Keeping track of new music, media and industry news.

In the first episode of a new feature focusing on musicians' relationships with London, Elliott Power takes us to Ballardian Brentford, home to crackheads & Olympians alike...

A conversation about sound, culture, language, politics and 'the other' with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, aka the magnificent Jerusalem In My Heart...

An in-depth chat about globalisation and 'The Glow' with the brilliant Norwegian band Gold Celeste, creators of one of last year's finest albums...

The BBC Sound Of poll has come under attack recently, so Nicholas Burman watched Radio 1's Future Festival to see if there's any actual quality amidst the A&R arse-kissing...

Forget minimalism, here's 'minimal(ish)'. Nicholas Burman shows how Howes, Lance Neptune and Alex Smoke are proving John Peel's point that "life has surface noise"...

A cadre of Monitors scribes select their favourite tracks of 2015, accompanied by an extensive Spotify playlist collating the year's finest music...

Our best albums of 2015 list rolls in with all the unfestive inevitability of an EastEnders Christmas special - but much less depressing, obviously...

London's finest purveyors of 'Eagle Metal' tell us about riffs, the stupidity of man, and the forthcoming collaboration between HAG and Phil Collins...

With colloquialism back on the agenda, we thought it would be worth chatting to the duo who helped put community lingo into the pop culture lexicon: Chas & Dave...

As they prepare to being their sparky, mercurial avant-funk to the UK, we speak to Jean-Sebastien Truchy of Montreal's Avec le Soleil Sortant de sa Bouche...