Earl Sweatshirt 

Live Laugh Love

The ex-Odd Future member grows up, still just as intense as ever

Earl Sweatshirt, in recent years, has come to occupy a space not unlike that of Elliott Smith. If it’s fair to anoint Smith the “patron saint of sad boys,” as a piece by Darran Anderson in tQ earlier this year so aptly did, it’s helpful to think of the ex-Odd Future member (AKA Thebe Kgositsile) as a reluctant prophet for the wounded and weary – an irreverent yet deeply perceptive oracle who continues to capture a generation of chronically online depressives with his grim clarity. 

Like Smith, evangelists are drawn to Sweatshirt for the unadulterated intimacy present in his music. ‘Solace’ (a companion piece to the rapper’s…

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Sunik Kim

Formenverwandler

The writer, filmmaker and musician explores time and memory on an album of music that sounds ferocious, ecstatic, and at points playfully absurd

Formenverwandler by Sunik Kim

Every Monday my mobile phone delivers a snide judgment on how much time I spend looking at its screen. It tallies the hours, but it’s all quantity and no quality. It doesn’t grasp when time dragged and when it slipped by, when hours were donated to the attention economy versus when I stole them from my day job. Close to a century ago Virginia Woolf captured duration and sensation in flux in her 1928 novel Orlando in a line Sunik Kim quotes in an essay accompanying her new album, Formenverwandler: “An hour, once it…

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The #rechtopdenacht campaign, or “right to the night” sees clubs like Garage Noord and Radio Radio unite to “demand a safe night for all our visitors”

A number of Amsterdam clubs have formed a collective night-time safety campaign after a 17-year-old girl was murdered on the way home from a night out in the city’s Leidseplein district.

The victim, whose family has requested media identify only as “Lisa”, was stabbed to death while cycling home in the early morning hours of Wednesday, August 20, as NL Times reports. Prior to the attack, she had called police to report that someone was following her. A 22-year-old man is currently in police custody on suspicion of her murder. Authorities have not publicly released his…

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It follows previous memoirs by fellow former bandmates Morrissey and Johnny Marr

The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce is publishing an autobiography.

The Drums, according to a synopsis, offers a first-hand view of the band’s history, as told by “the self-confessed biggest Smiths fan in the world”. It continues: “His off-piste, frank and witty perspective allows him to re-contextualise fan favourite moments through a beautifully vulnerable, human insight into his life.”

Joyce becomes the third member of The Smiths to publish a memoir, following Morrissey’s 2013 book Autobiography and Johnny Marr’s Set The Boy Free from 2016.

New Modern will publish The Drums on November 6, 2025.
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The newly remastered edition includes alternate takes of album tracks and more

Patti Smith’s classic 1975 debut album, Horses, is being reissued to mark its 50th anniversary.

The newly remastered edition will come in 2xLP and 2xCD formats, and will also be made available digitally. It includes alternate takes of album tracks, Smith’s original 1975 audition tape for RCA, and four previously unreleased songs: ‘Distant Fingers’, ‘The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game’, ‘We Three’ and ‘Snowball’. You can listen to the latter song below.

Smith is also set to publish the memoir Bread Of Angels on November 4, and will soon head out on an autumn tour of the UK, Europe and the US, during which she will perform Horses in full.

Legacy Recordings will release Horses…

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It’s the two artists’ third album together of 2025

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are releasing another collaborative album together, titled Liminal.

Spanning 11 tracks, the new record follows the duo’s previous two joint albums, Lateral and Luminal, which were released earlier this year. You can listen to lead tracks ‘The Last To Know’ and ‘Ringing Ocean’ below.

In a joint statement, Eno and Wolfe said: “Liminal stands at the point of convergence between Lateral and Luminal. If Lateral is a kind of landscape painting, a sonic place, Luminal is a dream-like awakening, a feeling space. Liminal, the newest addition, is a hybrid of the two, a strange new land with a human living and feeling its way through its mysterious spaces.

“Liminal is set in the borderlands between song and non-song (or ‘nong’…

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She’s also shared lead track ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’

Klein has a new mixtape on the way.

Titled Sleep With A Cane, it features 14 tracks, one of which is a collaboration with Space Afrika. It’s Klein’s second full-length release of 2025, following February’s Thirteen Sense.

Ahead of the full release, the UK artist has shared lead track ‘Rich Dad Poor Dad’, which closes the mixtape, alongside a self-directed visual for the song. You can watch it below.

Roc Nation Distribution will release Sleep With A Cane on October 1, 2025.

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The band made the new songs while working on a new album

Photo by Michelle Shiers

Spoon have released a new double A-side single, made up of the tracks ‘Chateau Blues’ and ‘Guess I’m Fallin In Love’.

Both tracks were written and recorded amid the band’s recording sessions for a forthcoming new album. In a statement, frontman Britt Daniel said: “As we finished up the first two songs for the LP, it crossed somebody’s mind and eventually all of ours that these two really should come out now.”

He continued: “Two new tunes with distinct personalities that were summoned into the world the past few months in Austin, Texas, and Providence, Rhode Island. It’s a big day all around: Tonight we kick off our…

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The 4xLP 1985: The Miracle Year is set for release in November

A collection of live recordings dating back to 1985 by Hüsker Dü will form the focus of a new box set being released by Numero Group.

The 4xLP 1985: The Miracle Year is chiefly centred around the recording of a full live set from January 30, 1985. The recording from a gig at Minneapolis venue First Avenue has been restored especially for the release by Beau Sorenson. Also included in the package are 20 more live tracks from the same year, as well as a deluxe booklet outlining the year of work that went into the band’s 1985 tour.

The recordings capture the Minneapolis punk band amid one of their peak…

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The three EPs that make up the 1993 release have been newly remastered

Seefeel’s 1993 EPs collection Pure, Impure is to be reissued.

Expanding the release’s original six tracks to include 11 cuts, the updated release of Pure, Impure also takes in the four tracks that appeared on the EP More Like Space, and a previously unreleased demo of the song ‘Moodswing’. All of the tracks featured have been remastered by Geoff Pesche at Abbey Road Studios, while the release also comes with newly reimagined artwork.

The reissue of Pure, Impure follows the release of the mini-album Squared Roots last December.

Too Pure will release Pure, Impure (Expanded EPs Edition) on October 17, 2025.
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