Caribou, caroline and Hyperdub are among the latest acts and imprints to sign up to geo-block their music from streaming services in the country

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No Music For Genocide, the boycott campaign that is encouraging musicians and record labels to geo-block their back catalogues from streaming platforms in Israel, now has more than 1000 backers.

Launched last month with the backing of more than 400 artists and imprints, the initiative encourages people to remove their music “from apartheid Israel as it commits genocide in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the occupied West Bank”. Caribou, caroline, Lorde, Obongjayar, Duval Timothy, Skee Mask, Dry Cleaning, KMRU, Laurel Halo, Orbital and Fatima Al Qadiri are among the latest artists to back the campaign, while labels such…

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Richard Ashcroft

Lovin’ You

The Verve singer returns, but he’s treading water and long out of ideas, finds J.R. Moores

How little music must one have been exposed to in order to actually enjoy the recent comeback single from this Lucky Man?

Surely this drivel would appeal only to those who are so culturally compliant that their favourite TV programme is The Real Housewives Of Vacuityville. As for the paintings on their living room walls? ‘Nice Set Of Pins #236 (working title)’ by Jack Vettriano. Rest in peace, big man. Or, as he was also known, Pabno Picassno. Their favourite novel of the year so far? Dan Brown’s airport bothering The Secretest Secret Of Most Secretive Secretions. The spiciest meal consumed by such incurious…

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Robin Richards

Taproots

The Dutch Uncles frontman finds new shoots from old roots, finds Mary Chiney

Taproots by Robin Richards

There are artists who treat solo albums as side notes, and there are those who seize the chance to excavate new terrain. With Taproots, Robin Richards, principal composer of Manchester’s idiosyncratic art-pop band Dutch Uncles, delivers a record that feels less like a digression and more like a statement of intent. If Dutch Uncles built their reputation on angular pop exuberance, Richards’ debut long-player re-roots him in a more contemplative, exploratory soil: part electronic meditation, part modern classical suite, part intimate diary.

Richards is no stranger to ambitious projects. With Dutch Uncles, he helped shape six albums that earned comparisons to Talking Heads for their…

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The long-out-of-print live album from Davis, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter and Tony Williams is to be made newly available in 10xLP and 8xCD editions

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The Complete Live At The Plugged Nickel 1965, one of Miles Davis’ most mythical live albums, is getting a new reissue.

Set to be made available in new 10xLP and 8xCD editions, the updated release gives a new lease of live to an album that has been out of print for three decades. An excerpted 2xLP version, Live At The Plugged Nickel: December 23, 1965 – Second Set, will also be made available on November 28 for Record Store Day Black Friday.

Recorded at the titular Chicago club, which was based under a bakery, The Complete Live At The Plugged…

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HiTech and Lauren Duffus are among the last additions to the bill

Portuguese festival Mucho Flow has shared the full lineup for its upcoming 2025 edition.

Taking place across three days in Guimarães, the festival will newly host sets from HiTech, Lauren Duffus, Simo Cell back-to-back Verraco, Minna-no-Kimochi and recent AD 93 signee feeo, among others.

They join the previously announced likes of These New Puritans, YHWH Nailgun, Maria Somerville, Los Thuthanaka and Nick Leön.

Mucho Flow will take place from October 30 to November 1, 2025. Find more information here.
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The much-loved techno project’s four albums for the label are also being repressed on vinyl

Tresor is reissuing Fusion Flats, a 2000 EP by Drexciya, on vinyl.

The updated release marks the first time the record has been made physically available since its original pressing, while it will also come to digital download and streaming platforms for the first time.

The EP – which also features remixes of the title cut by Octave One, Kaotic Spacial Rhythms and 043 Chaos – has been remastered especially for the reissue, and features new artwork by Detroit-based contemporary artist Matthew Angelo Harrison, who has worked on the covers for past editions of Tresor’s Drexciya reissue series.

The label is repressing the four other Drexciya record in its back…

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Poised to release their first Soulwax album in eight years, Stephen and David Dewaele talk Gemma Samways through their tenure at the forefront of the rock dance crossover. Main portrait by Nadine Fraczkowski

Stephen and David Dewaele are a little hazy when it comes to dates. “We always thought the origins of Soulwax were 94 or 95, but I recently found stuff from December 91,” admits David, the younger Dewaele brother by five years. 

You can forgive their imprecision: for three-plus decades the Belgians have worked pretty much exhaustively, releasing an intimidating array of studio albums, compilations, remix records and original soundtracks, under a range of creative aliases including Soulwax, Radio Soulwax, Nite Versions, Klanken and the Krautrock-inspired Die Verboten. And that’s…

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The Plan

Mountain View

Ten years on from their acclaimed debut, the Southend-on-Sea post-punk quintet sound spookier than ever, finds Zara Hedderman

Mountain View by THE PLAN

Spooky season is upon us, and The Plan have made an album filled with songs suitable to soundtrack a B-horror film. Returning almost a decade after the Rebecca Gillieron-led project’s warmly received first LP, Nervous Energy, the Southend-on-Sea group’s follow-up, Mountain View, replaces the jaunty no wave sensibility of their debut with a more focused post-punk strut. The intentional gaps within The Plan’s earlier arrangements have been filled in and the band – which has also grown from the trio of Gillieron, Leigh Curtis and James Chapman to include Hayley Hatton adding wonderful flashes of keys and…

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Aug Stone explores the myriad riddles and resonances of the new novel by the author of Gravity’s Rainbow

Knowing what exactly is going on has never really been the point of appreciating Thomas Pynchon, and that’s something his protagonists share with us readers. Though in the case of Shadow Ticket’s Hicks McTaggart, other characters are often fond of highlighting that everyone knows a certain fact but Hicks himself. And that’s despite his line of trade as a private eye. Detective work, both professional and amateur, is of course not unfamiliar to Pynchon novels, with his last two books centering on folks similarly employed. But Hicks’ cheap suits are cut from a different cloth, their shading more nuanced than Bleeding Edge’s Jewish…

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Ian Thompson’s new book Synths, Sax & Situationists explores the legacy of soixante-huit through the music of bands like Cheval Fou, Barricade, Maajun and Fille Qui Mousse. It offers a “vivid” account with an “impressive” number of interviews, finds Michel Faber

In May 1968, Paris was overrun with street-fighting men, and street-fighting women, girls, boys and even pissed-off pensioners. They weren’t protesting against asylum seekers or a genocide in Palestine; rather, they were protesting against things that foreign observers, half a century later, still find difficult to comprehend. It seems as if the French citizenry just got fed up with the old-fashionedness of the establishment.

Many books have been written about the events of May ’68, but Ian Thompson’s Synths, Sax &…

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