John Freeman thinks Prince went off the boil after Diamonds & Pearls. At least we all agree on how good Dirty Mind is ...

Wild Dreams. Cool Ambition. Hard Cash. While these words may sound like something you’d associate with a high-octane blockbuster action flick, in reality they are the tagline to a 1995 documentary ...

Southend-on-Sea is defined by the surreal. Take the pier. Well over a mile long, it was built to stretch beyond the vast tidal mudflats of the Thames estuary to greet steamboats and their passengers ...

The Cairo trio of Maurice Louca, Sam Shalabi and Alan Bishop leave the maps behind, heading off into an uncharted sonic territory between post-improvisation, contemporary folk and electronica ...

Beverly Glenn-Copeland is releasing a new album, Laughter In Summer. The nine-track LP was written and recorded together with the artist’s partner, Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, and marks his first ...

No Music For Genocide, the boycott campaign that is encouraging musicians and record labels to geo-block their back catalogues from streaming platforms in Israel, now has more than 1000 backers.

Richard Ashcroft is as much the Scott Walker of Britpop as David Baddiel is the Spike Milligan of comedy is the new rock ‘n’ roll. You’d think someone who is a million different people from one day to ...

There are artists who treat solo albums as side notes, and there are those who seize the chance to excavate new terrain. With Taproots, Robin Richards, principal composer of Manchester’s idiosyncratic ...

Tresor is reissuing Fusion Flats, a 2000 EP by Drexciya, on vinyl. The updated release marks the first time the record has been made physically available since its original pressing, while it will ...

Portuguese festival Mucho Flow has shared the full lineup for its upcoming 2025 edition. Taking place across three days in Guimarães, the festival will newly host sets from HiTech, Lauren Duffus, Simo ...

The brothers Dewaele offer ten points of entry into their massive back catalogue of heavy rock, punk funk, rave & remixes ...

Spooky season is upon us, and The Plan have made an album filled with songs suitable to soundtrack a B-horror film. Returning almost a decade after the Rebecca Gillieron-led project’s warmly received ...