David Chiu

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2020 (In Association With Norman Records)

These are our favourite albums of the last 12 months as voted for by Jennifer Lucy Allan, Bobby Barry, Aaron Bishop, Patrick Clarke, John Doran, Christian Eede, Noel Gardner, Fergal Kinney, Ella Kemp, Sean Kitching, Anthea Leyland, Peter Margasak, David McKenna, JR Moores, Luke Turner, Kez Whelan and Daryl Worthington. Illustration by Lisa Cradduck

All Of This Is Coming Your Way: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People

Twenty-five years after the release of REM’s Automatic For The People, Stewart Smith looks back on a masterpiece of nostalgia and loss that still retains its mysteries

Reissue of the Week: TV on the Radio’s Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

As it receives a 20th anniversary reissue, Zachary Lipez re-examines TV On The Radio's formative debut as the shape of indie yet to come

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC For April Reviewed By Noel Gardner

From the speed metal scene of Helsinki to the Mexican HC underground, Noel Gardner's bringing you all the punk and hardcore you'll need for another month. Fuck You Pay Me photo by Kevin McCann

Ain’t it the Truth: Robert Lloyd of Nightingales’ Favourite Music

In the wake of Nightingales' new record The Awful Truth, the band's leader Robert Lloyd takes John Quin for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater

Animal Collective

Campfire Songs

Greece’s Subset Festival Unveiled

International and local artists including Lyra Pramuk and Arca meet in June

Full Clip: October / November’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed

King Of The Beatdowns, Gary Suarez is back with what you've been looking for: hip hop long players reviewed in full

Adult.

This Behavior

They are electroclash veterans, yes, and so much much much more

What It Meant To Just Be: Basquiat’s Sisters Interviewed

A new exhibition in New York shows another side of Jean-Michel Basquiat. Amah-Rose Abrams talks to the artist's sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine Heriveax about a childhood spent listening in to basement jam sessions

Some Velvet Mourning: John Robb Remembers Rowland S Howard

The Birthday Party were one of the most explosive groups of the post-punk era. This is John Robb's eulogy to their suave guitarist Rowland S Howard

Underworld

Strawberry Hotel

British electronic music duo go Grand Hotel with fifteen tracks that take in everything from Monteverdi to Nina Nastasia

Lunch Money Life

Immersion Chamber

With the Comet is Coming's Danalogue on production duties, London jazzers Lunch Money Life produce their best studio work to date, finds Cal Cashin

No Repeats: Tunde Adebimpe’s Favourite Albums

In the wake of his debut solo album, the TV On The Radio vocalist looks back to his longstanding love of mixtapes for an eclectic Baker's Dozen – taking in 60s psychedelia, hip hop, krautrock, dub, IDM, and his eight-year-old daughter's love of Lightning Bolt

Foo Fighters

Greatest Hits

WATCH: Jan St. Werner New LP Medley

Quick trip through Mouse On Mars man's upcoming new Thrill Jockey LP