The eight-track record is only available on limited-edition vinyl for now

Four Tet has surprise released a new album under his Wingdings alias.

Limited to 2000 copies, it’s only available on vinyl for now. It features eight tracks according to Bleep, one of the sites that received stock of the record. Other stores such as Rough Trade, Juno and Red Eye also sold copies of the LP, but it now appears to be sold out everywhere online.

While the full tracklist hasn’t been confirmed and copies of the record are yet to be shipped, the artwork for the album matches that of a song that Four Tet put out under the Wingdings alias via Bandcamp last October. It would, therefore, appear that this…

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The organisation run out of the famed Berlin venue will offer educational programmes on running a club for a group of people hailing from around the world for the first time

The Tresor Academy of Subcultural Understanding, the training and education programme run out of famed Berlin club Tresor, is launching an educational programme for international applicants for the first time.

The organisation has been running masterclasses for future club operators on how to run a venue since 2024, and is now looking to broaden its scope to people from around the world. It will host a three-week course in Berlin across Tresor, and its associated Kraftwerk and OHM venues, while it will also offer online courses.

Applications are open until 29 June…

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The Berlin-based musician said the name changes reflects her “renewed sense of personal and artistic alignment”

The artist formerly known as Lyra Pramuk will now be known as Alif Hilal.

Writing on Instagram, the Berlin-based artist said her new name follows her conversion to Islam, and better reflects her “renewed sense of personal and artistic alignment”. The name Alif combines the first letter of the Arabic alphabet with Hilal, which is the crescent moon that signifies the beginning of the lunar month.

“When I was introduced to Islam, I was taught that everything is worship, and any true expression can be considered worship, the artist said on Instagram. “With this change, I plant a seed of lifelong commitment to my devotion as…

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The US artist’s fourth album is out in August

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L’Rain, the alias of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Taja Cheek, has announced a new album, titled fata morgana.

Spanning 13 tracks, the new album marks the culmination of a quadrology of records that began in 2017 with L’Rain, and later included 2021’s Fatigue and 2023’s I Killed Your Dog. The new LP spans ballads, all-out rock music and elements of dancehall, according to a press release. It also explores themes of resilience and resistance.

Watch a video for lead track ‘soulless cycle’ below.

Mexican Summer will release fata morgana on 14 August 2026.

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Located in Brussels, the first edition will take place this September

Nyege Nyege Festival is launching a European sister event in Brussels, called MIRROR WORLD.

The two-day festival’s programming, which will be announced at a later date, will span DJ sets, live performances, exhibitions and screenings. It will be split across three stages at Brussels venues Studio Citygate and La Fabriek.

The festival, a press release said, will not simply look to export the model of its flagship Ugandan event, but will rather follow the same principles of offering programming that is “community-rooted and radically accessible”, while also looking beyond standard headline bookings. More than 40 local and international artists will appear at the event.

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As a resurgent Converge gear up for their second album of 2026, the band’s frontman Jacob Bannon takes Dan Franklin through the 13 records that have defined his life and work

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Converge, the most important hardcore band of the 21st century, have unleashed their second album in six months. Hum Of Hurt follows Love Is Not Enough, released in February, a scalpel-sharp record marinated in its own darkness. 25 years since Converge’s near-unlistenably intense genre classic, Jane Doe, the band’s gaping-wound songwriting still feels shocking and new.

Hum Of Hurt bears all the hallmarks of a Converge album – what frontman Jacob Bannon describes as “aggression, dynamics, intensity”. Written at the same time as Love Is Not Enough, the…

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Joel McIver celebrates the 30th anniversary of an album so all-encompassing that it requires an entirely different kind of key to unlock it

Sing To God Vol I & II by Cardiacs

The idea of music that prompts strong unbidden cinematic images when you listen to it has never been explored, as far as I know. Accordingly, I’ve minted the word ‘cinemaesthesia’ – as opposed to cinesthesia – in order to write about the fourth Cardiacs album, Sing To God, released 30 years ago. I could have coined the alternative terms ‘sonocinema’ (but it sounds too much like a brandname) and ‘cinephantasia’ (too Disney), and indeed cinemaesthesia could be confused with ‘kinesthesia’ (your body’s means of tracking its position in space across…

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Vince Staples

Cry Baby

Nearly a decade and a half into his career, the Long Beach rapper delivers his most explicit political statement yet

Cry Baby by Vince Staples

Vince Staples’ catalogue has never wanted for visceral moments. In the opening of his 2013 mixtape with Mac Miller (the aptly name Stolen Youth), Staples describes a drive-by in his native Long Beach in his droll, matter-of-fact flow. It’s a familiar vignette, but Staples lingers on the moment longer than others would. 911 don’t respond, nobody does a thing, and his friend is left “on the streets till the sun came up”. It would be disingenuous to describe Staples’ new record as a political pivot. For attuned listeners, Staples’ music has always worked this way,…

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The former Daft Punk man played tracks by Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream and more in the 75-minute mix

Thomas Bangalter guested on New York-based The Lot Radio yesterday (8 June), and the recording of his DJ set has now been shared online.

Across 75 minutes, the former Daft Punk member played tracks by the likes of Aphex Twin, Tangerine Dream, Sonic Youth, John Carpenter, Flying Lotus, Iannis Xenakis, Burial, Boards Of Canada, Oklou, Nala Sinephro and Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman alias.

Bangalter also played some of his own work in the set, including a piece from his recent score for the ballet Mirage, and a new remix of material from his 2023 orchestral album Mythologies.

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It’s the band’s first for new label home Partisan

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Interpol are releasing a new album, titled This Mirror Weighs A Ton.

Spanning 12 tracks, it comes four years on from previous LP The Other Side Of Make-Believe, and is Interpol’s first for new label home Partisan. The band enlisted Andrew Wyatt, whose other credits include work for Charli xcx and Rosalía, to produce the record.

This Mirror Weighs A Ton expands Interpol’s sonic palette to include strings, woodwinds, acoustic guitar and experimental sound design, according to press materials. The record explores themes of reflection, perception and emotional tension.

Listen to the album’s title track and another cut, ‘See Out Loud’, below.

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