I’m penning this introduction to our latest best of the month chart beneath the blazing heat of May Day. It’s a date that ...

An exploration of how a Masta Ace "compromise album" bridged East/West hip hop styles just as hip hop’s coastal divide ...

Long-time fan Sean Kitching celebrates the legacy of a true ‘Crocus Behemoth’ of the avant garde, post punk, underground rock ...

Gryphon Rue’s new LP creaks and grumbles and hums with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and ...

Pop! The First 20 HitsGreatest hits album, 1992 The best songs write themselves. For me, I would say ‘Oh L’amour’, ‘Sometimes ...

On their nineteenth album, the San Francisco quartet show no signs of letting up their brutal assault on pop music ...

Jennifer Lucy Allan finds some gems on a frustratingly patchy and difficult to navigate compilation of Japanese soundtrack ...

From mangled folk music to ever-evolving electroacoustic techno jams inspired by Hackney Marshes, Noel Gardner delivers his ...

As Hieroglyphic Being, Chicago’s Jamal Moss has long fused house, industrial and jazz into a mutant strain of proto-club ...

Lately, Tunde Adebimpe’s been thinking a lot about mixtapes. “They’re pretty much how I got into music, these mixtapes full ...

Northamptonshire electronic music legend Anthony Child taps deep into the essence of techno to find a core of swirling ...

Moving back to Ireland's Atlantic coast and signing to 4AD, Maria Somerville makes dreamy shoegazing pop with a little help ...