Proto-punk icon Patti Smith is having a special celebration in the early hours of tonight/tomorrow morning. The New York singer-songwriter, poet, activist and all-round legend is marking “Patti Smith and Lenny Kaye: 50 Years of […]
Always read the label: Ruptured Records (Beirut)
Embracing disruption with Ziad Nawfal, the DJ and radio host soundtracking the Lebanese underground since the 1990s
All the right noises: January 2021
Soundtrack to filing that month away…
Manslaughter 777’s rumbling dub explorations
When you put two drummers together from the extreme metal and drone composition ends of the spectrum, the dub music they come up with won’t be the chilled-out cosmic kind. Manslaughter 777 is a new […]
Skin in the game: IKOQWE – pele
Angolan hip-hop duo IKOQWE “urge you to to learn how to love… skin is to be felt”.
Always Read the Label: Rua Sound/Foxy Jangle
Rua Sound co-founder Rob Flynn on the label’s explorations in jungle, drum & bass, grime, footwork and hip-hop
Let’s get grindcore done: Midrift Guillotine – Dig Up Thatcher and Burn Her Bones EP
If you really fuckin hate the Tories, a self-satisfied Owen Jones column just won’t cut it. Have this eight-track petrol bomb of seditionist splatter grindcore instead.
Hybrasil still keeping it very techno on new album ten
It’s tough releasing a techno album right now, when there’s a distinct lack of sweaty basements and jacked-up sound rigs to test it out live — but Irish producer Will Kinsella aka Hybrasil hasn’t held […]
Another ‘new normal’ – Eurosonic festival starts on your laptop tonight
In any other January, most of us are hibernating for good reason — after a few weeks of indulgence and wallet trashing. We don’t have a choice this year, though, we’re all hibernating together, trying […]
Feel the Burn: GHLOW – Hold On
A dirgy industrial racket that feels more like a sweaty headbutt than a dancefloor bop — but that’s all good
Avon Terror Corps make some noise for charity
Sonic nihilism — all for a good cause.
The clue’s in the title: Nd:YAG – Glitch & Clamour
More warped electronics on Dutch label New York Haunted
Italo disco Russian remodel: OID & Chikiss – Only Music Survives
One of the low-key highlights of Tallinn Music Week 2019 was ducking into the Balti Jaam food market for some noodles and being drawn to the left-field analogue synth-pop wafting down from the third floor. […]
Vital organs on Jute Gyte – Diapason
Ah fuck, surely it’s too early in the year for a two-and-a-half hour, one-track Jute Gyte album?
Always read the label – Deathbomb Arc
Deathbomb Arc founder Brian Miller on the California label’s experimental sounds: “Genres unknown since 1998.”
Moo Kid 