Recorded with the band’s classic lineup, the track has been shared to mark what would have been Marc Bolan’s 78th birthday

A previously unreleased song by T. Rex, dating back to 1975, has been shared online for the first time.

Titled ‘I’m Dazed’, it’s been released to mark what would have been Marc Bolan’s 78th birthday. The band originally committed a recording of the song to tape at Paris’ Château d’Hérouville in March 1975 , but the version released today was recorded at Munich’s Musicland Studios a month later.

Produced by Bolan and engineered by Reinhold Mack, the song features T. Rex’s classic lineup of Bolan, Steve Currie, Gloria Jones, Davey Lutton and Dino Dines. You can listen to the track below.

The release…

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Saxophonist John Butcher will now play a solo set at the Latvian festival

Skaņu Mežs has finalised the lineup for its 2025 edition, which gets underway this weekend.

Marking a change to the previously announced festival programme, British improvising saxophonist John Butcher will play a solo set at this year’s festival. It was previously announced that guitarist Bill Nace would join Butcher onstage, but the former will no longer be able to play at the event due to unforeseen circumstances.

The Riga-based festival has also revealed that Palestine-based artist Muqata’a will no longer be able to perform as scheduled due to the Israeli border closures in Palestine this week amid the country’s ongoing military assault on Gaza.

This year’s Skaņu Mežs will take in…

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A new-found emphasis on melody to the fore, the Slovenian trio triumphantly capture the sense of music evolving even as it’s played

ŠIROM, jun 2025

Širom’s approach is contradictory. Their music is rooted in the traditional, yet never becomes a prisoner of what’s gone before. It is expansive, playful, seemingly always looking for a way to spiral upwards and outwards, into the future. The group’s preferred term for what they do is “imaginary folk”. The term was first coined by the French musicologist Serge Moreux to describe the creative approach to Hungarian traditions applied by composers like Bartók and Kodály. Like their forebears across the Pannonian Plain, Širom’s relationship to the customs and rituals of Southeast Europe is ‘idealised’, chimerical – and all…

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The father of Ethio jazz is back with a clutch of masterful new reinterpretations of his own compositions. Irina Shtreis talks to Mulatu Astatke and offers us ten points of entry into his back catalogue. Portrait by Karston Tannis

In Hindu cosmology, the world is traditionally depicted as a dome resting on the backs of four strong elephants, who themselves stand on the shell of a giant tortoise. In the traditional music of the Ethiopian Highlands there are four sturdy modes which support the country’s distinctive modal musical system called Qiñit; and they are tezeta, bati, ambassel, and anchihoy. And so fundamental are they to the Ethiopian sound that they often fully or partially make up song names. You can spot them cropping up…

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C.A.R.

Dance at Oscar’s

Formerly of Battant, Chloé Raunet re-positions herself between machine-funk delirium and pure pop abandon, finds Mary Chiney

Dance at Oscar's by C.A.R.

There’s something slippery about C.A.R. Even the name (supposedly standing for ‘Choosing Acronyms Randomly’) suggests a refusal to sit still, a project built on sidesteps and evasions. At the centre is Chloé Raunet, once the voice of East London electro trio Battant, now steering her own vessel through waters that shimmer between post-punk unease, frostbitten electronics and pop music with too much self-awareness to play it straight. If Raunet’s earlier work sounded like someone hunting for catharsis in shadowy corners, her latest album, Dance At Oscar’s, turns towards the light – though it’s a light that flickers, restless…

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The venue, “as we know it”, will close its doors in March 2026

Corsica Studios is to close in 2026.

Responding to recent media reports that the club will soon close, the team behind the venue confirmed the news in a social media post, adding: “We had wanted to be the ones to tell you first.”

It continued: “We truly appreciate all of the interest in our current situation and the numerous heartfelt messages of support. However, it’s important that we first address a few inaccurate comments and assumptions that have appeared recently in the media.

“As Southwark Council will attest, we are a well-run, considerate venue operator and we are not on the receiving end of any noise complaints from local residents. We…

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On new record Humanise, HAAi confronts a world where our relationships are increasingly controlled by algorithms, and finds a counterforce in the joy of real-life connection. She speaks to Karly Quadros about the volatility of technology, the record’s found family of collaborators and the power of the human voice

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As the music industry stares down the barrel of an AI-shaped gun, there are few better suited to find the human heart in the machine than Teneil Throssell, aka HAAi. An expansive producer with a songwriter’s unerring sense of timing, a DJ’s intuition, and a psychonaut’s willingness to plunge ever deeper, on new record Humanise HAAi is looking to the things that can’t be synthesised; the record is a…

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Agriculture

The Spiritual Sound

For their second album, the Californian four-piece broaden their scope, but the thrilling bursts of black metal remain the group’s ecstatic core

The Spiritual Sound by Agriculture

The first minute of ‘My Garden’ opens The Spiritual Sound in dramatic and instructive style. A count-in of bass hits launches a storm of blast beats and noise, drops swiftly into a riff topped with squalling guitar before settling to a more familiar metal chug as the caustic vocals come in. When it hits the chorus, everything eases back, Dan Meyer singing softly over strummed chords and busy but muffled percussion. The great joy of Agriculture’s music is the way they make these abrupt shifts flow naturally. On their second album they broaden…

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As “device agnostic” trio Haptic prepare to tour the UK, they speak to Claire Biddles about collaboration and finding unusual sounds in everyday objects

Founded in Chicago in 2005, experimentalists Haptic are preparing to play a series of five concerts in the UK to mark their twentieth anniversary. Each night, the trio will perform Late Work, a modular composition characterised as “confident and mournful”, akin to a contemporary requiem. “We wanted to set up a situation where all of the gestures made are confident decisions,” explains Adam Sonderberg of the work’s graphic score, influenced by John Cage’s late work, which serves to organise the players’ improvisations. “We’re dealing in a moment of great upheaval, and this is an opportunity for there to…

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Catch up with everything we’ve been writing about this past month PLUS! The bonus playlists for Subscriber Plus members

It’s a big month in our round-up playlist, with just a wafer-thin slice off five hours of everything we’ve been covering in September 2025. For those who support us by being members of the Subscriber Plus tier, we’ve just finished the first weeks of the new subscriber perks in which we’re sending out essential listening compilations of artists we’ve covered in key features. The first run was from Saint Etienne, Daveed Diggs of Clipping, Agriculture, the Tony Hawk Pro Skater soundtracks, late period Sonic Youth and Raven Chacon. These can all be found here, along with the bonus archive of Baker’s Dozen, A Quietus Interview…

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