Pete Paphides

LISTEN: Bruxa Maria / Casual Nun Record

Bruxa Maria and Casual Nun join forces for a split release

What Sleaford Mods Tell Us About The End Of Capitalism & A 60s Dream

As Sleaford Mods return to the UK at the end of a triumphant European tour, Hazel Sheffield argues the band are the product of the death of capitalism as much as their songs invoke its demise

Sandunes

11:11

Mumbai-based producer Sandunes surrounds and elevates the listener on latest EP, 11:11, finds Esme Bennett

See PJ Harvey Perform Poetry & New Music

Performing as part of this year's London Literature Festival at the Southbank Centre, PJ Harvey will read poetry from a new book with Let England Shake collaborator Seamus Murphy, and — no big deal – sing a few new songs, too

LISTEN: Daniel Avery Remixes The Asphodells

Wrap your ears around the London producer's reworking of the Weatherall/Fairplay collaboration

Frenz Experiments – Black Country, New Road Interviewed

After the Quietus ran a lengthy interview with BC,NR lyricist Isaac Wood last winter, now Richard Foster talks at length to Lewis Evans, Tyler Hyde, Georgia Ellery and Luke Mark about what really makes the band tick

Supersonic Announces First Names For 2020

Rocket Recordings will present a label showcase at this year's edition of the Birmingham festival

Why It’s Time To End The Myth Of Suffering & Creativity

Catherine Anne Davies reflects on writing a new record in the wake of a string of personal tragedies and health problems, and asks isn't it time we get past the dangerous trope of the tortured artist?

They Don’t Know: Jude Rogers On Kirsty MacColl

When asked to write the sleeve notes for a new box set covering the two decade-long career of Kirsty MacColl, Jude Rogers realised that most people tended to associate the singer with two things, yet the story told by See The Girl, is one of artistic richness and talent in the face of an industry that barely cared

Beer & Thank You: Bill Callahan Interviewed

The singer-songwriter talks to Chad Parkhill about the influence of dub music on his new album Dream River, the relationship between repose and death and how he now feels about his past life as Smog

Richard Thompson

Still

Sunn O))) Plan Reissue

2008's DØMKIRKE will be available on double-vinyl from next month

Hopeful Monsters: Cavalcade By Black Midi

Temporarily reduced to a three-piece, London's Black Midi are back with an audacious leap of a record

Otoboke Beaver

Super Champon

Chaos reigns on the new Otoboke Beaver record, finds Jared Dix

LISTEN: New Lawrence English

Producer lines up album on his own Room40 label; listen to a new track below

FESTIVAL REPORT: Reverence Festival

Jimmy Martin heads to Valada, Portugal to witness sets from the likes of Psychic TV, Electric Wizard, and Hawkwind, as well finding time to sit down with festival organiser Nick Allport. Photos by Jorge Pereira