The Canadian artist made the track in collaboration with Pearson Sound

Photo by Winston H. Case

Jessy Lanza has released a new single through Hyperdub, ‘Slapped By My Life’.

Out now, the track marks the first new music from the Canadian artist since the release of her 2023 album Love Hallucination. It’s described in a press release as “a bittersweet love letter to Jessy’s husband and frequent collaborator Winston H. Case”, and comes with co-production from Pearson Sound.

In a statement, Lanza said: “I wrote ‘Slapped By My Life’ while my husband Winston was going through chemotherapy. The treatment cycle was relentless and he spent most of the time bedridden, so while he slept I wrote this song for him. It’s been challenging to…

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Unreleased Works 94′ – 97 takes in eight unreleased cuts by the late Japanese artist

A new album of unreleased tracks by the late Japanese producer Susumu Yokota is set for release later this month.

Spanning eight tracks, Unreleased Works 94′ – 97 takes in ambient, techno and acid tracks that the artist worked on during the titular period. German label Transmigration is overseeing the release, having recovered the tracks from a collection of DAT tapes that Yokota’s Mantaray collaborator Ray Castle passed on. Every track featured has been restored and remastered.

Listen to lead track ‘Dust’ below.

Yokota released more than 30 albums across his career, mainly during the period of 1993 to 2012. He died aged 54 in 2015 following an illness.

Last…

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The new release will additionally take in the band’s full headline set at Glastonbury in 1995

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Pulp’s fifth album, Different Class, is being reissued to mark its 30th anniversary.

The album will newly be available as both a 4xLP set and on 2xCD format, and has been expanded to add their 1995 Glastonbury festival set in full. It will be the first time that the Glastonbury performance has been released. Both physical formats of the reissue will come with a 28-page booklet featuring a newly commissioned essay based on new interviews with the band, plus previously unseen images from photographers Rankin and Donald Milne.

In a statement, frontman Jarvis Cocker said: “This 45rpm double album version of Different Class will make it sound a whole…

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The Italian duo are following up their debut LP 13 years on from its release

Voices From The Lake, the duo of Donato Dozzy and Neel, are set to release their second album, the aptly titled II.

Coming 13 years on from their classic debut record, the 11-track new album “marks a new and second chapter” for the pair, according to a press release. “The project was never meant to become what it did,” they said in a statement, reflecting on the numerous live shows that have followed since they put out their debut. “At one point, we even paused it. Only to later embrace it in all its forms. II is both a continuation and a reinvention.”

To celebrate the new album,…

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The 20-date run of shows will take them to London, Madrid, Copenhagen, Bologna and Berlin

Radiohead have announced their first tour in seven years.

The 20-date run of shows will see them play four shows each in five European cities across November and December. The tour kicks off at Madrid’s Movistar Arena for gigs on November 4, 5, 7 and 8, followed by four nights at Bologna’s Unipol Arena on November 14, 15, 17 and 18.

From there, they head to The O2 in London to play on November 21, 22, 24 and 25, followed by four nights at Copenhagen’s Royal Arena on December 1, 2, 4 and 5. The tour comes to a close at Berlin’s Uber Arena on December 8, 9,…

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Kez Whelan reflects on the passing of Ozzy Osbourne and Mastodon’s Brent Hinds, and reviews crucial new heavy releases from Human Leather, Endless Swarm, Kayo Dot and more

Human Leather, photo by Al Bailey

Damn, I miss Ozzy. I’ve been blasting even more Sabbath than I usually do over the last month or so, and thinking a lot about just how profound an influence those early records had not just on the world of music, but also my life, acting as a roadmap for my formative years and helping me traverse youth’s rocky landscape with strength, conviction and passion. 

Of course, trying to explain why Ozzy was important in a metal column is sort of like a fashion magazine extolling the virtues of…

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As Universal release an expensive box set celebrating John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s “political activism”, Samuel Cox argues that it cheapens the legacy of more impactful, radical figures

It was 1972, and J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI had decided that the longer John Lennon remained in the United States, the greater the likelihood that civil society itself would collapse into anarchy. Unfounded suspicions that Lennon planned to disrupt that November’s presidential election were passed to Hoover by CIA director Richard Helms, and a taskforce was put in place to bring Lennon down. While the INS worked to deport Lennon, Hoover’s men placed the apartment of Lennon and his wife, collaborator and conspirator Yoko Ono under surveillance, in addition to tailing their…

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Gwenifer Raymond

Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

With her finger-picked acoustic guitar, the Welsh-born artist plays hymns to dusty landscapes and oddball outsiders

Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark by Gwenifer Raymond

In 1952 the chemist and rocket engineer Jack Parsons died from wounds that he sustained during an accidental explosion whilst working in his home laboratory on explosives for a film set. Upon hearing the news of her son’s death, Ruth Parsons promptly took a fatal overdose of barbiturates.

An occultist and associate of both Aleister Crowley and L. Ron Hubbard, Parsons’ story has been memorialised in song by the likes of Six Organs of Admittance, Jóhann Jóhannsson, The Claypool Lennon Delirium, and Luke Haines with Peter Buck. Now…

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The six-track reissue is out in October

A rare 1994 album by Squarepusher is being reissued by Warp Records.

Stereotype is the earliest known full-length release by the IDM artist, real name Tom Jenkinson, and was made and originally put out while he was operating under the pseudonym from which the album took its name. In contrast to the rhythmically complex music that followed it in his discography, Stereotype’s six tracks are influenced by dance floor-ready music heard on pirate radio and at raves.

The reissue marks the first time that the album has been made available on CD and digitally, while the vinyl release has been cut as a 2xLP – the original vinyl edition crammed almost an hour of music onto…

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Ata Kak, Devendra Banhart and Smerz are among the final additions to the bill

Le Guess Who? has shared the full music programme for its 2025 edition, taking place this November.

The Utrecht festival will newly take in sets from the likes of Ata Kak, Devendra Banhart, Smerz, Hania Rani (performing as her alter-ego Chilling Bambino), MAHA, Skanda Jaïbi and Maria Alice. Italian musician Daniela Pes will also perform together with composer and producer IOSONOUNCANE, with the pair presenting a brand new collaborative live show.

It’s also been revealed that each day at this year’s event will take in a surprise unannounced performance on one of the main stages, with the artists playing those sets being kept under wraps until they perform.

Brazilian…

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