sofi, one of the figures on the 2024/25 SHAPE+ rosters of artists, has a new album on the way, titled AZE. Set for release ...

It’s getting dark outside, the tonsured creature above is looking at me funny – time to get out these monthly playlists ...

Violent Femmes self-titled debut album remains a core text of the teenage angst curriculum. It is a perfect document of that very particular feeling of experiencing love, lust and loss for the first ...

The Beirut-based artist takes the accordion out of the beer halls of Bavaria and into the wide-open spaces of ambient ...

Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and ...

From Sonic Boom-compiled mixtapes to a cruise with Father John Misty, Pulp’s Mark Webber takes Jonathan Wright through the ...

Le Guess Who? has issued a lengthy complaint about the increasing problem it’s facing securing visas for the various international artists performing at the Utrecht festival. In a post shared across ...

Two classically-trained musicians steeped in free improvisation somehow come up with the offbeat pop record you didn't know you needed ...

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 ...

Unraveling Rap’s Masked Iconoclast, author S.H. Fernando Jr. takes us through some of the defining cuts from the seminal ...

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 ...

On the release of a new documentary on Dory Previn, Adelle Stripe explores an artist who learned to live with voices in her ...