Electronic

Daring Is Important: Gudrun Gut’s Favourite Albums

Leading light of the Berlin underground Gudrun Gut guides Jeremy Allen through 13 favourite records - she wanted them all to be Neu! but as there weren't enough, there's the Bad Seeds, Throbbing Gristle, Lana Del Rey and much more. Gudrun Gut portrait by Mv Kummer

Eerie Sound Waves: Editing the Music of The Shining

In an exclusive edited extract from their new book Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, J.W. Rinzler and Lee Unkrich go deep on the process of finding the right music for the classic 1980 film of Stephen King’s bestselling book

A Disappearing Art: Exploring the Magic Postmodernism of MacGillivray

Ahead of a show at this year’s Sensoria Festival in Sheffield Kirsten Norrie, aka MacGillivray, talks to John Doran about her elemental multi-disciplinary practice drawing together folklore, poetry, music and film making. Main portrait by Zanne Chaudhry

Taking a Left Turn: Leftism Turns 30

Commonly viewed through the lens of progressive house, Julian Marszalek looks at Leftfield's towering 1995 debut through the prism of dub reggae

The Noise In-Between: An Interview With Ivan Seal

Declan Tan talks memory, meaning, and material with Berlin-based artist and Caretaker collaborator, Ivan Seal

Low Culture 14: Wu-Tang Clan, William Blake, The Fall & The Hidden City

Trudging through the inverted worlds of Staten Island, Putney and Prestwich come a crew of rappers, a poet/ engraver and a dyspetic singer, says Tom Ellen. They steel themselves against the disappointment of the surface world - the feeling of 'Is this it?' - by doodling on the maps of their cities, adding monsters and demons, gods and angels, hidden passageways and secret portals.

Melody Without A Form: An Interview with Arthur Russell & Peter Gordon

In an exclusive extract from her new book *Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990*, writer and radio host Brooke Wentz shares an interview from the WKCR-FM archives with pioneering Downtown musicians Arthur Russell and Peter Gordon talking ballet, rap music and ‘democratic music’

Depeche Mode

Sounds Of The Universe

In Which Mr Agreeable Casts Rheumy Eyes Over The Mercury Prize

Could it be Mr Agreeable's piles that have given him an existential sense of discomfort and rage this week or is it yet another arse-crimpingly boring list of Mercury Music Prize nominees?

Turning Points: Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ 13 Favourite Albums

From Beethoven to The Beach Boys via King Kong: The Musical, these are the 13 pieces of music that shaped Yusuf/Cat Stevens as an artist

Lawrence English

A Mirror Holds the Sky

An album of deftly designed field recordings from the Amazon proves an awe-inspiring experience for Antonio Poscic

Mark Jenkin

Enys Men (Original Score)

Director Mark Jenkin offers up a sinister take on the haunted sound of post-millennial electronica for his new film, Enys Men

Hyperspecific: Dance Music For October Reviewed By Jaša Bužinel

In this month’s dance music column, Jaša Bužinel calls your attention to the 10th anniversary of Rustie's prophetic album 'Glass Swords', and reviews new music by Buttechno, Eris Drew, Warhorse, Salamanda and more

A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age

As Lord Mandelson's anti-piracy Digital Economy Bill begins its uncertain journey through parliament, John Tatlock investigates the music industry's most troubled decade yet and says 'stop whining, it's only a scratch'.

Sloy, 69, Françoise Hardy & French Music BDP (Before Daft Punk)

In this month's Rockfort, David McKenna ponders the imminent arrival of Daft Punk's new LP, and what that means for French music. He also takes a look at 69, featuring former members of Albini-produced Sly... and some Françoise Hardy

Anthrax’s Charlie Benante Talks About The Birth Of The Blast Beat

Our mountain climbing metal marauder Mark Eglinton tracks down and grills Anthrax's drummer on inventing the blast beat, and the band's high turnover of singers