Alex Weston-Noond

LISTEN: Coil – Backwards

Cold Spring release this October

Mogwai

The Hawk Is Howling

LISTEN: Beyonce’s Bow Down Here

Unexpected new direction for Bey?

Sorry There’s No Punk! Captain Sensible’s Damn’ Favourite LPs

Forty years after The Damned released New Rose they're currently touring the UK. The genial Captain Sensible got in touch to tell us about his favourite LPs, from Stereolab to the Bee Gees, Soft Machine to Felt and Jimi Hendrix. Damned live photo by Dod Morrison.

Bethia Beadman

Made Of Love

Driving Force: Adam Franklin’s Baker’s Dozen

From childhood seven inch singles and cash-in LPs to the joy of Sandinista! on shuffle, Swervedriver and Bolts Of Melody frontman Adam Franklin takes Ned Raggett through the thirteen records that shaped him

A State Of Exile: Scott Walker’s Climate Of Hunter Revisited

Thirty years after its release, Eugene Brennan looks at Scott Walker's curious album Climate Of Hunter, and argues that it's not the break with the past that many have claimed

Manic Street Preachers To Release New LP

Lucky 13th for Welsh arena rockers backed by biggest UK tour in a decade

Laura Cannell

The Sky Untuned

With latest album The Sky Untuned, Laura Cannell continues to deliver outstandingly fresh and essential recordings, finds Tom Bolton

Corrupting Sonic DNA: Moby’s Favourite Albums

Moby talks Luke Turner through his formative musical influences, from Nick Drake and OMD to the sound of New York via Suicide, Silver Apples, Eric B & Rakim and Public Enemy

Out Of The Drawing Room: Atoms For Peace Live

Last week, Atoms For Peace took their Drawing Room shop and installation to the Enterprise in Camden, and brought album AMOK alive in the Camden Roundhouse. Dan Richards reports. Live photographs by Valerio Berdini, Drawing Room by Dan Richards.

Stephen O’Malley To Release Live Album

'Auflösung der Zeit' will be released by Editions Mego

John Grant

Pale Green Ghosts

LISTEN: Gazelle Twin’s Label Compilation

Elizabeth Bernholz' label releases charity compilation; listen to it below

Constant Companions: Matt Johnson’s Favourite Albums

From a teenage encounter with Pere Ubu in a Wardour Street club, to the comforting effect of classic reggae and his love of Marc Bolan, The The’s Matt Johnson takes Jeremy Allen through his thirteen favourite records

Folly Good Show: Abbas Akhavan at Chisenhale Gallery

The East London exhibition drags visitors out of their digital stupor, writes Amah-Rose Abrams