Michael Berdan

Absorbing The Light Of The African American Avant-Garde: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe’s Baker’s Dozen

In an epic Baker’s Dozen, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe lets Stewart Smith into the secrets of his Candyman soundtrack, and celebrates Black excellence from Don Cherry to Moor Mother, Olly W. Wilson to Pamela Z

Alice Coltrane

The Carnegie Hall Concert

A live set from 1971, finds Coltrane – plus a band featuring Archie Shepp, Pharoah Sanders, Tulsi Sen Gupta and others – on inspired form, finds Antonio Poscic

Art Into Pop: How TJ Clark And Art & Language Influenced Gang Of Four

In an exclusive extract from his new Repeater book, Red Set: A History of Gang of Four, Jim Dooley details the art school background of Leeds' finest post-punks

Organic Intelligence V: Latvian Cosmic Pop

In the first subscriber-only newsletter of 2022, Daryl Worthington delves deep into the murky world of the experimental Latvian underground of the 80s to bring you a selection of bangers

Fat White Family At Brixton Academy

Band to play biggest headline UK show to date this September; announce new single

Back To The Future: The Body’s I’ve Seen All I Need To See

The Body's latest LP, I've Seen All I Need To See, is a monstrously heavy, crushingly bleak monument to humankind's ruin, says Bernie Brooks

Mary Sue and the Clementi Sound Appreciation Club

Porcelain Shield, Paper Sword

Singaporean iconoclasts prove that hip-hop is (the) world('s) music

Arctic Monkeys Humbug Track-By-Track Album Review

Ben Hewitt pops The Arctic Monkeys' _Humbug_ into his gob and gives it a suck...

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats

The Night Creeper

Winter

What Kind Of Blue Are You?

There's more to Winter's latest than early 90s nostalgia, finds Aug Stone

Iron Fist Is A Leaden Five Knuckle Shuffle, By John Tatlock

After some spectacular highs, the Netflix's Marvel Universe shows have painted themselves into a dull narrative corner, says John Tatlock. ****Contains spoilers****

The Month’s Electronic Music: Pirate Radio Techno

In this month's electronic music column, Rory Gibb casts an ear over a slew of new UK club music releases, plus new records by Laurel Halo and Kyle Hall

Lara Rix-Martin on The Heavy Existentialism of Soviet Sci-fi

Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction

Dream Baby Dream – An Extract From The Suicide Biography

Here is an exclusive extract from Kris Needs' new, authorised biography of NYC duo Suicide, with focus on Marty Rev as a young jazz fan hanging with Tony Williams and bewildered by Dizzy Gillespie's rubber chicken. Followed by author Q & A

The Life & Times Of M. Serge Gainsbourg

From 'Je T'Aime... Moi Non Plus' to a fear of breasts, Jeremy Allen sits down with Gitane and citron pressé to look at the music and thirsty life of Serge Gainsbourg.

The Strange World Of… Gay Disco

Following the publication of his new book 1984: The Year Pop Went Queer, Ian Wade offers up a guide to ten key tracks from the era's gay dancefloors, from Eartha Kitt to Evelyn Thomas