Mitski

Nothing’s About to Happen to Me

Mitski decamps to Nashville for an album of murder ballads that leans a little country

Nothing's About to Happen to Me by Mitski

Mitski has a talent for creating unique and unifying sounds for her albums. In the same way the acoustic arrangements of her previous album, 2023’s The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, leaned close to folk, the pedal steel, organ and strings of her eighth album, Nothing’s About to Happen to Me, approaches country territory. The narrative style of the lyrics – and a mention of Death “moseying” away – suggests that living in Nashville may have rubbed off on her.

This is present from opening song ‘In a Lake’, a twangy treatise on…

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It’s the band’s first studio album since 2011 debut Go Tell Fire To The Mountain

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WU LYF have shared details of their second studio album, A Wave That Will Never Break.

The band’s follow-up to 2011’s Go Tell Fire To The Mountain features seven tracks and its announcement comes after they reunited for a series of live shows in 2025. Those gigs were the group’s first in 13 years having split in late 2012.

WU LYF are planning to release the album, which was produced by Spacemen 3’s Sonic Boom, through their L Y F community, according to a press release, and it will not be made available on any major streaming platforms.

In a statement, the band said: “The vision for…

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They’re his first solo tracks since 2024 album White Roses, My God

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Low’s Alan Sparkhawk has released two new songs, titled ‘JCMF’ and ‘No More Darkness’.

They mark the first release of solo material from the US artist since he put out his album White Roses, My God in September 2024. Both songs feature Sparhawk on guitar and vocals, with help from Eric Pollard on drums and Alan’s son Cyrus on bass.

Speaking about ‘JCMF’, the elder Sparkhawk said: “This is a song I’ve had for a few years, but couldn’t find the right way to play or record it. We started playing it last year in the Alan Sparhawk Solo Band, on tour, and with each month, the sentiment…

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The record sees Schmidt play prepared and unprepared piano alongside environmental recordings captured near his home in Southern France

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Can’s Irmin Schmidt has a new solo album on the way, titled Requiem.

Split into two parts that clock in together at 41 minutes, the LP sees 89-year-old Schmidt play prepared and unprepared piano alongside environmental field recordings captured in the surroundings of his home in Southern France.

After feeling compelled to record the sounds of a nightingale singing in his garden, Schmidt went on to build up an archive of further sounds, covering water, birds and frog noises. The piano-playing that appears on the record was spontaneous and edited at a later date, with the help of long-time collaborator René…

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The Dutch festival takes place this April

Eiko Ishibashi performing at Rewire 2024, photo by Alicia Karsonopoero

Rewire has added a third wave of acts to the bill for its 2026 edition.

Taking place across multiple venues in The Hague, the festival will now feature a special performance of Moritz von Oswald’s vocal piece Silencio with help from The Hague Vocal Ensemble, while Moor Mother and Jamal Moss, otherwise known as Hieroglyphic Being, will join forces as Immaculate Deception Of History.

Other additions to the lineup include By Storm; The Bug & Dis Fig; Valentina Magaletti & YPY; Leila Bordreuil; Nazar; Colleen; and a back-to-back DJ set from Kode9 and Deena Abdelwahed.

They all join the previously announced likes of Kim Gordon, Blawan, Armand Hammer,…

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Powered by The National Lottery, Everywhere At Once will see grassroots music venues across the UK put on special gigs on what would have been Glastonbury weekend

Thekla in Bristol is one of Everywhere At Once’s participating venues

The Music Venue Trust has partnered with The National Lottery to launch a new nationwide music festival project aimed at supporting grassroots music venues.

Everywhere At Once, spread out across the final June weekend on which Glastonbury would usually take place, will see music venues up and down the UK put on a series of special gigs, covering major artists, touring acts and emerging local talent. The project has also been launched with the support of pressure groups Save Our Scene and Association of Independent Promoters.

In…

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Tom Jenkinson’s 21st studio album is due out in April

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Squarepusher is releasing a new album this spring.

Comprised of 14 tracks, Kammerkonzert is Tom Jenkinson’s 21st studio LP under the pseudonym, and combines elements of orchestral music with experimental electronic sounds. The record’s title translates from German to English as ‘chamber concert’.

This is Squarepusher’s first album release since 2024’s Dostrotime, and it’s led by the single ‘K2 Central’, which you can listen to below.

Warp Records will release Kammerkonzert on 10 April 2026.

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In this month’s subscriber essay, Kyle MacNeill loads up The Getaway, a perfectly preserved simulator of The Big Smoke in its the early 00s

“She’s not the slightest bit squeamish about a bit of claret.” Outside my penthouse flat, a gang of mercenaries are squabbling about how to kidnap my son. As I get to the window, I see them shoot my wife and snatch the kid before bundling into a red Jensen Interceptor. My wife dies into my arms, gasping a dying request: “Get our son back.” Fight and flight fuse together and I jump into my green Alfa Romeo, in hot pursuit of the Jensen. Pumping techno soundtracks the chase, sounding for all the world as if Luke Slater…

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Three months to go until Acid Horse festival; Noel Gardner selects ten must sees from The Ex to Lord Spikeheart, via futurist mutant rave and ancient, hairy French-Alpine folk invocations! For top tier subscribers there’s also an essential audio guide to Acid Horse past & present

The Ex live, by Susana Martens

Acid Horse 26 is a three day, two stage music festival held on 22 to 24 May in the beautiful Barge Inn, next to a canal in Wiltshire

This Spring Bank Holiday weekend – 22 to 24 May – will be lit up by the fourth consecutive edition of Acid Horse, which for a music festival – certainly a small DIY affair for discerning trippers, like this one – is the…

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Understated yet subtly devastating, the Oakland, California-baed artist turns down the aggression of previous album Spike Field in favour of a more tender kind of violence

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In life and art, strong emotional reactions and restraint are frequently placed at odds with one another. A decade that has felt unmoored at best and marked by upheaval – dotted with climate events that have wrought havoc on different locales and been quickly forgotten – has inspired plenty of bold artistic responses. For Maria BC, an artist whose work has covered dark folk and goth territory and who has explored the potential of different electronic elements, the impulse to respond to these environmental pressures by being louder, denser, more aggressive would seem…

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