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On his eleventh (eleventh!) album, Ariel Pink pays tribute to the troubled figure of Bobby Jameson with a mix of '80s synthwave and '60s psych-folk...

As POP Montreal celebrates it’s 16th birthday (and the city itself turns 375), we select some of the festival's most unmissable acts...

The return of LCD Soundsystem has rekindled an intoxicating fire in the heart of Eamon Murtagh - and inspired his latest 'haiku review'...

Groombridge don't do things by halves - they do things by eight halves. Check out the epic four-part video for 'Der Specht' exclusively on The Monitors...

Nadine Shah's 'Holiday Destination' is one of the year's defining albums, articulating our present-day catastrophes bang on...

After a record-breaking bank holiday heatwave, The Necks manage to counteract a roasting Cafe Oto with a sublime performance, as part of their latest residency...

We catch up with Black Dice and Terrestrial Tones' Eric Copeland as he prepares to release 'Goofballs', his latest solo album on DFA Records...

Oh Sees agnostic Jake Smith had his head turned by recent single ‘Animated Violence’, but would the rest of the band’s 19th LP manage to fully convert him?

Our round-up of last month’s best music videos finds Feist in a fight with herself while Run The Jewels attempt to avoid capture...

From quasi-Brechtian encounters to skull-piercing rods, we take a look at the impressive A/VISIONS programme at this year’s MUTEK Montréal...