Dan Wale

A Tribute To Shane MacGowan, By Tariq Goddard

Tariq Goddard pens a personal tribute to the late Shane MacGowan of The Pogues, whose writing understood something precious about life, and whose voice was the ultimate instrument of light and darkness

Ghoul Britannia: A New Wave of Home Grown Horror

Josh Saco discusses the new wave of British Horror as the latest gem, _The Disappeared_, is screened at the ICA tonight with a director Q&A

Dumb Not Dumb: The Strange World Of Matt Loveridge &c.

Matt Loveridge's talent spills out of him and pours across many different projects. Matt Evans tries to find ten entry points into the back catalogue of this musical savant

Exclusive: Free Mulatu Astatke Downloads

Free music new and old from Ethiopia

There’s A Song Playing: Brett Anderson’s Favourite 13 Albums

From The Fall to Kate Bush, Bjork to Eno and Bowie to Midlake, Brett Anderson guides Luke Turner through his favourite 13 albums

Charles Cohen

Brother I Prove You Wrong

Light In The Attic Unveils Lou Reed Tribute Album

'The Power Of The Heart: A Tribute To Lou Reed' will feature covers of the late artist's work by close friends and artists who are fans of his music

Soap&Skin

From Gas To Solid / You Are My Friend

Another extraordinary set of songs from Anja Plaschg

No Regrets – 25 Years Of Butthole Surfers’ Locust Abortion Technician

For 25 years David Stubbs has been having bad dreams and attempting to put endings on them like he comes out a winner but thanks to the Butthole Surfers' finest album, Locust Abortion Technician, he's been getting nowhere

New Openings: Anime, Fandom And Japanese Music At Crunchyroll

This year's Crunchyroll Expo in San Jose introduced audiences to their new and old favourite Japanese bands to bridge the gap of anime fandom, finds Kambole Campbell

Rattle

Sequence

Midlands any-instrument-so-long-as-it’s-drums band release their euphoric second album

The Sound And Vision Of Young Scotland: What Presence! Exhibition

Neil Cooper takes a trip to Glasgow's Street Level Gallery to look at photography of post punk Scotland

Reissue Of The Week: Arthur Russell’s Picture Of Bunny Rabbit

Since his passing in 1992, the cult of Russell has almost become a micro industry, and perhaps due to the volume of releases the promise of more may be met with weary indifference, a belief that the essentials must already be among us. Picture Of Bunny Rabbit proves such concerns to be foolhardy says Eden Tizard

Amanda Palmer Kickstarter Bonanza

Dresden Doll, pianist and songwriter raises over $350,000 in first few days of Kickstarter campaign

A Deliberate Rejection Of Beauty? Disco Inferno’s D.I. Go Pop

Ned Raggett looks back twenty years to an album of "urban sound with seaside and seasonal reveries that aren’t quite that, a burst of activity that could also be a last gasp"

Adam & Joe’s Adam Buxton On His Favourite Music Videos

Adam Buxton talks to The Quietus about his music video project BUG and selects some of his favourite music videos from Hot Chip, Major Lazer, Ladyscraper, Peter, Bjorn and John, Chemical Brothers, Blur and Radiohead.