Folk
Where ancient songs and sounds meet radical new ideas
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke
Patrick Clarke's seasonal exploration of forward-thinking folk music returns, featuring an interview with Eliza Carthy on the attentional ebb & flow the scene attracts, and the importance of hammering home an anti-fascist message, plus reviews of ten essential new releases – from magical Kazakh guitar to the Italians at the heart of Ireland's trad scene, via the Balkans, Lebanon, Argyll, Connemara and beyond
Folk
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke
In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases
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Anniversary
25 Years On: Happy Mondays’ Yes Please! Revisited
Yes Please! is the runt of the Happy Mondays’ litter, an album more likely to turn up on lists of career-ending releases and studio disasters than on playlists and radio. But as Yes Please! approaches its 25th anniversary, could this least redeemable of albums be due a critical re-think? Ben Cardew pushes for a place in history for this unique work of ageing, regret and disaster
Live Reviews
Field Day 2013: The Quietus Review
The Quietus once again trekked to Victoria Park for perhaps the best Field Day yet - glorious sun, a really pleasant, up-for-it crowd, and of course one of the best bills you'll find in 2013. Angus Finlayson, Rory Gibb, Maya Kalev, Glen McLeod, Laurie Tuffrey and Luke Turner report. All photos by Valerio Berdini aside from Chris Watson shot by Neil Thomson
Electronic
The Month’s Electronic Music: Taking Stock
In this month's edition of our electronic music column Hyperspecific, Christian Eede looks back at some of the best mixes the year so far has had to offer, while also reviewing new releases from LAPS (pictured), D. Tiffany and Klaus amongst others
