Panopticon

Laurentian Blue / Songs of Hiraeth

Austin Lunn splits the folk and metal sides of his project into twin albums – with mixed results

Laurentian Blue by Panopticon

Songs Of Hiraeth by Panopticon

Since 2007, Austin Lunn’s much-praised atmospheric black metal project Panopticon has plied its trade in searing meditations on everything from environmentalism, to the Appalachian coal mining industry and Native American oppression. Successfully realising a unique blend of folk, bluegrass, country and black metal, 2012 to 2015 saw Panopticon release a hat-trick of stellar albums in the form of Kentucky, Roads to the North and Autumn Eternal. These well-rendered conceptual statements brought the project high critical acclaim outside the black metal underground.

This year sees Lunn disentangling the folk and black metal elements of…

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Originally released in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, and centred on the story of real Japanese women who suffered radiation poisoning through their factory work, this newly-reissued collaboration should invite deep reflection when played today, says Jennifer Lucy Allan

I do not want to survive a nuclear disaster. I saw Threads at university like everyone else, but was already haunted by a YA novel I read as a young teen, about three siblings who lived through a nuclear bomb, which I now realise must have taken from real reporting in John Hersey’s Hiroshima. Age 13, the raw horror of the images it described were burned into me, prompting a nauseating terror at the mere mention of radiation poisoning: the fleshy…

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The publication has also shared new mixes by DJ Sprinkles, Helena Hauff and Theo Parrish, among others

Resident Advisor has shared a selection of new or previously unheard archive mixes by a selection of big names from across the electronic music world for the 1000th instalment of its podcast series.

Consisting of 10 mixes, the unveiling of the 1000th instalment of the podcast was rounded off today (August 14) having been spread out across this week. The final two mixes shared by the publication were a lengthy club recording from now-closed venue Trouw in Amsterdam, featuring the only ever back-to-back set between Andrew Weatherall and DJ Harvey; and two separate unheard recordings from the late Frankie Knuckles’ personal archives, dating back to…

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“I have traveled the world and have made millions upon millions of fans and the hardest part of all of this is saying goodbye to them,” frontman Dave Mustaine said in a statement

Megadeth are set to split sometime in the next couple of years following the release of a new album and the completion of a farewell tour.

Full details of the album and tour have not yet been revealed, though the band did share the record’s artwork, which you can see below. You can also find a video trailer for the band’s finale plans below.

In a statement, the band’s frontman, Dave Mustaine, said: “There’s so many musicians that have come to the end of their career, whether accidental or intentional….

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The festival will also host the premiere of a new joint live show between Loraine James, Kelman Duran and Puce Mary

Unsound has revealed a second wave of acts playing its 2025 edition later this year.

Among the newly announced acts playing live at the festival are Brìghde Chaimbeul, Abdullah Miniawy, Nick León, Purelink and The Bug, who will perform with vocalist Warrior Queen.

Kara-Lis Coverdale is also set to play live alongside Sinfonietta Cracovia. The orchestra will also join The Providenza Ensemble – a new joint project of Loraine James, Kelman Duran and Puce Mary – for their performance at the event.

Introspekt, Bclip and a back-to-back between DJ Lag and Slikback are among the additions to the festival’s DJ programme for 2025.

They…

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It features live recordings of tracks from the record captured between 2003 and 2009

Radiohead have surprise released a new live album centred around their 2003 LP Hail To The Thief.

Spanning 12 tracks, Hail To The Thief (Live Recordings 2003-2009) collects live renditions of tracks from the original album captured during shows in London, Amsterdam, Buenos Aires and Dublin. It documents the band’s progression from putting the record out through to finishing the touring of their subsequent LP, 2008’s In Rainbows.

The live recordings featured have been newly mixed and mastered by Ben Baptie and Matt Colton respectively, and a physical release is set to follow on October 31.

In a statement outlining how the live album came about, Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke said:…

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Depeche Mode: M was captured over the course of the band’s three 2023 shows at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros

Photo by Toni François

Depeche Mode’s new concert film, Depeche Mode: M, is coming to cinemas this October.

Having got its premiere at New York’s Tribeca Film Festival in June, the film will now get a wider release in over 2,500 cinemas across 60 countries from October 28. It follows the band over the course of three 2023 shows at Mexico City’s Estadio GNP Seguros, during their tour in support of 2023 album Memento Mori, and is said to explore Mexican culture’s relationship with death.

In a statement, the band said: “At its core, our new film, M, is about the deep connection between…

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The four-day run will take in live performances, film screenings and an exhibition featuring art and other ephemera from the techno legend’s personal collection

Jeff Mills will present a residency, Star Chronicle, at Detroit’s Spot Lite venue next month.

Running from September 10 to 13 and organised in collaboration with Paxahau, the residency comprises live performances, talks, film screenings and a public exhibition curated by Mills himself, featuring pieces of art and other ephemera from the Detroit techno legend’s personal collection.

Each night at the venue, Mills will be joined for talks and performances by collaborators from his quarterly magazine Escape Velocity, such as Terrence Dixon, Optic Nerve and Developer.

There will also be screenings of two of his films: 2018’s PLANETS by Dairakudakan…

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Ahead of this year’s Supersonic, we catch up with founder Lisa Meyer to discuss the intensifying challenges facing independent festivals like hers, the picks from a brilliant lineup they’ve put together in spite of them, and more

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In the few days between tQ’s interview with Lisa Meyer, artistic director and founder of Supersonic, and its publication, news breaks that just a few weeks out from this year’s edition, the Digbeth festival were told that due to property developers, they would no longer be able to use the space that has long served as their marketplace and food court. At the last minute, they were forced to pivot, finding an entirely new hub for their event at the nearby…

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In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Stewart Smith explains how microtonal jazz can help dissolve Western preconceptions of how music is constructed and understood

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A portal to new sonic realms, microtonality is one of the most potent tools in contemporary music making. By exploring intervals beyond the 12-note scale of Equal Temperament, microtonal music challenges normative Western ideas of beauty and “correctness”. It can be used to push already extreme music off the map, as in Jute Gyte’s crushing black metal, or to create the otherworldly colours of Jules’ Reidy’s Ghost/Spirit. It’s the umami in Horse Lords’ math-rock and it’s threaded through new classical music.

 Microtonality is popping off in jazz too. Of course, jazz has always been…

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