Jill Scott

To Whom This May Concern

A decade on from her last album, the influential neo-soul pioneer returns with an album of deft storytelling, rich jazz instrumentation and a cast of collaborators including Tierra Whack, Trombone Shorty and Maha Adachi Earth

There’s real power in the act of stepping back and taking a breather. In our fast-paced, mile-a-minute everyday, we’re not often afforded such an opportunity but having time and space can be transformative, especially in a creative context. For actress and singer Jill Scott, who makes her long-awaited return with her first album since 2015’s Woman, her new project is a product of having had that room to step back, live life and reflect on the world at large. The end…

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The eight-track record will be released via PAN

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Upsammy and Valentina Magaletti are releasing a collaborative album.

Spanning eight tracks, the roots of Seismo lay in a commission by Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, which saw the two artists soundtrack an exhibition featuring work from the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen in Rotterdam. A number of joint live shows between the pair followed, and a full-length album soon started to take shape.

Listen to lead track ‘Superimposed’ below.

PAN will release Seismo on April 10, 2026.

Seismo by upsammy & Valentina Magaletti
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Songs To Remember has been remastered for its updated release

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Scritti Politti’s 1982 debut album, Songs To Remember, is being reissued.

A remastered version of the LP, which is currently not available on streaming platforms and has been out of print on vinyl since 1985, is set to be released across digital, vinyl and CD formats.

Rough Trade is overseeing the reissue, and the label’s founder, Geoff Travis, said in a statement: “Mark E. Smith, a Rough Trade artist at the time, once said to me, ‘Scritti have the best rhythm section in rock music’. He didn’t mention Green Gartside, so I don’t know what he thought of him. I do know that at Rough Trade we were all in…

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It’s the second song to be unveiled from forthcoming album PLAY ME

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Kim Gordon has shared a new song, titled ‘DIRTY TECH’.

Offering a critique of artificial intelligence and the use of some modern technology, the track retains the trap leanings of some of the material found on her past solo albums. In a statement about the song, Gordon said: “I was kind of musing about, is my next boss going to be an AI chatbot? We’re the first ones whose lights are going to go out – not the tech billionaires. It’s so abstract that people can’t comprehend.”

Watch a video for ‘DIRTY TECH’, made by director Moni Haworth, below.

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The Radiohead guitarist said Universal licensed one of his songs for use in the film without his permission

Radiohead’s Jonny Greenwood has criticised major label Universal for licensing a piece of his music to be included in Melania, the recent film about Melania Trump, without his permission.

The movie includes an extended excerpt of Greenwood’s song ‘Barbara Rose’, which he composed for the score for the Paul Thomas Anderson film Phantom Thread. Neither Greenwood nor Anderson approved the use of the song, and have now jointly requested that it be removed from the film.

A statement released on their behalf said: “It has come to our attention that a piece of music from Phantom Thread has been used in the Melania documentary. While…

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In the second pod of 2026, John and Luke dive into the game changing waters of Missy Elliott’s third album

Missy Elliott (along with Timbaland) meets The Quietus’ benchmark for genius, not necessarily via the route of producing three all time great albums in a row but as someone who changed popular music decisively, twice. And it is the exemplification of the second of these occasions, the stupendous Miss E… So Addictive album from 2001, which creates the Low Culture conversational glue of this months’ podcast. John and Luke consider the scenius of late 80s early 90s Virginia (compared to Oslo in the same period!) and the years of hard graft that eventually made Missy Elliott and Timbaland’s talent look so effortlessly achieved….

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The debut album from the North Carolina-born singer-songwriter-producer, finds the digital age’s only medieval princess bursting with ideas and cartoonish intensity. Truly, Hemlocke Springs contains multitudes

Those among us who harbour a secret fondness for ‘Be Prepared’ – Jeremy Irons’ delicious villain song in The Lion King – may well have pricked their ears last October when Hemlocke Springs released her single ‘Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Ankles’. It’s a demented tune, opening with a sped-up Nutcracker tinkle that gives way to an infectious romp, stuffed with cartoonish sound effects and ripe, expressive vocals: a song that sounds a bit like Scar on steroids, or Scar if he was releasing pop music from his lion’s cave in 2026.

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Charles Tyler Ensemble

Voyage from Jericho

Former Cecil Taylor side man brings together a band featuring Steve Reid and Earl Cross for a thrilling document of the New York loft jazz scene in the 1970s

Voyage from Jericho by Charles Tyler Ensemble

Released 51 years ago on Charles Tyler’s own Ak-Ba records, Voyage From Jericho captures a period when Downtown Manhattan lofts resonated to the sounds of a jazz avant-garde determined to do things on its own terms. Frederiksberg Records’ sumptuous reissue, complete with photographs, flyers and deeply researched liner notes by jazz scholar Cisco Bradley, brings this essential part of Tyler’s discography back into circulation. A brilliant alto and baritone saxophonist, Tyler is perhaps best known for his contributions to Albert Ayler’s transcendent…

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The Wakefield brothers spar with Fergal Kinney about the unlikely – and mutual – love affair between The Cribs and the combat sport.

Gary Jarman (R) spars with Andy Lee

When Amy Winehouse died in July 2011, the singer’s passing was a personal tragedy that also called time on a whole era. “It was a real stark moment,” reflects The Cribs’ bassist and vocalist Gary Jarman, speaking over Zoom from his home in Portland, Oregon. “It was a real wake-up call because of how not-unexpected it was that ultimately there would be casualties from that period. Because it was so intense.” 

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Mayhem

Liturgy of Death

Dense and textural, the reinvigorated Norwegian group’s seventh studio album finds them on iconoclastic form

Liturgy of Death (24-bit HD audio) by Mayhem

Norway’s prominence in extreme metal can be attributed not only to the dark, saturnine winters of Scandinavia, but also to deep-seated pagan traditions and the rebellious anti-Christian black metal counter-culture that emerged in the 1980s and 1990s. These elements intensified conditions necessary for the development of genres such as Death and Black metal.

As pioneers of the Norwegian Black Metal scene in the 1980s, Mayhem have continued to reign for over four decades in death and black metal, releasing new material roughly every five to seven years. Their seventh studio album, Liturgy of Death, is their “most commercial…

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