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Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For October Reviewed By JR Moores

Our intrepid reporter, JR Moores, investigates the latest psych and noise-rock offerings, reviewing new releases from King Gizzard, Silver Apples and Makoto Kawabata, Carlton Melton and more

Jack White’s Blunderbuss: Track By Track

Last night, Jack White hosted a playback of his debut solo album in London. Julian Marszalek was there, and reports on an album clearly influenced by White's time in Nashville

Missing Pieces: Connie Converse & The Age Of The Great Lost Artist

Howard Fishman’s book about a long-forgotten early 50s singer-songwriter, *To Anyone Who Ever Asks: The Life, Music and Mystery of Connie Converse* is all the more beguiling for what it doesn’t tell us, finds Darren Hayman

Remembering Kevin Morpurgo

JR Moores speaks to friends and collaborators of Kevin Morpurgo, aka Philly Kev, who pay tribute to the much-loved musician following news of his death this week

A Bridge Too Far-Sighted? Exhibition Recalls Collaboration Of Thomas Leer & Robert Rental

In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing legacy

WATCH: Elza Soares Interview

The septuagenarian Brazilian singer discusses her new album of samba sujo, The woman at the end of the world, out on Friday

Remembering Betty Davis And Her Legacy

Betty Davis was a mover and a shaker in the Greenwich Village of the late-1960s, she was a great musician but was also politically, sexually and sonically progressive, an explosive mix that was too much for many people in her own day. Words by John Doran

Coventry & A Spirit Of Unbelonging: Terry Hall Remembered By Neil Kulkarni

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

What will aliens make of our planet's recent psych and noise-rock offerings, ponders JR Moores

Gigs In Space: An Interview With PVA

Ella Harris and Josh Baxter of South London alt-dance outfit PVA speak to Patrick Clarke about their hectic rise, pandemic-enforced break, and bold plans for the future

Low Culture Essay: Travis Elborough On Ian Nairn’s No Two The Same

In this month's Low Culture Essay, Travis Elborough revisits No Two The Same, a documentary about London's Pimlico that reveals many of the foibles of its creator, thirsty outsider and outspoken architecture critic Ian Nairn

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal Album Reviews For July

Mistress of metal Louise Brown - with some help from Angela Davey - reviews this month's major releases including LPs from Prong, Accept, Melvins and Dead Cross

Peer Reviewed: Kelly Moran Interviews Prurient… And Vice Versa

Contemporary composer and pianist Kelly Moran speaks to industrial techno maven, Dominick Fernow in an exclusive two-way interview that gets to grips with practice and inspiration, speaking from one artist directly to another

“We Came From Outside”: Thurston Moore & Mark Stewart In Conversation

As The Pop Group prepare to release their first album in over three decades, Bobby Barry brings together the band's Mark Stewart with mutual fan (and fellow cloud-botherer) Thurston Moore to discuss punk, properness and Primark. Photographs courtesy of Chiara Meattelli

Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Newly unearthed archival recordings of live dates from the 1960s, a profound homage to the swing-and-drag aesthetic of drummer Paul Motian from former collaborators, a new quintet from the veteran Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, and a thrumming quintet session from drummer Tom Skinner of The Smile are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music

Ergot You Under My Skin: Tai Shani’s The Neon Hieroglyph

A special edition 12" featuring the voice of Molly Moody and the music of Maxwell Sterling accompanies the latest project from Turner Prize-winning artist Tai Shani