Hinds died in Atlanta on Wednesday after a collision while riding his motorcycle

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Brent Hinds, former guitarist of Atlanta metal band Mastodon has died, aged 51.

In a statement, Mastodon said:

“We are in a state of unfathomable sadness and grief… last night Brent Hinds passed away as a result of a tragic accident. We are heartbroken, shocked, and still trying to process the loss of this creative force with whom we’ve shared so many triumphs, milestones, and the creation of music that has touched the hearts of so many. Our hearts are with Brent’s family, friends, and fans. At this time, we please ask that you respect everyone’s privacy during this difficult time.”

According to local news reports, Hinds…

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JR Moores addresses the painful rise of AI psych rock before getting his lugholes around some manmade releases

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AI can write psych rock albums for us! This news will come as a relief to King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard who won’t need to make a brand new album each month anymore. Now, machines can do it for them. This will free up their time and energy, allowing the band to focus on the activities they wished they’d been doing this whole time instead: data entry, vacuuming the hallway and caring for sickly wallabies.

Eagle-eared listeners already had their suspicions about a mysterious band with an unfeasibly high number of Spotify streams when the act’s creator, under the pseudonym Andrew Frelon,…

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When Marie Le Conte moved from Nantes to London she rejected her French identity, along with a teenage infatuation with Phoenix’ fourth album. Years later, she reflects on how the “youth and hope and enthusiasm bottled inside ten neat and clean little songs” actually allows her to have a conversation with her past self about life, love and becoming.

The video no longer exists but, if it did, you could click play right around now and find yourself transported to the living room of a provincial French home. You’d hear the first few notes of the song straight away, and they would probably remind you of a jaunty alarm clock. Soon, though, the music would become impossible to hear over the…

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At once a suite of love songs and a call to arms, the new album from Baltimore’s Marcus Brown is an electronic pop record grounded in hard graft, workers’ solidarity and deep ties of affection

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The big iridescent heart on the cover of last year’s Fontaines DC album, titled Romance. The even bigger papier mache heart on the cover of ‘Grandiose Love’, the recent single from Zoee. Jarvis Cocker reminding us that we’ve “got to have love” on this year’s new Pulp album, titled More. The unabashed pop of Chappell Roan and Sabrina Carpenter. And the title of the new album from Baltimore’s Marcus Brown, aka Nourished By Time: The Passionate Ones. Love – or at least some…

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Meitei

Sen’nyū

An album of ambient music composed of flutes, drones and field recordings, inspired by Japanese onsen culture – best listened to while lazing in the bath

Sen'nyū / 泉涌 by Meitei / 冥丁

In the liner notes for his seminal album Music For Airports, Brian Eno wrote that ambient music “must be as ignorable as it is interesting.” Before him, French composer Erik Satie, whose musique d’ameublement (‘furniture music’) prefigured ambient, reportedly used to get angry when his compositions drew too much attention. Ambient music, then, has long occupied a strange space. It should reward deep listening without demanding it; operate with presence, but not insistence.

This is a paradox that sits at the heart of Sen’nyū, the latest effort from Japanese ambient bodach…

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Short clip emerges on YouTube

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The reunion of Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson for a series of dates through the autumn of 2025 is one of the musical stories of the year, so we got the shivers to say the least when a pal sent over a YouTube video of rehearsals at London’s infamously synth-packed Memetune Studios. The short clip features Mallinder on bass and Watson on organ, joined by Eric Random on guitar and Benge on drums. You can watch it below. Cabaret Voltaire kick off their reunion at Sheffield’s FORGE Warehouse on 25 October, before a run of already sold out dates around the country, with some tickets still remaining for the Roundhouse in London on 22…

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The track marks her first new material following her signing to XL Recordings

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Chicago-born, New York-based artist keiyaA has shared a new song, ‘stupid prizes’.

Marking her first solo release since 2020 debut album Forever, Ya Girl, the new cut follows her signing to XL Recordings and comes with a video directed by keiyaA together with filmmaker Caity Arthur. You can watch the visual below.

Speaking about the new track, keiyaA said: “I wrote, recorded and produced ‘stupid prizes’ all in one sitting, at home late at night in my living room in Brooklyn. I sampled Percy Faith, an orchestral composer known for creating rich and luscious scores and show tunes, helping contribute to this classic ‘American’ sound.

“I sought to…

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The updated edition of the 1984 record comes with added live tracks, outtakes,and alternate versions

The Replacements are reissuing 1984 album Let It Be.

Set to be made available in 4xLP and 3xCD sets, as well as on streaming services, the updated edition of the record will feature previously unheard bonus material from the original album sessions, such as alternate versions of ‘Gary’s Got A Boner’, ‘Favourite Thing’ and ‘Androgynous’. Unreleased outtakes ‘Who’s Gonna Take Us Alive’ and ‘Street Girl’ are also included.

Rounding out the set are five bonus tracks previously included in a 2008 reissue of Let It Be, which have all been newly remastered, as well as a live album called Goodnight! Go Home!, comprising 28 songs recorded in August 1984 at…

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The Ghanaian artist will release new album Batakari via Awesome Tapes From Africa this November

Ghanaian highlife artist Ata Kak is to release his first new album since his 1994 record, Obaa Sima.

Due out in November, Batakari features six tracks that the musician recorded in studios around his native Kumasi over the past few years. It will be released through Awesome Tapes From Africa.

Obaa Sima is Kak’s sole solo full-length release to date, and was self-released to little fanfare in 1994. Only 50 copies of the album were made, of which 3 were sold. The LP came to wider attention after Awesome Tapes From Africa founder Brian Shimkovitz came across the record via a vendor in Cape Coast, Ghana in 2002. He…

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‘Zona’ taken from forthcoming Downwards album is on tQ today

Microcorps photo by Agnes Haus

We’ve been fans of Alexander Tucker’s music throughout tQ’s history, in his early solo work, via Grumbling Fur, collaborations with Charlemagne Palestine and Nik Void, and in recent years his rugged dancefloor-ready modular project Microcorps. Clear Vortex Chamber, the second album from this heavy adventure, comes out via Downwards this autumn, and features collaborators including Justin Broadrick, Karl D’Silva and Elvin Brandhi, with Tucker roping in label boss Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor for shouty vocal duties on metallic and prangy new track ‘Zona’. (The Agnes Haus-directed video for this can be watched below).

“With Microcorps I wanted to focus on processing voices, using granular synthesis to stretch…

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