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Listen Here: Why Festivals are Better if you Ignore Half the Music & do Something else Instead

In the latest instalment of the new Listen Here column, Luke Turner suggests that festivals are best experienced when not wearily trudging around ticking off band after band.

Eiko Ishibashi

Evil Does Not Exist

The score for Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s award-winning 2023 film is as subtly bewitching as the movie itself

WIN: ArcTanGent Festival Tickets

Dragged Into Sunlight have given us a pair of tickets for one lucky reader for the Somerset festival taking place later this month

Memories & Forgettings: Charlie Hill’s Unconventional Memoir

In his book *I Don't Want To Go To The Taj Mahal*, Charlie Hill recalls a late twentieth-century Birmingham upbringing through fragments

It’s A Dirty Job: Workin’ Man Noise Unit Interviewed

With their debut album Play Loud due imminently, Matt Ridout talks to the Reading four-piece about embedding hooks within the noise, Julian Cope and potato grading, and we premiere their video for Yeah, I Was Hypnotised

INTERVIEW: Qow and Theo Alexander Talk PAF Olomouc Show

Cairo's Qow and London's Theo Alexander talk to Patrick Clarke about their collaborative show at this year's PAF Olomouc, promising "fluidity, doors, broken saxophones, post-sacred-but-not-secular organwork" and more

Goldfrapp Announce New Album

Electronic pair set to release Tales Of Us in September, with a European tour to follow

Scientology Fiction? The Master Reviewed

Our Boston, MA correspondent Craig Terlino ponders the basis of modern US cinema great Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth feature, which opens as a 70mm presentation at the Odeon West End in London this Friday, before going on regular nationwide theatrical release from November 16

LIVE REPORT: Sufjan Stevens

Laurie Tuffrey watches the multi-instrumentalist deliver an ascendant performance of songs from this year's Carrie & Lowell on the first night of his Southbank Centre residency. All photographs courtesy of Dan Dennison

American Nightmare: Misfits’ Legacy of Brutality at 40

Legacy Of Brutality conveys much of what is magnificent about the band, and much of what is exasperating about Glenn Danzig, says Andrew Holter, as he assesses the compilation – and Danzig’s complicated legacy – 40 years on

The Fall and Mark E Smith As A Narrative Lyric Writer

Serafina Steer

The Moths Are Real

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part I – A High Speed Ballet

John Doran is spending a week in Cairo to report on the city's new Electro Chaabi scene. He's keeping a blog while there, and this is the first part

Taking It Outside: Rockfort Interviews Chloé Raunet & Delphine Dora

Our man in Paris talks to C.A.R. (aka former Battant member Chloé Raunet) about trauma and inspiration, and to Delphine Dora about fetishising madness. Plus: this month’s recommended French releases

By The Green Light: Ethnofuturism And Djinns In Mati Diop’s Atlantics

Mati Diop's beguiling debut feature tells a love story, but also hides oceans of complex historico-political allegories amidst mystical bodies and ambiguous timelines, finds Perwana Nazif

James Holden & Wacław Zimpel Share Recording of MUTEK 2025 Set

Listen to the stunning set from this year's Montreal festival, and read below for the duo's reflections from the performance