Alex Borkowski

The Quest For The Grail: Rat Scabies Favourite Albums

The former Damned drummer tells Ben Graham about seeing bands at the Orchid Ballroom in Purley, the appeal of repetition and variety in music, and how The Damned nearly got their own Monkees-style TV show

Reissue Of The Week: Electribe 101’s Electribal Memories

A timely reissue of a UK house classic LP helps challenge rockist (and IDMist) notions of lasting worth in dance music, says Joe Muggs

All You’re Waiting For: Nancy Whang’s Favourite Albums

With the first of her new singles series out on Gomma and an album from The Juan MacLean due this summer, the former LCD Soundsystem member and DJ talks Thomas Hasson through her all-time top records

Platonic Ideals: Michael Pedersen On Boy Friends & Missing Scott Hutchison

Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends is a book about male friendships – especially the author's friendship with Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit. He talks to Becca Inglis about art, language and opening up

Kali Malone Forced To Cancel French Church Performance Due To Far-Right Protests

Protestors affiliated with Catholic fundamentalist group Civitas described the show as "profanatory"

Mangum Force: ATP & A Return To The Spirit Of Elephant 6

Stewart Smith praises Jeff Mangum's All Tomorrow's Parties for a return to the spirit of the Elephant 6 collective that surrounded his old group, Neutral Milk Hotel. Photographs thanks to Andy Ennis of Shot2bits.net

Kanye West

The Life Of Pablo

Carried By The Light: Robby Müller In Polaroids

At the International Film Festival Rotterdam, an exhibition of polaroid photographs by Robby Müller reveals the Dutch cinematographer's fascination with light and movement

Glasgow’s Counterflows Unveils 2022 Lineup

Still House Plants and aya are among the artists playing at the festival's first in-person edition since 2019

Jessica Pavone

Clamor

Writing for a septet of strings and winds, Jessica Pavone plays with time in a moving tribute to technologies invented by women

Absorbing The Light Of The African American Avant-Garde: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s Baker’s Dozen

In an epic Baker’s Dozen, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe lets Stewart Smith into the secrets of his Candyman soundtrack, and celebrates Black excellence from Don Cherry to Moor Mother, Olly W. Wilson to Pamela Z

Carmen Villain

Sketch for Winter IX: Perlita

Carmen Villain's excellent Perlita feels effortless, natural, and inevitable, says Bernie Brooks

RIP Mark E. Smith

Mark E. Smith has died aged 60

A Conversation With Ceri Levy & Ralph Steadman

In the first of a two part series celebrating the publication of Extinct Boids, film-maker Ceri Levy and artist Ralph Steadman lead Kiran Acharya on a wayward interview with detours into art, conservation and memories of Hunter S Thompson

‘White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day’ Reviewed

Critic Steve Jelbert digs deep into the latest page in the VU's ongoing mythology

Bard On A Wire: Sleaford Mods’ Spare Ribs Reviewed

From Conservatism to consumerism, there's plenty in contemporary Britain to attract the lyrical ire of Jason Wiliamson. But, argues JR Moores, there's a lot more to Sleaford Mods than needlsharp commentary on the everyday present