The artist, curator and musician was given an immediate one in four chance of survival after suffering a bilateral pulmonary embolism and heart attack in 2021. Here are the important lessons she learned in recuperation

LIFE DAY by Kristen Gallerneaux

Kristen Gallerneaux is – take a deep breath! – the Curator of Communication and Information Technology and the Editor-in-Chief of Digital Curation at the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan. But that is ‘only’ the day job. They are also an author their inimitable and brilliant book High Static, Dead Lines: Sonic Spectres & the Object Hereafter was published by Strange Attractor in 2018 – a literary mixtape covering everything from a fax machine used to decode the language of hurricanes to the…

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Hayley Scott looks back to the extended play – or the album if that’s the way you see it – which really got things rolling when it came to what The Fall were about

What is there left to say about The Fall? Even as a life-long fan and critic, it’s often impossible not to yield the usual tropes: references to Wyndham Lewis, Arthur Machen, the phrase repetition, repetition, repetition, and a threadbare observation of Mark E. Smith’s surly temperament. As with most clichés, there is some truth buried within them. In a post-truth, neo-liberal landscape, excavating the familiar can actually be a source of comfort. In a world where information is bias and inflammatory, having these firm foundations of criticisms…

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The ex-Sonic Youth Now Jazz Now free-rocker and the formerly mononymic Shockabilly, B.A.L.L., auxiliary Butthole Surfing bass mangler pose one another questions about their art and practice

Music writers. Who needs ’em? We recently had the opportunity to get Sonic Youth rocker, improviser, publisher Thurston Moore and B.A.L.L. rocker, producer, honcho Bonner Kramer together, so we left them to interview one another with no interference from us.

Thurston Moore was radicalised by punk rock’s first transmissions to move to NYC and make a racket, playing, notably, in The Coachmen, Swans, one of Glenn Branca’s Guitar Orchestras as well as being a founding member of Sonic Youth. As well as three decades of no-wave, psychedelic, transcendent, punk rock goodness, Moore has also had…

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Irmin Schmidt

Requiem

Can man’s new jam leans classical, garnished with croaking frogs and prepared piano

Requiem by Irmin Schmidt

Irmin Schmidt turns 89 next month. He’s the last surviving founding member of the quasi-deified experimental rock outfit Can. It’s therefore little surprise that Requiem is a kind of threnody for both Schmidt’s own career, and for the collaborators he’s outlived.

It’s an album that leaves plenty of blank space for the listener’s imagination to flow into. Some of the sounds evoke the churning of hospital respirators, at other moments like a faulty grandfather clock. At times the record sounds like how I can only imagine purgatory might feel. In my mind, I was on a camping holiday with Schmidt, Stockhausen and Cage. None of…

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Sets from the stage will be live-streamed online across the weekend

Dekmantel has completed the lineup for its 2026 edition with the unveiling of the programming for its RADAR stage.

Sets from the stage will be live-streamed online across the weekend, with the first day’s lineup taking in sets from the likes of Objekt, Juan Atkins and Skrillex. The following day, Ben UFO, CCL, Colin Benders and Polygonia, among others, will play at RADAR, while the weekend will be rounded off with a final day featuring sets from Mala, Sampha, Octo Octa, Verraco and more.

They all join the previously announced likes of aya, Underground Resistance, Dopplereffekt, Ricardo Villalobos, Nídia, Batu, Tikiman, Olof Dreijer, Steffi, SHERELLE, Kode9 and lots more on the lineup…

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Derek Walmsley revels in a late-period concert document that addresses and answers the age old issues about live electronic music

Nag Nag Nag (Live 2025 Single Edit) by Cabaret Voltaire

When they were young, members of Cabaret Voltaire used to walk up to strangers at bus stops in Sheffield and spray them with sounds from reel-to-reel tape recorders. They wanted to liven up everyday life in a Northern industrial town, and observe what would happened when people were jolted out of familiar habits. This pranksterism sticks in the memory, not just because it speaks to the DIY graft that’s part of Cabs’ origin story, but because spending hours splicing sounds onto tape and then blasting them out for a few seconds touches…

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Quiet Light

Blue Angel Sparkling Silver Angel 2

From Texas, Riya Mahesh moves from impressionistic vignettes to pop precision on her True Panther debut

Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 by Quiet Light

Quiet Light’s music is best listened to during the in-between parts of life, where change is most felt. Fittingly, her mixtape Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2 throws the listener into the middle of this moving sound, with ‘Star100’ beginning like a half-heard conversation. Layering delicate harmonies, gliding synths and soft drum patterns, the song spirals through accelerated changes in tempo and pitch until reaching a climax, after which details melt away to leave the bare essentials, concluding with a sampled conversation asking why no one’s midlife crisis ever involves Bagel Bites.

The opening…

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Encompassing eight pieces, the record was produced to accompany the eponymous ballet

Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter is releasing a solo album, Mirage – Ballet For 16 Dancers.

Spanning eight pieces, the music featured on the album was produced for the eponymous ballet conceived by choreographer Damien Jalet and contemporary artist Kōhei Nawa, which premiered at the Grand Théâtre de Genève last May.

The first extract from the album, ‘Mirage: Part II’, will be released digitally tomorrow. For now, you can watch a brief video trailer for the record below.

Mirage – Ballet For 16 Dancers follows on from a number of solo releases by Bangalter in recent years, following the end of Daft Punk. In 2024, he released the soundtrack album CHIROPTERA MATIERE PREMIERE,…

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It’s his first full-length release under the name for six years

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Tricky has shared details of a new album, titled Different When It’s Silent.

It’s the UK artist’s 15th studio LP, and marks his first full-length release under the moniker for six years. The 15-track album was recorded between France and his home base of Bristol, and takes in elements of hip hop, guitar and electronic music. Mitch Sanders, Marta Złakowska and Run Red Rambo all appear on the record as guests.

Listen to the Marta Złakowska-featuring ‘Out Of Place’ below.

False Idols will release Different When It’s Silent on 17 July 2026.

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More than 1,000 artists have signed a letter criticising the contest for its decision to allow Israel to compete

No Music For Genocide, the campaign that has seen hundreds of artists geo-block their music from streaming platforms in Israel, has now turned its attention to the Eurovision Song Contest.

In an open letter, a number of artists have called for a boycott of the competition due to its decision to allow Israel to compete. The letter has been signed by the likes of Brian Eno, Massive Attack, Mogwai, Primal Scream, Dry Cleaning, Erika de Casier, Smerz, Sigur Rós, Hot Chip, Roger Waters, Nadine Shah, Olof Dreijer and Black Country, New Road, among hundreds of other acts.

The letter reads: “This May, millions of…

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