Joe Bucciero

In Search Of A Higher Plane: Le Guess Who? Festival 2016

With performances from The Ex — as well as their spotlighting of Ethiopian music in Fendika and Zerfu Demissie — and Brazil's Elza Soares, at he tenth anniversary year of Utrecht's Le Guess Who?, Noel Gardner finds a festival that has shifted its weight and broadened its vision in search of more. (Photographs by Tim van Veen, Jan Rijk and Jelmer de Haas)

“I Don’t Like Cool Stuff”: The Bakers Dozen Of Billy Childish

Easter Monday is Billy Holiday! Wild Billy Childish of the Medway Towns tells Phil Hebblethwaite about his 13 favourite records; or tells him about 13 records at least...

The Beatles Rock Band & The Rise Of Computer Game Music

From The Pleasuredome to Beatles Rock Band - video games and music celebrate their silver wedding atop a mountain made of cash, says John Tatlock.

Seeing In Fragments: The Misshapes & Monuments Of Robert Mangold

Pace London surveys forty years of work by the American minimalist painter, Robert Mangold

WATCH: Kylie Minogue – Into The Blue

Video for single from forthcoming album Kiss Me Once

Arca Collaborates With Oliver Coates On New Track, ‘Madre’

It's part of a new EP out now on XL

Joyous Things & Dark Clouds: Outlands & Art Funding In 2020

A completely free event in Milton Keynes featuring the wonderful Body Vice celebrates the best of weird/ DIY/ underground culture in Britain, says Rob Hakimian, but does it signal darker times ahead?

Funk Soul Brother: Alexis Taylor Of Hot Chip’s Favourite Albums

With his second solo album Await Barbarians released last month and a run of summer festival sets upcoming, the Hot Chip and About Group man gives Dom Smith his favourite album rundown

Black Sky Thinking: The Joy Division Industry

More offcuts from the factory, by Chris Roberts. Illustration by Stu Green

Music Waits For You: LoneLady’s Favourite Albums

From singing along with Neneh Cherry on her way to school to a lockdown obsession with Durutti Column, Julie Campbell, aka LoneLady, takes Elizabeth Aubrey through the thirteen definitive records of her life

Lightning Strikes Twice: Nicholas Lezard On PiL’s Metal Box

Critic Nicholas Lezard looks back 40 years to the post punk versus punk stand off between Public Image Ltd and The Clash, and finds, in John Lydon at least, an example of lightning striking twice in the same place

Kernow Calling: Mark Jenkin’s Favourite Albums

Cornish bard Mark Jenkin talks Sean McGeady through the soundtracks to his teenage summers, long drives to the hospital, and lonely afternoons hand-processing celluloid, from Junior Wells to Joni Mitchell

Non-Linear: DJ Shadow’s The Private Press At 20

Angus Batey samples, cuts and pastes from archive interviews as he argues that, two decades on, DJ Shadow's second solo album deserves to be acclaimed as a masterpiece

The Damned

Damned Damned Damned/Music For Pleasure/Strawberries (Reissues)

Shine On: Peter Frampton’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of his Roundhouse show tomorrow night, the singer-songwriter, former Humble Pie man and guitarist extraordinaire gives us a rundown of his top LPs

Critic’s Round-Up: Mark Kermode’s Favourite Albums

The film critic, television presenter and skiffle bassist sets aside his DVD stack to talk top records with Marc Burrows