Derek Robertson

WATCH: New Black Hearted Brother

First spin of the video for This Is How It Feels from forthcoming debut LP; band member Neil Halstead set for solo shows in London later this month

Arooj Aftab

Night Reign

Grammy-winning New Yorker settles into her first major label album with a record no less striking or adventurous than its predecessors, finds Jeremy Allen

Max Stadtfeld

Fancy Future

Wayward rhythms deftly intersect with languid major seventh chords on an album of electronically enhanced jazz from Leipzig

LoneLady

Hinterland

The Homesick

The Big Exercise

The first album on Subpop from Dutch underground pop group The Homesick is a rare joy, finds Richard Foster

David Bowie’s Final Project to be Displayed in London Exhibition

The notes for The Spectator, an "18th century musical", will go on show at the V&A East Storehouse

Kate Bush Shares Statement About Renewed Success Of ‘Running Up That Hill’

Her classic 1985 single has climbed into the Top 10 of the UK charts due to its recent use in the series 'Stranger Things'

They Never Stood A Chance: The Go-Betweens Spring Hill Fair 30 Yrs On

The Go-Betweens were destined to never become stars, but Alfred Soto finds much to praise as he revisits their 1984 LP Spring Hill Fair, a "dense, terse minor masterpiece of literate quasi-pop"

Powell: New EP Details

A new three tracker from one of London's most distinctive new musical voices set for release through Liberation Technologies - plus Diagonal label night this Friday

First Names For CTM 2017

Berlin festival unveils first details of its 2017 line-up

PLAYLIST: Plex/ Colony/BleeD Bangers

With another colossal Corsica Studios techno showdown on the cards for next Friday, 1st November, the promoters and artists playing at Plex/Colony/BleeD select a playlist of dancefloor bombs to start your weekend with a mighty OOOF

Mute To Release Third In Can Live Album Series, ‘Live In Cuxhaven 1976’

The series, which kicked off in January 2021, has been pieced together from a collection of bootlegged recordings of the band performing live

Rewire Your Brain: An Interview With Endless Boogie

New York's Endless Boogie couldn't be more aptly named, frying minds with sprawling, blues-tinted jams that seem to chug on forever. With career-best album Long Island just released, Stevie Chick speaks to the band's Paul Major about psychedelic experiences and intuition

Semi-Incongruous Morass: The Past, Present and Future of Smegma

Portland, Oregon's "folk music avant garde" institution Smegma, now in their fourth decade, has been spending more time reflecting on their past, but that doesn't mean there's no future ahead

ESSAY: ‘Shedding The False Self’ By Alya Al-Sultani

In her contribution to a new series of essays on non European cultural influences on experimental music, soprano and composer Alya Al-Sultani writes her Iraqi identity, and questions notions of permission and selfhood

Thirsty For Song: James Johnston Of Gallon Drunk’s Favourite LPs

As well as being the lynchpin of suited rock howlers Gallon Drunk, James Johnston has played with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey - but we're not going to hold the fact that he's picked both of them for his Baker's Dozen against him. Portrait by Steve Gullick.