News of Wilson’s death at the age of 82 was shared by his family

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Brian Wilson, the musician best known for his pioneering work with The Beach Boys, has died aged 82.

The news was shared in a post by Wilson’s family on social media, which said: “We are heartbroken to announce that our beloved father Brian Wilson has passed away. We are at a loss for words right now. Please respect our privacy at this time as our family is grieving. We realize that we are sharing our grief with the world. Love & Mercy.”

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The 23-track TD10 features new cuts by Pearson Sound, Skee Mask, 33EMYBW and more

Batu, photo by Finnegan Travers

Timedance, the label run out of Bristol by Batu, is set to mark its 10th anniversary with the release of a compilation, TD10.

Featuring 23 tracks, the collection brings together cuts from longtime affiliates of the label, as well as others making their debut on the imprint. Among the debutants are Pearson Sound, Skee Mask, 33EMYBW, Minor Science, Bambounou, Polygonia and Lechuga Zafiro. Returning to the label with new cuts are Verraco, re:ni, Metrist, Lurka and, naturally, Batu.

Alongside the compilation’s release, Timedance will be marking its 10-year anniversary with a run of special events led by a collaboration with Tilburg festival Draaimolen this September, which will…

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The Prague event will take in sets from Loraine James’ Whatever The Weather project and Colin Self

Lunchmeat Festival has shared the first wave of acts playing its 2025 edition later this year.

Returning to multiple venues across Prague, the event’s 16th edition will take in special performances from Loraine James’ Whatever The Weather project; Colin Self, presenting their Gasp! show; Danny L Harle, who will showcase all-new music; Mun Sing, with an audiovisual live show; and Lee Gamble, who will DJ.

Also confirmed are Ursula Sereghy; Saint Abdullah, Eomac & Rebecca Salvadori, presenting their audiovisual live show A Forbidden Distance; mʊdʌki & phonon~, with the world premiere of an audiovisual show called Drizzle; Aitcher Clark; and Gorgonn & Utku Önal, who present…

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Ahead of his performance of FAVN at Milan’s Terraforma Exo this month, Siobhán Kane speaks to artist Florian Hecker 

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Florian Hecker is an artist who explores the sensual and psychological side of the listening process. FAVN is a distillation of that exploration, with almost a decade of shapeshifting history, from its early imaginings in 2016 at Alte Oper, Frankfurt, to the exhibition Halluzination, Perspektive, Synthese in 2017 at Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, and a forthcoming reimagining for Terraforma in Milan on 28 June.

FAVN is described as an “automated performance tracing the blurry boundaries between reality and imagination, sensory perception and hallucination”. 19th century conceits are everywhere, from the emergence of psychophysics, to the Stéphane Mallarmé poem ‘L’après-midi d’un faun’…

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Alan Sparhawk

With Trampled By Turtles

The best songs on Alan Sparhawk’s second post-Low ‘solo’ album are unforgettable, triggering gut punches, says Bernie Brooks

With Trampled by Turtles by Alan Sparhawk

Man, this Alan Sparhawk guy. What a legacy, huh?

For nearly thirty years, until the untimely passing from cancer of his partner in life and music Mimi Parker brought an equally untimely end to the band, slowcore OGs Low could seemingly do no wrong. They are, I think, one of the rare cases where a band’s later, genre-defying music arguably eclipses its earlier genre-defining output. Nowadays, people are seemingly more likely to cite 2005’s comparatively tumultuous The Great Destroyer or 2021’s noisy swan song HEY WHAT as career high points than they are the…

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From Montreal to Warsaw via Tblisi, Cleveland and Dublin, Noel Gardner’s guide to the best in punk and HC returns

Powerplant, photo by Aria Shahrokhshahi

In June 2025, and in the moment of listening, Sublux are the greatest hardcore punk band in the world and Disorder In The Machinery by Sublux is the greatest hardcore punk release in the world. Perhaps you think this an implausible statement, about a group who have not released anything prior to this seven-song tape and played but a handful of London support gigs, or think I am engaging in hyperbole for cynical reasons. Be assured I am motivated only by love and seek to translate into prose the deathless excitement I felt on first hearing this…

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Franz Treichler guides David Stubbs through the archives of the Swiss trio who repurposed the sampler to give rock a new, industrial lease of life in  the 1980s, before venturing into space influenced by ambient and techno. Portrait by Charlotte Walker

In the mid-1980s, the proliferation of samplers provided, for many musicians, a mere means to filch the choice elements of a  supposedly superior past, from old soul licks to John Bonham’s gargantuan kick drum. The sampler became an instrument of postmodernism, a wry admission that there was supposedly nothing new under the sun and all that was left for modern music was to pick at the carcass of its history. 

Franz Treichler, who had fronted a punk group in his native…

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Quinton Barnes

Black Noise

The Montreal producer fuses ambience and elegance in a highly charged exploration of Afropessimism

Black Noise by Quinton Barnes

Black Noise is exploratory from gun to tape, abstract in its use of soundscape to communicate Quinton Barnes’ experience of alienation. Barnes sought inspiration from the critical framework of Afropessimism and its ontological exploration of the spectacle of Black death. Chaos reigns as if we are amidst nuclear outbreak or chemical warfare as Barnes opts to transmit a frenzy of drone-like noise appearing as a warning sign. “Just as I imagined, just as I pictured it,” Barnes says, becoming an integral refrain throughout Black Noise. The album is eerie and harsh in its embryonic stages before bursting into an avant-garde, jazz-like…

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It’s a reworked version of the original cut from the artist’s 2009 self-titled debut album

Fever Ray has shared a new track and accompanying video, ‘I’m Not Done (Therapy Session)’.

It’s a reworked version of the original ‘I’m Not Done’, which appeared on Fever Ray’s 2009 self-titled debut album. The new take on the song was first debuted live as part of the Swedish artist’s most recent tour in support of 2023 album Radical Romantics.

The track’s visual features Fever Ray, real name Karin Dreijer, in costume as various characters who previously appeared in the videos for Radical Romantics cuts ‘What They Call Us’, ‘Kandy’, ‘Even It Out’, ‘North’ and ‘Shiver’. The characters are collective led through a group therapy session by a…

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It features contributions from St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner

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David Byrne has shared details of a new album, titled Who Is The Sky?

Spanning 12 tracks, the record was produced by Kid Harpoon and arranged by the members of New York-based chamber ensemble Ghost Train Orchestra. St. Vincent, Paramore’s Hayley Williams and Sons Of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner also appear on the LP, which is Byrne’s first since 2018’s American Utopia.t

In a statement, the former Talking Heads frontman said: “Someone I know said, ‘David, you use the word ‘everybody’ a lot.’ I suppose I do that to give an anthropological view of life in New York as we know it. Everybody lives,…

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