Steven Soderbergh

WATCH: New Björk Video

The video for Björk's new single was premiered over the weekend at London’s The Store Studios

Why We Need To Stop Seeing Grassroots Venues As Mere Rungs On A Ladder

With music venues in crisis, does celebrating them as places where bands appeared on the way to fame overshadow their true purpose as the places in which music is played for the sake of communal joy, asks Luke Turner

WATCH: New British Sea Power Vid

Band unveil bonkers new video for new single; watch below

Neil Young

Le Noise

Summon The Clowns: Gentle Stranger Interviewed

Ahead of their Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker, Eden Tizard speaks to Gentle Stranger about audience responses, the dialogue between a musician and non-musician approach, and their own post-clown ethos. Pictures by Daniel Gatenio

The Pre New Set For Idle Fret Birthday Party

Neils Children, Joseph Coward, Saint Etienne DJ set and more for record label bash

No Longer Outsiders? On South Asian Representation In UK Culture

With the debate over #OscarsSoWhite coming to a head, it seems apt to remember that "diversity" isn’t about tokenism for its own sake. Through her experiences as a British South Asian, Tara Joshi considers the importance of representing non-stereotyped ethnic minorities in media, and why UK broadcasting needs to cop on

Various Artists

C86 (Reissue)

Do Ya Wanna Funk? Paul Flynn On Hi-NRG

In our monthly subscriber-only essay, writer Paul Flynn describes being handed a flyer for an unusual literary event which acts as a madeleine, casting him back to the 1980s, and a sexual and sonic awakening. Detail from the UK AIDS Memorial Quilt photographed by the author

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

Alphabet Saints

Raptureland

Pallbearer

Foundations Of Burden

LIVE REPORT: Skaņu Mežs Festival

At this year's Skaņu Mežs festival in Latvia, Tristan Bath finds not just a festival brimming with local talent and highlight-worthy performances from the always excellent King Midas Sound + Fennesz and Klara Lewis, but also — in Killing Sound — a reminder from our friends in Europe of the best part of our own culture

Do You Want New Rave? The Soft Pink Truth Hits The Dancefloor

Taken together, the new album and sister EP from Drew Daniel are a joyful hobbyist exploration of dancefloor memories, says Skye Butchard

Yugen Blakrok

Anima Mysterium

The second album from the SA rapper, and her first since her Black Panther OST appearance last year, is ferocious, uncompromising and mystical

LISTEN: Bleaching Agent’s Babolat EP

Further adventures in techno from the Blacknecks man