Cathy Wade

The Month’s Electronic Music: Rollin’ Down A Lonely Highway

In his latest electronic music column, Rory Gibb selects a handful of the month's most exciting releases to explore in-depth, from DJ Rashad's sublime deconstructions of language to Matmos' experiments in psychic projection

New Music Biennial Festival In Coventry This Week

Arts festival celebrates ten years with two-legged bash

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

Master Blaster: Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen

The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA

Summon The Clowns: Gentle Stranger Interviewed

Ahead of their Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker, Eden Tizard speaks to Gentle Stranger about audience responses, the dialogue between a musician and non-musician approach, and their own post-clown ethos. Pictures by Daniel Gatenio

An Intuitive Place: Yvette Interviewed

With the bludgeoning guitar noise of their debut album Process out this month, Suzie McCracken catches up with Brooklyn duo Yvette to discover how they've channeled present-day societal dread into music that pummels like a breezeblock

Wick Reeves’ Big Fight Out: John Wick Chapter 2 Reviewed

Ben Rabinovich watches things go BOOM in the sequel to the immensely entertaining John Wick

WATCH: An Exclusive Clip From Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Massive Attack Tease New Music Coming in 2026

The band have promised that the release of a "cache of work created in the recent past" is on the way next year

Brian Eno

FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE

Eno sings – and finally lays to rest any suggestions that the ambient godfather is 'not a musician', finds Jeremy Allen

Fire Fighting: Steve Albini Interviewed

When Neil Macdonald phoned Steve Albini for some quotes on the anniversary of Rapeman's Two Nuns And A Pack Mule, he got a lot more than he was expecting... The Big Black/Shellac frontman talks reformations, forest fires and poker tournaments

Sonic Router 013: Sonar Review

Our dubstep guru Oli Marlow sets sail for Spain in his pedalo, in order to bring us these sun dappled words from Sonar...

Breed is Good: What Crusader Kings 3 Taught me About Human Nature

The hours Eliza Clark lost manipulating intricate interactions between learned and inherited traits in Paradox's medieval grand strategy RPG are amply repaid in pope-seducing narratives, mad map-making and a new appreciation of why inbreeding is a bad thing

John M. Bennett

A Flattened Face Fogs Through

Sartorial dis-ease, veiled poetics, and Burroughsian tape manipulation abound on this collection from sound poet John M. Bennett

Gonjasufi

A Sufi And A Killer

Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough on Eric Bristow Darts Documentary, Arrows

As festive season darts mania once again takes over the UK with the annual PDC World Darts Championship, Travis Elborough travels back to 1979 and John Samson's documentary about the rise of Eric Bristow