To accompany today’s extract from *Alien Territory: An Experimental, Radical & Irrelevant Playlist from 1970s San Diego*, author Bill Perrine has curated a special playlist of off-beat and oft-neglected music from the book, featuring essential tracks by Pauline Oliveros, Diamanda Galas, Harry Partch, Kenneth Gaburo, Peter Gordon, and more
In Frank Ocean's long (long) awaited third album, Tara Joshi finds the artist asking questions about the positive and negative effects of the immediacy of our age and is left with her own about expectation and lasting change in the face of its subversion
In The xx's third full-length effort, Luke Turner finds an album seemingly more geared toward the televisions syncs that catapulted their once affecting minimalism to ubiquity – a record more about treading old ground with heavy boots than the light touch their debut promised
Vol. 11 & 12: Arrivederci Despair/ Tightwads & Nitwits & Critics & Heels
For the 11th and 12th instalment of The Desert Sessions, Josh Homme is joined by Billy Gibbons, Stella Mozgawa, Jake Shears, Mike Kerr, Carla Azar, Les Claypool, Matt Sweeney, Matt Berry, Libby Grace and mystery contributor Töôrnst Hülpft for some epic jams