Tariq Goddard enjoys sets from Pulp, Angine de Poitrine, Gnod, Mozart Estate and more at Larmer Tree Gardens set in Thomas Hardy country. Main photograph of Pulp: Burak Cingi

Things ain’t what they used to be, which for many of us is a sign that history bends towards the light, at least as far as festival antics and amenities are concerned. No more Glasgow punks throwing a raver off a bridge because he wouldn’t shout ‘I Am Mussolini’. (I would have complied and been carried aloft in their arms like Maximus.) No more watching the sky blacken with bottles of piss intended for Meatloaf’s nose. No more lack of safe spaces. (Once upon a time not even a sleeping bag would…

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The record sees him lean back towards dance floor territory after last year’s SickElixir LP

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Blawan has a new EP on the way for XL Recordings.

Comprised of two tracks, titled ‘Gi Mi Keys Back’ and ‘Auto Fake’, the record builds on his mischievous modular techno sound of recent years, while leaning back towards dance floor territory after the more experimental reaches of last year’s SickElixir LP. A digital release of the EP is due later this month, while a limited edition 12-inch vinyl edition will follow on 13 November.

In a statement about the new record, the UK artist, real name Jamie Roberts, said: “[I’m] in the process of finding my feet again with my more dance floor-friendly excursions….

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Another Day On Earth and Drawn From Life, two of his records that have been largely out of print for almost two decades, are back in new editions

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Brian Eno has relaunched his cult label Opal Records after more than three decades of inactivity.

He’s marking the imprint’s return with the reissue of two of his albums that have been out of print outside of Japan for almost two decades. The first of those is 2005’s Another Day On Earth, which was Eno’s first song-based album since Nerve Net in 1992, while the other is his 2001 collaboration with J. Peter Schwalm, Drawn From Life, which featured guest contributions from Holger Czukay, Laurie Anderson and more.

Both reissues will be…

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Angus Andrew’s 11th studio album under the project name will be released in March

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Liars have shared details of a new album, titled A Ban On Plastic Bag Bans.

Spanning 11 tracks, the 11th studio LP from the Angus Andrew-led project follows 2021’s The Apple Drop. It explores the bureaucracy and corporate power that Andrew encountered while living in middle America, according to a press release.

The album takes its name from an actual Michigan law that prohibits local governments from banning single-use plastic bags. After relocating to Kalamazoo in Michigan with his wife and daughter a number of years ago, Andrew was drawn into a campaign to hold a local factory to account for its use of toxic pollutants,…

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Mike D

Thank You

A Beastie Boy looks back to the sounds that made the trio great while also drawing succour from the future

For the better part of a decade after fellow Beastie Boy Adam “MCA” Yauch died of cancer in 2012, a tragedy that also marked the end of the iconic hip-hop outfit, Mike D, understandably, just couldn’t bring himself to make music. “I’d open a computer file, and I’d just feel sadness,” he said. The past was too heavy to lift; it kept him from reaching into a well he’d always been able to access with ease. It was ultimately the future that unburdened him: working on songs with his sons, Skyler and Davis, during the pandemic planted the seed…

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Underground hero and Sly & The Family Drone bandleader Matt Cargill sits with Jon Buckland to discuss the free jazz, hip hop, horror and noise that has shaped his life.

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You could have crossed paths with Matt Cargill keeping the show on the road at such cream-of-the-crop festivals as Supernormal and Acid Horse. Maybe you’ve been privy to his perennially bonkers and joyous rooftop takeovers at Birmingham’s Supersonic Festival. Perhaps you’ve seen him at his day job running tech at the King Alfred Phoenix Theatre in Golders Green. Or you might even have spotted him at the Hope And Ruin one Brighton Halloween, in a hail of fake blood and tissue wads, thrashing the life out of a…

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This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of a groundbreaking TV series on immigration set in Birmingham. John Quin revisits and ponders its relevance to the current moment

Just like before – as Karen Carpenter once sang – it’s ‘Yesterday Once More’. The sha-la-la-la days are over and the woah, woah-ohs you hear on TV these days are the screams of ICE victims. Fascism is on the rise in France and Germany. Here the British tabloids express a naked hatred of immigrants while masked thugs block the streets in Dover and fling Sieg Heils with impunity in Glasgow. The more alert corners of the media make comparisons with the late 1920s and early 1930s, the failing Weimar Republic, the rise of…

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From outbreaks of greasy schlockabilly to strutting Melbourne garage rock and leftist blackened hardcore from Essex, Noel Gardner delivers his latest guide to the best new punk rock releases

Lothario, image by Rag & Bone Photography

There’s an enduring urban myth about a man who, having been banned for life from his local bar decades ago, presumes it’s all long forgotten and pays a return visit. No sooner has he stepped through the door than he’s told “fuck off Ken” (or whatever his name is in the story) by the landlord. That’s what this new self-titled album by Swedish D-beat giants Totalitär is like, snapping back into belligerence after the passing of a generation as if it’d been five minutes.

Released by De:nihil…

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Sir Richard Bishop

Hillbilly Erotica

A surprisingly beautiful turn in the Sun City Girl’s ongoing exploration and expansion of US folk guitar styles

Hillbilly Erotica by Sir Richard Bishop

Released by the always interesting Drag City comes this new offering from former Sun City Girls guitarist Sir Richard Bishop. Bishop has an extensive back catalogue which holistically covers dozens of albums, indeed just his solo output is pushing twenty releases. Hillbilly Erotica follows last year’s Hillbilly Ragas, and rather than a gear change, it feels more like a continuation of musical principle. The ‘Erotica’ side of things is perhaps a little playfully misleading as the titles, such as ‘Hooker’s Bend’, ‘Finger, Tennessee’ and so on refer to place names within a certain proximity to…

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Peter Ross talks to the Green Lung frontman about the ‘Magnificent Seven’ graveyards of London, and transcending fear of death. Main photograph taken in Barnes Old Cemetery

At Green Lung gigs, frontman Tom Templar has a particular way of introducing the band: “We play Old English, black magic, forest-dwelling, mushroom-eating, goat-bothering, devil-worshipping heavy fucking metal.”

It is a neat summary of their aesthetic, though he might add “graveyard-visiting” as that is part of the vibe, too. Forthcoming album Necropolitan was inspired by the so-called “Magnificent Seven” – the grand, atmospheric Victorian cemeteries that encircle London, of which Highgate is the best known.

Formed in the capital in 2018, the five-piece have so far released three LPs: Woodland Rites, Black Harvest and This Heathen…

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