dirty Mind. The feature was first published in 2010

Three Chords Good: Graham Parker’s Favourite Albums

As Graham Parker & The Rumour prepare to play their final ever shows later this month, the prolific singer-songwriter talks Ben Graham through the 13 albums that have had the biggest impact on him as a musician