Universal Music Group (UMG) is increasingly omnivorous and, seemingly, rapacious. The latest course it has wolfed down is the 51 per cent of PIAS it did not already own (having bought 49 per cent in ...
It’s hard to shake off a feeling that one of the reasons broken beat hasn’t been given its critical due – certainly in comparison to other sides of the London soundsystem music continuum – is that ...
Two classically-trained musicians steeped in free improvisation somehow come up with the offbeat pop record you didn't know you needed ...
The Beirut-based artist takes the accordion out of the beer halls of Bavaria and into the wide-open spaces of ambient electronic music ...
From Sonic Boom-compiled mixtapes to a cruise with Father John Misty, Pulp’s Mark Webber takes Jonathan Wright through the ...
On the release of a new documentary on Dory Previn, Adelle Stripe explores an artist who learned to live with voices in her ...
When is a band not a band? It sounds like a question The Riddler would pose to a grown billionaire dressed as a bat. In ...
Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast, author S.H. Fernando Jr. takes us through some of the defining cuts from the seminal ...
Autechre have shared 12 live recordings from sets that they played across 2023 and 2024. The recordings are available to ...
Where to, musician? In his magisterial work, Music In The Balkans, Professor Jim Samson traces some of the region’s musical ...
Brian Eno has written a book with Dutch artist and theorist Bette A., called What Art Does: An Unfinished Theory. The book ...
With Bobby Gillespie virtually the sole surviving member, Primal Scream offer diminished returns, writes lapsed fan JR Moores ...