The festival returns to several London venues this November

EFG London Jazz Festival has added a third wave of acts to the lineup for its 2026 edition.

Heading up the latest confirmations is a rare UK performance from Asha Puthli, which will take place at the Barbican. The Mumbai-born artist will be joined by “a specially curated cast of contemporary British artists” on the night, according to the festival.

Also joining the bill and playing at the Barbican during the festival are South African vocal group The Joy, who return after previously playing in 2024. Further additions include Roberto Fonseca & Vincent Segal at Cadogan Hall, and Charlotte Dos Santos at Union Chapel.

They all join the previously announced likes of Goldie, Yasuaki Shimizu,…

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It marks the UK artist’s first full-length for Ninja Tune since 2023

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Actress is releasing a new album, titled Radical Frame.

Spanning eight tracks, the new LP features collaborations with CASISDEAD (in the form of recent single ‘Live By You’) and Rainy Miller. It’s the UK artist’s first full-length release for Ninja Tune since 2023’s LXXXVIII, having put out a number of albums with Smalltown Supersound and the Werk Discs-released Suzanne Ciani collaboration Concrète Waves in recent years.

Radical Frame explores the Black avant-garde according to a press release, and its announcement comes alongside a video for new track ‘Overchord’, which you can watch below.

Ninja Tune will release Radical Frame on 18 September 2026.

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Eartheater’s latest album Heavenly Body is an ode to her baby daughter Nova. Here she shares 13 records with Finn Cliff Hodges that she is excited for Nova to hear, and some that she herself connected with as a child, via talking purple foods with Björk to saying prayers to Miles Davis, and why Alice Coltrane is good for digestion

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As a relatively new mother, Alexandra Drewchin, aka Eartheater, is realistic but determined: “I feel like a lot of moms have warned me that culture and the art world hate mothers.” This is an ongoing tussle with the status quo for the New York artist, as her latest album Heavenly Body: If I’m The Bottle You’re The Message…

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To celebrate the 30th birthday of Melvins’ bonkers eighth album, JR Moores presents a users’ manual to what the hell was going on


A is for Atlantic Records

1996’s Stag remains one of the weirdest rock albums ever to appear on a major label. It was Melvins’ eighth album in total, and the final of three to be released by Atlantic Records. This genre-straddling wonk-rock experiment is even up there with the weirdest records in the whole Melvins canon. Stag’s strangeness does occur in an eclectic and playful way, however, rather than in the more confrontational, or else deflated, manner you might expect from an act that would shortly sever ties – or have its ties severed – from the world of…

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RenzNiro

No Weapon Shall Prosper

Manchester rapper has his eyes on the prize, but it’s the moments of tension and inner conflict that make this record so compelling

No Weapon Shall Prosper by RenzNiro

Mostly produced by RenzNiro himself with long time collaborator Wudini, No Weapon Shall Prosper has the multiple producer credits and guest features you might expect from a mixtape but, considering the number of hands that have been on it, it’s remarkable how it holds to a central vision. The productions are subtle, built of floating electronic tones and threaded with surprising details. Often the rhythmic drive comes from the clip of his vocal flow. The bass goes boom, snares and hi hats click and tick, but they feel pulled away…

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Using a bandsaw blade, a whip, a ‘body cello’, acrylic fingernails with inbuilt styluses and more, Evicshen is one of the most gripping performers on earth. Ahead of a set at MUTEK Montreal, she speaks to Richard Foster about the importance of chaos and the anarchy of the body

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Victoria Shen, aka Evicshen, stares back from a small, darkened room. The gloomy setting played out on my screen is one that is at odds with her lively personality, but time spent in a darkened room in London is a relief after “being paralysed” in heatwave-stricken Berlin. Soon she will jet off again on what sounds like a never-ending tour, with appearances at MUTEK Montreal amongst others.

Evicshen’s practice…

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From LA’s greatest exports of regressive rock via umlaut-abusing Londoners, a smattering of strutting French crunchers and a decades-spanning Deutschpunk compilation, your buyer’s guide to the best new punk music returns

Der KFc, as featured on Angriff Auf’s Schlaraffenland. Photo by Wolfgang Wiggers

There’s a time and a place for regressive rock, and in this house it’s whenever the day has a Y and the clock has a spring. I love to get hifalutin and turtlenecked with my listening whenever the mood takes, but every human diet needs roughage, and rough boys can often be relied on to feed you by the spoonful.We are talking Hot Load of Los Angeles, on the occasion of their second studio album Realized (Drunken Sailor), and…

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Xiu Xiu

Eraserhead Xiu Xiu

San Jose duo take on the surreal industrial atmosphere of David Lynch’s early masterpiece

Eraserhead Xiu Xiu by Xiu Xiu

“Believe it or not, Eraserhead is my most spiritual film.”

“Elaborate on that.”

“No.”

Almost twenty years ago, while being interviewed for the British Academy for Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), beloved surrealist filmmaker, musician, painter and actor David Lynch chuckled when asked to expand on the meaning of a statement made about his 1977 debut feature film, Eraserhead. Watching Lynch’s work, from his aforementioned feature debut through to Inland Empire, which celebrates its twentieth anniversary this year, down to his final screen work with Twin Peaks: The Return, something Lynch considered more as an 18-hour-long feature rather than standard television series,…

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DJ Shadow

The Mo’ Wax Singles 1993-1997

A lavish box set doesn’t just re-endtroduce us to Shadow’s early work, it restates the long-neglected case for hip-hop as art, Angus Batey argues

We live in an era where what happens next – culturally, socially, politically – seems to be in an unprecedented state of flux, and where being a music fan who prefers to collect physical objects rather than renting temporary access to music from a faceless corporation increasingly feels like you’re auditioning for a role as a contemporary Canute. So at first glance this looks like an odd moment for DJ Shadow and PIAS Catalogue to team up on a lavish, by-no-means-modestly priced vinyl box set compiling the iconoclastic and idiosyncratic hip hop…

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Michael Cloud Duguay

Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go

Canadian composer makes a tour of the church organs of Newfoundland and finds a surprising index of the changing of the climate

Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go by Michael Cloud Duguay

As Michael Cloud Duguay points out, church organs are the only instruments that form part of a building. Organs only play in the place where they were constructed, and people come to them if they want to listen. Duguay is a composer and producer from Ontario, and he describes Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go as “almost” a documentary about organs. Using recordings made during a nine-day road trip around the remote fringes of Newfoundland, the album is built around the sounds of organs in seven different churches –…

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