Giancarlo DiTrapano

Pure Motion: Girls Can’t Surf And Other Wave Stories

New documentary Girls Don't Surf offers an upbeat take on young women overturning the pay gap, but there's more to learn about the pain, beauty and solitude of surfing on screen, finds Soma Ghosh

Data Driven: Spotify’s Former Data Alchemist Explores How Streaming is Changing Music

From algorithmic recommender systems to on-demand access, Spotify’s former Data Alchemist Glenn McDonald breaks down how streaming influences music discovery and listening behaviour

Supersonic Adds Matana Roberts to 2024 Lineup and Reveals Day Splits

The Birmingham festival returns this August

Light In The Attic Reveals Anthology of Lou Reed’s Work for Pickwick Records

The compilation collects pop songs written by Reed during his mid-60s stint as a staff songwriter for the record label

Reissue of the Week: Coil’s Black Antlers

Luke Turner revisits Coil's penultimate album, currently being re-released by Dais, and finds it a potent listen haunted by the premature death of John Balance.

Hopes For Paradise: Terrence Davies and The Long Day Closes

The moving image was a much scarcer commodity in the 1950s than now – never better captured than in Terrence Davies' miraculous The Long Day Closes, finds Rich Woodall

Rian Treanor Collaborates with Cara Tolmie on New Album for Planet Mu

Body Lapse will be released in September

Dream Skills and Burn Into Sleep

I Carried You For Years And The Deers Are Still Hungry

A collaboration between siblings produces a completely beguiling body of work that’s simultaneously scary and sexy, finds Zara Hedderman

Ghost Of Our Fathers: Beyond The Miners’ Strike – Beth Steel Interviewed

Jessie Thompson speaks to playwright Beth Steel about moving beyond the collapse of the welfare state, representations of masculinity and moving beyond the usual themes of the Miners' Strike in her latest work, Wonderland, showing now at Hampstead Theatre. Pictures by Manuel Harlan

Keiji Haino & SUMAC Detail New LP, ‘Into This Juvenile Apocalypse…’

It's the first full-length meeting between the two acts since 2019's 'Even For Just The Briefest Moment Keep Charging This "Expiation" / Plug In To Make It Slightly Better'

Circuit Des Yeux Releases New Song, ‘God Dick’

It comes ahead of a new album from the artist, due on Matador next year

Further Reductions

Woodwork

New Writing: Poetry By Emily Carney

New writing is back in the finest of transatlantic form this week, providing you with a single poem by Connecticut's own Emily Carney

Jim Legxacy Signs to XL Recordings, Shares New Single

'aggressive' is the lead track from a forthcoming mixtape called 'black british music (2025)'

DOWNLOAD: Club Clique Remix Cat Power

Manchester club rework both track and video of Manhattan from Power's 2012 album