Nancy Bennie

Why Did The Activist Cross The Road: What Happens When Comedy Gets Serious

In this exclusive excerpt from their new book, A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice, Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman look at how the collaboration between civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and comedy website Funny or Die succeeded in changing the law about victims' rights

Oh Sees

Smote Reverser

They’re prolific, but this time they’re not terrific

Untold

Black Light Spiral

WATCH: Cuz – The Wheel And The Ring

Kaleidoscopically animated video for track from Mike Watt and Sam Dook of The Go! Team's project

Devendra Banhart Reveals New Album Details

Singer finishes work on _What Will It Be_

Helen Money

Become Zero

Karenn

sheworks004

Plume Girl

Unnameable Glory

On her second full-length album, Texas-based composer Sowmya Somanath let the music speak

Brötzmann / Nilssen-Love

Chicken Shit Bingo

A final, posthumous release from the late, great Peter Brötzmann, here on fine form with regular collaborator Paal Nilssen-Love hitting all the right spots

Family Fodder

Classical Music

Lift To Experience

The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads

Omar Rodríguez-López

Releases One Through Six

Sorry There’s No Punk! Captain Sensible’s Damn’ Favourite LPs

Forty years after The Damned released New Rose they're currently touring the UK. The genial Captain Sensible got in touch to tell us about his favourite LPs, from Stereolab to the Bee Gees, Soft Machine to Felt and Jimi Hendrix. Damned live photo by Dod Morrison.

Redemption Songs: Reverend Kristin Michael Hayter’s Baker’s Dozen

As she releases new album Saved!, Reverend Kristin Hayter ministers to Jared Dix on the power of song, sharing inspirations for her new record and the versatility of the human voice through thirteen favourite records

Time Is A Flat Circle: Ben Lerner Interviewed

Karl Smith sits down with poet and novelist Ben Lerner to discuss his latest work, 10:04, the fragility and fictionality of the Self, the poetic versus novelistic impetus and the impossibility of experiencing the future

LISTEN: Burial – Temple Sleeper

Well, a clip of it at any rate. Fine new single, heavy on the kicks, from producer, out now on Keysound