Proceeds from the track featuring the late guitarist will be donated to the New Art Studio, who support refugees and asylum seekers through art therapy

Seb Rochford has shared ‘Til The Day I’m Gone’, a new track via his Finding Ways project, featuring the late guitarist Patrick Walden.

Walden, who played with Rochford in Babyshambles when the latter served as a live drummer, died aged 47 in June 2025. “Patrick was for me, one of the best guitarists to ever play,” Rochford says. “I loved the way that his playing at once was so beautiful and crunchy, so wild and on the edge, but his ears were always listening so deeply and when with Babyshambles, he sculpted around Peter’s vocals in…

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Mary Chiney celebrates the soundtrack to Akinola Davies Jr.’s debut feature film, depicting a single eventful day in Lagos, during 1993

My Father's Shadow (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Duval Timothy & CJ Mirra

The summer of 1993 in Lagos exists in the collective memory as a period of suspended animation. It was a time defined by the heavy, humid silence that precedes a storm, specifically the political storm of the 12 June election annulment and the subsequent creeping dread of the Abacha years. When Folarin, the patriarch in Akinola Davies Jr.’s My Father’s Shadow, mutters that “sometimes… it’s hard to know what to do,” he isn’t just speaking to his sons; he is articulating the paralysis of an entire middle class caught…

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Roshi Nasehi, a Welsh Iranian artist, speaks to fellow musicians about the dangers of allowing the protest movement to be hijacked by hard left anti-imperialist ideologues and outlines how practical help can be offered to those currently suffering in Iran

Graffiti in Khorramabad reads ‘death to the dictator’, Wiki Commons

Every Iranian I know has, at some point, been personally sent a death threat, arrested or tortured by agents of the Islamic Republic. Even the luckiest ones know someone who has suffered a fate that is similar or worse: they have a loved one or loved ones who have been disappeared or murdered.

Right now, the Iranian dictatorship is currently in the middle of its most deadly crackdown since its bloody inception in 1979. Since late December,…

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Sam Slater

Lunng

Sam Slater’s highly collaborative new LP plays out like an elegy for a world and way of living we’ve yet to lose but are on the verge of losing, says Bernie Brooks

Lunng by Sam Slater

Lunng is the title of Sam Slater’s third namesake LP. With two N’s. I say it out loud. Roll it around my mouth a little bit. Lunnnnnng. It becomes less an organ and more like some new disease you get from living next to a data centre that’s burning through methane and fresh water to disrupt the sex-crime chatbot industry.

On the cover, it’s night. There’s a car on fire all by its lonesome. The aftermath of something. No people but its headlamps are on. How…

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Dele Fadele looks back to The Bad Seeds album that has odd parallels with gangsta rap. This feature was first published in 2016

In the mid-1990s, I spotted Nick Cave’s distinct figure at London’s Subterrania venue, under The Westway, for gigs by Wu-Tang Clan leader GZA and Method Man. Cave appeared as enthused as the rest of the room at Genius/GZA’s show, and I imagine he couldn’t have failed to have heard ‘Luminal’ from Legend Of The Liquid Sword, a controversial track that severely dented that excellent LP’s commercial prospects with its grisly depictions of the serial killer’s methodology and awful deeds. Certain acolytes of Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds were also staunch Geto Boys fans. If GZA and…

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In the return of his quarterly column exploring bold new takes on traditional music and sounds, Patrick Clarke speaks to the figures behind the new Black British Folk Collective about their story so far, and reviews eleven new records including harsh noise bodhran, an extraordinary Occitan freakout, Armenian duduk, Polish oberek and more

Bianca Wilson at Land In Our Names’ Birthday Folk Session. Photo by Fatima Yasmin

In October last year the musician Angeline Morrison, whose 2022 masterpiece The Sorrow Songs drew on deep research to present new folk music that centred the real Black British figures who are often written out of history, was invited to curate an all-day programme at Cecil Sharp House – the headquarters of the English Folk…

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Annie Hogan

Tongues In My Head

Intense but beguiling, former Marc Almond and Einstürzende Neubauten collaborator conjures sensual rituals and half-dirges

Annie Hogan is something of a quiet icon of goth and post-punk. A longtime friend of Marc Almond, she put on early Soft Cell shows and played with his dark cabaret side-project Marc and the Mambas. She appears on Barry Adamson’s seminal Moss Side Story and has worked with Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, and several members of Einstürzende Neubauten. She’s also been releasing evocative solo music since the late 1980s, the latest of which, the six track album Tongues In My Head, strikes an elegant balance of light and shade.

Opening track ‘Alles Ist Verloren’ is measured but bleak, a taxonomy of a…

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Manchester’s Mandy, Indiana haver never sounded so direct, so fierce, so angry as on this, their second album, a record which forcefully calls out rape culture and toxic masculinity amidst racing polyrhythms and a barrage of noise

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The striking cover art for Urgh depicts a human head recoiling in what looks like shock and agony. It’s one of “founder of human anatomy” Andreas Vesalius’s illustrations, rendered here in RGB layers by the artist Carnovsky, and a perfectly fitting image for an album that radiates abhorrence at recent events, both political and personal.

Developed over a rough couple of years for the band, with both singer Valentine Caulfield and drummer Alex Macdougall battling sickness and enduring multiple rounds of surgery,…

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The Liverpool festival will host ØXN, Mohammad Syfkhan and more this May

Outer Waves has confirmed plans for its second edition, taking place across two days this May.

Following its inaugural edition last year, the Liverpool festival will return once again with programming taking place across Invisible Wind Factory and Make North Docks in the city. This year’s lineup features the likes of ØXN, Mohammad Syfkhan, Dame Area, WaqWaq Kingdom, Lord Spikeheart, Sex Swing, Carmel Smickersgill, and Keeley Forsyth & Matthew Bourne, among others.

Beyond the music programming, the festival will also feature workshops, panel discussions and art installations, with full details on those set to be announced in the coming months.

Outer Waves will take place from 23 to 24 May 2026. Find…

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When There Is No Sun draws on the Arkestra’s 2022 album Living Sky, as well as a 2023 release celebrating Sun Ra’s poetry

Ricardo Villalobos has curated a new remix compilation of work by Sun Ra Arkestra.

The 12-track When There Is No Sun sees the likes of Underground Resistance, Calibre, Chez Damier, A Guy Called Gerald and Villalobos himself rework material from the Arkestra’s 2022 album Living Sky. The compilation also makes use of 2023 release My Words Are Music: A Celebration Of Sun Ra’s Poetry, which saw the likes of Saul Williams, Tara Middleton and Mahogany L. Browne deliver spoken word pieces inspired by the late musician’s poetry.

Listen to Underground Resistance’s Saul Williams-featuring take on ‘When Angels Speak’ below.

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