The legendary Brazilian artist’s music traversed jazz, samba, ambient and other forms

Hermeto Pascoal, the influential Brazilian composer, has died at the age of 89.

His death was announced via his Instagram page on Saturday (September 13). “At the very moment of his passing, his group was on stage, just as he would have wished: making sound and music,” the post read. “As he always taught us, let us not be ruled by sadness: listen to the wind, the birds, a glass of water, a waterfall – universal music keeps breathing.”

Pascoal was known as “The Sorcerer” and his idiosyncratic approach to music saw him traversing genres such as jazz, samba, ambient and forró.

Born in Lagoa da Canoa in 1936, Pascoal came…

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All profits from sales of the release will go to War Child

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Sleaford Mods have released a new song, ‘Megaton’.

Taking aim at cultural mediocrity, the release marks the UK duo’s first new material since 2023 album UK GRIM. All profits from sales of the release will go to War Child, as part of Sleaford Mods’ ongoing partnership with the charity.

In a statement about the new song, the duo’s Jason Williamson said: ““Megaton, No War No Death! We should be aligned with one another but instead we are crippled by social media and the resulting separatism: Genocide… swipe… gym bods… swipe… food pics… swipe… starvation. Killing upon killing, so much terrible, horrifying information followed by a cat meme followed by faces filtered beyond recognition.

“Such is…

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It’s the first release from the hip hop duo since Prodigy passed away in 2017

Mobb Deep are releasing a new album, Infinite.

Marking the first full-length release from the hip hop duo since 2014’s The Infamous Mobb Deep, it’s also the first record to emerge from the project since Prodigy, one-half of the group, died in 2017. Surviving member Havoc produced the 15-track album.

“This one feels like coming full circle,” Havoc said in a press statement. “It’s that classic Mobb energy – dark, real, unfiltered. The sound that shaped who we are but also speaks to where hip hop is right now.”

Listen to lead track ‘Against The World’ below.

Mass Appeal will release Infinite on October 10, 2025.

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The production house’s first feature film, GAME, stars Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson

Geoff Barrow, of Portishead and Beak>, has launched a new film company, Invada Films, and produced and co-written his first feature film, GAME.

Directed by longtime Barrow collaborator John Minton, the thriller stars Sleaford Mods’ Jason Williamson alongside Marc Bessant, and is set in the 1993 UK rave scene.

In a statement, Barrow said: “John (Minton) and I have worked together for over 20 years on music projects (Portishead and Invada music videos) and have always talked about making a feature together. The same goes for Marc (Bessant) who I’ve worked closely with for many years. I’ve been a fan of Jason Williamson’s work same with Rob (Williams), through 2000AD, and…

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The double A-side single’s release marks the start of the band’s tour of North and South America

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Stereolab have released a new double A-side single, featuring the tracks ‘Fed Up With Your Job’ and ‘Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown’.

The two songs are both available digitally, and have also been given a vinyl release, limited to 3,000 copies. The single arrives as the band head out on a tour of North and South America.

Listen to the new tracks below.

In May, Stereolab released their first album in 15 years, Instant Holograms On Metal Film.

Fed Up With Your Job / Constant And Uniform Movement Unknown is out now on Warp Records / Duophonic UHF Disks.

Fed Up With Your Job / Constant…

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The updated release will be available in 3xLP, 2xCD and box set formats, with added bonus material

Photo by Storm Thorgerson

Pink Floyd’s classic 1975 album Wish You Were Here is getting a 50th anniversary reissue.

The updated edition will be available in 3xLP and 2xCD formats featuring previously unreleased alternate mixes and demos. A box set will also include a fourth LP of live material recorded at Wembley Stadium and a Blu-ray that collects three concert films from Pink Floyd’s 1975 tour.

“In the 1970s, album covers were equally as important as the music, because the cover helped to sell the record,” Aubrey Powell, who co-designed Wish You Were Here cover alongside Storm Thorgerson, said in a statement. “Record stores would carry 10,000 different images…

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From gnome-inspired computer music to dancing incandescent lightbulbs, dungeon synth soundtracks for imagined RPGs and apocalyptic drum solos, Daryl Worthington dives into early-Autumn’s cassette releases

Tam Lin, photo by Pheobe Riley Law

If technology becomes media through imbrication in social relations, Tam Lin explores the human ramifications of that equation. In their music, social media is a visible actor in human experience, a trigger for anxiety, alienation and bolts of anger. Last year’s bluelightnospaceflattime was a mix of twitching soundscapes and spoken word, a diaristic exploration of the emotional rollercoaster of online life. New album Fizzy!, released by Jollies, takes the same theme into more song-based terrain, adding pounding beats and a more lyrical flow in their vocals. ‘World Of Appearances’ is…

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Marja Ahti

Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth

Developed at Stockholm’s EMS studios and first presented at the Seventh Edition Festival for Other Music in February 2024, the Swedish sound artist’s latest is filled with an expansive sense of exploration

Touch This Fragrant Surface Of Earth by Marja Ahti

Marja Ahti’s music rarely commands attention. Depending on the context in which it’s played, whether listening on speakers or headphones, during a time of day bustling with activity or in the dead of night, the Turku, Finland-based Swedish sound artist’s pieces may easily slip into the background and disappear completely beneath the threshold of perception. At the same time, her subtle electroacoustic strokes contain an invitation to listen deeply, leaving behind a trail of found…

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As Hounds Of Love turns 40, Toby Manning explores how Kate Bush suffused 80s pop with the pastoral and evoked both the allure and the terror of nature, allowing her to both capture the uncanny and make it commercial

Nostalgia, changing production values and Stranger Things have made Kate Bush’s ‘Running Up That Hill’ seem like just another 80s pop track. Yet back in 1985, despite its booming Linn drums and space-sucking synthesiser, the song seemed entirely unique, unbounded and unfettered. Far from representing corporate capitulation in an era of sonic conformism, Bush’s adoption of 80s production techniques just gave her new tools in her quest to expand pop’s parameters. ‘Running Up That Hill’ pleads for openness to the other in an…

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Rian Treanor and Cara Tolmie

Body Lapse

Rian Treanor teams up with sound poet and performer Cara Tolmie for an album that perfectly captures the chaos of modern living

Body Lapse by Rian Treanor & Cara Tolmie

Over the course of the past ten years, UK producer Rian Treanor has always kept his sound unpredictable and on the move. It would be easy to group him with the growing wave of heavily-online musicians blurring the lines between frenetic beat-based IDM and glitchy algorithmic experiments, but Treanor’s music doesn’t blur the lines as much as defy said lines entirely. Dense sound design is undeniably central to his work, but even at his most heady and cerebral Treanor never completely strays from his club background. In…

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