Ethel Cain

Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Love You Forever

Combining the dream pop Americana of Preacher’s Daughter with the drones and experiments of Perverts, the Florida-born singer-songwriter-producer may just have come up with her most realised project to date, finds Cal Cashin

Illinois slowcore band Good Night & Good Morning were criminally underrated during their original lifespan. Their one full length LP Narrowing Type, an enveloping mix of hibernal slowcore, ambient guitar squall and twinkling vibraphone, was released in 2011 without much fanfare – completely at odds with the neon shimmer of the mainstream indie music of the period – and the group burnt out, vanished, disappeared without as much as a goodbye.

However, in the decade following Narrowing Type’s release, it has grown in…

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The news was confirmed via a death certificate that the late Black Sabbath singer’s daughter Aimee submitted in London

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Ozzy Osbourne died as a result of a heart attack, it has been revealed.

The Black Sabbath frontman died on July 22 at the age of 76, and a death certificate submitted in London by his daughter Aimee has now revealed the cause of death, as The New York Times reports. The certificate also confirmed that Osbourne had been living with both coronary artery disease and Parkinson’s – he first publicly revealed the latter diagnosis in 2020.

Osbourne died just weeks after what was billed as his final concert at Villa Park in Birmingham, where Sabbath and Ozzy solo were joined by…

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The London day festival’s trio of afterparties will take place across Venue MOT, Ormside Projects and Avalon Cafe

London festival RALLY has announced three afterparties, kicking off nearby when the daytime event finishes.

Scheduled for August 23, the parties will take place at Venue MOT, Ormside Projects and Avalon Cafe, close to RALLY’s daytime home of Southwark Park. The Venue MOT event will feature sets from Pariah back-to-back with a special guest; FAUZIA; RHR; and more.

At Ormside Projects, Valentina Magaletti, Al Wootton, Nosedrip and Katie Shannon are on the bill, while New York-based rapper MIKE will DJ at the Avalon Cafe event.

RALLY takes place on August 23, with the likes of Floating Points, Moin, Astrid Sonne, MIKE, Ben UFO and Geordie…

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The new box set release will take in previously unheard music made for the trilogy of films

John Carpenter (middle) with Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, photo by Sophie Gransard

John Carpenter’s soundtracks for the recent trilogy of Halloween film reboots are to be reissued in expanded form.

Produced alongside his collaborators Cody Carpenter and Daniel Davies, the soundtracks for 2018’s Halloween, 2021’s Halloween Kills, and 2022’s Halloween Ends marked Carpenter’s return to scoring films after nearly two decades away. The expanded version of Halloween Kills features 25 unreleased music cues, while Halloween Ends adds 10 new tracks.

The reissues will take in bonus material left off the original soundtrack release, with a deluxe box set collecting the definitive editions of all three scores and standalone versions of the expanded soundtracks all set…

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The band will now play a further matinee show at the Barbican after their original festival appearance sold out

EFG London Jazz Festival has added another raft of names to the lineup for its 2025 edition.

Leading the announcement is an additional matinee performance by Tortoise at the Barbican. Scheduled for the afternoon of November 22, the new show comes after the band’s evening performance at the same venue sold out.

The festival has also newly confirmed performances from British-Indian musician and composer Soumik Datta at Southbank Centre’s Purcell Room; Idrîsî Ensemble at Union Chapel; L’Antidote Trio playing their first UK show at Kings Place Hall 2; and drummer and composer Nate Smith at KOKO.

They join the previously announced likes of Nubya Garcia,…

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The Prague event returns next month

Lunchmeat Festival has added a second wave of acts to its 2025 lineup.

Taking place as ever across multiple venues in Prague, the festival’s 16th edition will newly take in the world premiere of a new audiovisual live show from Slikback, featuring visual accompaniment from Malt Disney and Tasya. It follows the recent release of his first album for Planet Mu, Attrition.

Rainy Miller is also set to present his latest project, Joseph, What Have You Done?, with an audiovisual live set, while Aho Ssan and Resina will additionally bring their joint Ego Death project to the festival.

Lunchmeat’s latest announcement is rounded out by audiovisual live sets from Violent Magic Orchestra, Palmistry and estoc, among others.

They join…

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Long before vocalist Rachel Brown began pursuing music, they dreamed of writing for the small screen. Ahead of releasing their disorientating, technicolour new album with Water From Your Eyes, they explain this lifelong passion to Alastair Shuttleworth

At 28 years old, Rachel Brown of New York duo Water From Your Eyes is part of the last generation to remember the days before on-demand television. Back then, you were stuck with whatever was broadcasting live – advertisements and all – and if you didn’t like it, you had to go on a frequently fruitless hunt: slavishly switching between channels, as in the video for the band’s single ‘Life Signs’. At 29 myself, I can attest to how deeply disorientating ‘channel hopping’ was:…

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Bitterviper

Bitterviper

Richly marbled drones, time-stretched post-rock, cello harmonics and ghostly synth on the debut collaborative album from David Grubbs, Sarah Hennies, Nikos Veliotis and Taku Unami

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Although David Grubbs has worked with all of the musicians who join him in Bitterviper, they’ve yet to all gather in a single place. Still, they all seem highly attuned to what one another does. The quartet’s eponymous debut was produced through file sharing, an accretive process set in motion by lush, often psychoacoustic solo cello lines and patterns played by the Athens-based Nikos Veliotis and subsequently layered with sounds by Grubbs, Japanese electronics master Taku Unami, and percussionist-composer Sarah Hennies. Across four gorgeously contemplative, deeply spacious pieces the ensemble achieves a stunning cohesion,…

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With his bruxaria sound, DJ K is working at the very limits of Brazilian funk. Eden Tizard dives into his latest album RADIO LIBERTADORA!, exploring the symbolic resonance of the colour purple, new sonic thresholds to adapt to, and a project of revolutionary witchcraft

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Once a rare dye that denoted nobility, hip hop had its own spin on the colour purple. From graffiti crowns to Ralph Lauren Polo, repurposing and remixing symbols of wealth is a fixture of hip hop culture. In part, this can be read as adopted status symbols, but there’s more to it than that. Take Polo shirts, worn oversized and paired with streetwear. This wasn’t just bourgeois WASP cosplay, more like a mark of…

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In this month’s podcast, John Doran and Luke Turner let their ears submit to the heftily roving riffs of Metallica’s 1991 colossus, a record that changed the trajectory of American mainstream rock

In 1991, an album was released that was to take the hedge-trimmers to the bouffant of hair metal, putting the skid marks in Axl Rose’s shorts; an album that became a monolith that endures to this day. This album is of course not Nirvana’s Nevermind, often credited as prompting a fundamental shift in mainstream American heavy guitar music, but Metallica’s riff-blasting phantasmagoria, their self-titled fifth long-player, known henceforth as their Black Album, the subject of the new edition of our Low Culture podcast. John shares his thoughts about the moving gig at Villa…

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