Nathan Evans

Festival 23 Debuts This Year

Inaugural edition of festival celebrating Discordian counter-culture to be held in July with Knifeworld and more

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

Oneohtrix Point Never To Sell Synths

Oneohtrix Point Never will next week sell a large part of his gear collection through marketplace Reverb

An Ocean of Atoms: Lord Spikeheart’s Baker’s Dozen

The experimental metal master guides Alex Rigotti through his thirteen favourite albums that explore heaviness, spirituality and love, and that shaped both him and his debut solo album The Adept

GALLERY: Bowie To Foals Captured

La Vie Est Bellia: photographer Richard Bellia announces crowd-funding plans for a book drawing on a vast catalogue of images of musicians

First Contact: Meet The Residents 45 Years On

Sean Kitching looks back 45 years to The Residents' debut and finds a record just as beguiling now as it was on release and asks, what makes it so weird?

LISTEN: Tim Hecker Remixes Holy Other

Title track from Mancunian producer's LP gets a reworking by Hecker

Ennio Morricone RIP: 13 Artists And Writers On Their Favourite Morricone Compositions

As news breaks that the prolific and acclaimed composer Ennio Morricone has sadly died at the age of 91, we compile a Baker's Dozen of artists and writers on their favourite work by Il Maestro, from Jane Weaver and Blanck Mass to Årabrot and Rachel Zeffira

Finely Cut: Johnny Jewel Of Chromatics & Glass Candy Interviewed

Chromatics' Kill For Love is one of the classiest and most romantic albums of 2012. Lucy Jones speaks to the prolific Johnny Jewel of Chromatics and Glass Candy about his work ethic, religious upbringing and love

JR Moores On Gnoomes’ TSCHAK!

In the pharmacologically sober follow-up to Ngan!, JR Moores finds that being forbidden from ingesting mind-altering substances hasn't neutered Gnoomes' ability to create joyful and inspiring Russian psych,

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Escape To The Country: Willy Vlautin Of Richmond Fontaine’s Favourite LPs

Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism

LISTEN: Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman Collab

Reckonings LP launch takes place this Friday at Cafe Oto

Something A Bit More Modern: Adrian Mole At Forty

Four decades after the publication of the first Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Sydeysider and lifelong fan Barnaby Smith recalls his bewilderment at giros, joss sticks and spotted dick

Take Four: EFG London Jazz Festival Preview

Stewart Smith picks highlights from this year's programme at the EFG London Jazz Festival, from supergroup [Ahmed] to new work by saxophonist Xhosa Cole (pictured below), unique collaborations and a night celebrating jazz on British telly.

Patterns In The Sand: Emma Anderson’s Favourite Albums

On the release of her debut solo album, former Lush member Emma Anderson takes Jude Rogers through her favourite albums, from a teenage years soundtracked by Simple Minds and The Durutti Column to her affinity with later 4AD labelmates