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Why The Jordan Peterson & Mumfords Brodown Comes As No Surprise

There was a minor conference of whoppers recently when alt-right figurehead Jordan Peterson popped into Mumford & Sons' studio for a photo op. Jazz Monroe explains why this proves that music journalists and cultural Marxists were right all along

Savage Guardians: Why Bands Are Right About Cameras At Gigs

Jeremy Allen normally gets annoyed at people leaving notes telling him what to do. But in the case of Savages and Yeah Yeah Yeahs instructing their audiences not to wave their cameraphones around like bellends, he can get behind the cause... even if it is doomed

UK Government Confirms Vaccine Passport Plan Will Go Ahead

Guidance will be issued to venue operators in due course, according to Boris Johnson's spokesperson

Sex Swing Unveil New LP, ‘Golden Triangle’

Their third studio album will be released by God Unknown Records this October

Running Away: Bronski Beat’s Smalltown Boy In Gay Cinema

Bronski Beat's 1984 floor-filler 'Smalltown Boy' has travelled through cinema as a marker as gay cultural subjectivities since 1986's Parting Glances. Jack King maps the song's onscreen history and its reckoning with the queer tension between love and death

Year Of The Projectile Reptile: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard’s Polygondwanaland & More

JR Moores looks back on the Australian psych lords’ annus mirabilis and proposes and few theories on how they proved so productive.

Broken Bells

After The Disco

Semibreve Festival Completes 2024 Lineup

Carmen Villain and Chris Watson are among the final additions to the bill for the Portuguese event

Anti Nostalgia: Zoe Howe’s ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’ Reviewed

With help from Zoe Howe's newly published history of the band - bunking the biographical trend, pleasingly filled more with anecdotes than footnotes - Hayley Scott unfurls the mystique of the Mary Chain from inception to present day

Redemption Songs: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter’s Baker’s Dozen

As she releases new album Saved!, Reverend Kristin Hayter ministers to Jared Dix on the power of song, sharing inspirations for her new record and the versatility of the human voice through thirteen favourite records

Circuit Des Yeux Releases New Song, ‘God Dick’

It comes ahead of a new album from the artist, due on Matador next year

DJ Stingray

F.T.N.W.O

billy woods Unveils New Album, ‘GOLLIWOG’

It features contributions from El-P, The Alchemist, Shabaka Hutchings and more

Ana Roxanne Returns with First Solo Album in Six Years

Poem 1 is led by new single 'Keepsake'

Bill Callahan

My Days of 58

The artist FKA Smog keeps on trucking, now sounding warmer than ever

Rắn Cạp Đuôi

Degradation

Inspired by Vietnam's monsoon season, Rắn Cạp Đuôi's Degradation has much to recommend it, finds Noel Gardner