Kate French Morris heads to the ancient city of Guimarães in Portugal, where These New Puritans and a host of local acts guide her through the rain-lashed, autumnal gloom

These New Puritans by João Octávio Peixoto

They may be Essex boys, but Jack and George Barnett of These New Puritans make music that’s just as at home in the Portuguese city of Guimarães. Located a hairsbreadth inland from Porto, Guimarães may not share the main character energy of its neighbour, nor the country’s capital, but it’s in fact considered to be the birthplace of Portugal. The small city moves at its own pace. Its narrow streets with their ancient, bulging buildings and countless alminhas (street-side Catholic shrines) are easily clogged by modernity: on my…

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Gary Suarez gives us an American perspective on one of Autechre’s most revered albums and a duo about to sever all remaining ties to the culture that surrounded them. First published in 2015

When The KLF orchestrated their 1992 televised kiss off to the industry, there seemed little intent on their part to put on a good show. Replete with automatic weapons, dead livestock, and the grindcore stylings of Extreme Noise Terror, the Brit Awards version of ‘3AM Eternal’ looked and sounded awful. Even by their already well-known standards of mischief making and reputation for taking the piss, this was radical. Having mixed, remixed, sampled, and re-sampled their way to fame and small fortune with their dance music beginning in the…

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Charmaine Lee

Tulpa

With a contact mic taped to her throat, the Australian vocalist expands the very concept of vocal music

Tulpa by Charmaine Lee

In Tibetan mysticism, a ‘tulpa’ is a being created through the art of intense concentration. For composer, vocalist and sound artist Charmaine Lee, the concept extends to the human voice and all its mystery. Vocals can be material or transient; organic or an otherworldly entity. With Tulpa, she approaches the voice with attentiveness to its every angle, sculpting eight uncompromising tracks that highlight its malleability.

Tulpa centres and expands the vocal techniques Lee has shaped over the last several years through releases like 2021’s KNVF and live performances as a soloist and collaborator. She tapes a contact mic on her…

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On their seventh stellar album in a row, the unbeatable duo of Elucid and Billy Woods find space for small, everyday joys amongst the horror of contemporary geopolitics

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Horsham in West Sussex is a bracingly middle-class market town manifested, seemingly, from a flag-raiser’s most libidinal fantasies. Ten minutes away sits a paintball park, nestled beneath the nearby pine trees. Places like these are familiar to any British teenager, the kind of attraction frequented at either 17 or 32 and vanished from the psyche entirely for the duration of the years between. Like most parks like it, this one is strewn with approximations of war. Khaki canvases, corrugated bunkers, reactive targets and – unique to this particular course – the…

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The fifth song to be unveiled from forthcoming album Tranquilizer also comes backed by a video

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Oneohtrix Point Never has shared a new track, ‘Cherry Blue’.

Arriving as the fifth song to be unveiled from forthcoming album Tranquilizer, the song is backed by a video from French contemporary artist Pol Taburet, which marks his filmmaking debut. Using surrealist imagery, the painter’s visual explores themes of life and death, among other topics. You can watch it below.

Oneohtrix Point Never, real name Daniel Lopatin, previously shared the tracks ‘For Residue’, ‘Bumpy’, ‘Lifeworld’ and ‘Measuring Ruins’ from Tranquilizer, which was announced last month. Following on from 2023’s Again, the new record is “shaped by commercial audio construction kits from a bygone era…

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The film was captured during the band’s performance at London’s Troxy late last year to mark the release of Songs Of A Lost World

The Cure are releasing a new concert film, Show Of A Lost World.

Directed by filmmaker and longtime collaborator Nick Wickham, the film was captured during the band’s November 2024 performance at London’s Troxy to celebrate the release of their most recent LP, Songs Of A Lost World. Frontman Robert Smith handled the mixing of the film, which will debut in cinemas on December 11.

During the Troxy performance, the band played 31 songs, including the album in full. They also marked the 45th anniversary of their album Seventeen Seconds during the set.

Songs Of A Lost World was The Cure’s first…

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EChanging Barcode LLC’s legal action claims that Ticketmaster’s SafeTix system infringes its rotating-barcode patent

Live Nation and junior ticketing company Ticketmaster are facing a lawsuit over their mobile ticketing technology.

In a suit filed last week, at the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, EChanging Barcode LLC alleged that Ticketmaster’s SafeTix platform amounts to an infringement of its own rotating, encrypted barcode technology, which is designed to prevent ticket fraud through screenshots.

EChanging is also pushing forward with a separate lawsuit in the same court against Major League Baseball’s digital media arm over an alleged infringement of the same patent.

This is the second lawsuit that has been levelled at Live Nation and Ticketmaster in as many months. In September,…

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The digital music distributor has opened the new platform up in beta form to select artists for now

Digital music distributor DistroKid has launched a new artist platform which aims to help artists easily set up their own online stores to sell merchandise.

The platform, called Direct, has been rolled out in beta form to select artists for now, but will be pushed more widely in the coming weeks. DistroKid will handle the production and shipping of merchandise via on-demand manufacturing, while artists will keep 100 percent of revenue from sales. The platform costs $6 per month to use, and launches in competition with similar such services from platforms like Bandcamp.

“We’re building simple tools that let artists share what they create,…

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Hilary Woods

Night CRIÚ

The Dublin artist returns to the voice as a source of mystery and power on an album of tender incantations, produced by Big Dean Hurley

Night CRIÚ by Hilary Woods

With the very rare exception, albums consciously released on Samhain itself are, at best, wax-dripped approximations of magick, spellwork as press-cycle. Night CRIÚ, Hilary Woods’ fourth album for Sacred Bones, is that exception. It hums with something older: a slow, secret electricity. The more you try to grasp, the more it draws its charge back into shadow. Blessedly, its outline remains enough to follow.

When I reviewed her debut album, Colt, in 2018, I wrote that Woods finding her way to Sacred Bones felt foreordained, as if she’d simply arrived where…

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Ahead of her performance at this year’s EFG London Jazz Festival, Tanita Tikaram takes Luke Turner through her favourite records, from the soundtrack of her childhood spent in military bases, via formative encounters with OMD and The Beatles, an abiding love of the jazz and soul greats, and more

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In 1988, when Tanita Tikaram was just 19, her debut album Ancient Heart became a chart success, selling four million albums and getting her nods at the BRIT Awards. Ever since, she’s moved in and out of the music business – To Drink the Rainbow (An Anthology 1988–2019), curated and released by music journalist Pete Paphides on Needle Mythology, is an execllent primer. This year, she released LIAR (Love Isn’t Right) earlier…

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