The track has been released as a B-side to last month’s single ‘Love On The Big Screen’

Animal Collective have shared a new song, titled ‘Buddies On The Blackboard’.

Out now, the track will appear as the B-side to last month’s single ‘Love On The Big Screen’ on a 7-inch vinyl record that will be released this Friday (August 1). Both new cuts were produced by Adam McDaniel and Animal Collective’s Avey Tare.

Listen to ‘Buddies On The Blackboard’ below.

‘Buddies On The Blackboard’ is out now on Domino.

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Chopper director Andrew Dominik releases new film

Today marks the fortieth anniversary of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds ‘Tupelo’, the opening track from second album The Firstborn Is Dead, and the band have marked it with a new video by Andrew Dominik, director of Chopper, The Assassination of Jesse James and One More Time With Feeling. The film interprets Nick Cave song about Elvis being born in the town of Tupelo as a Christ figure to save humanity from its sins, animating archival images of Elvis and natural disasters using AI. Nick Cave announced the video on his Red Hand Files newsletter, responding to the question “Is changing your mind about things a sign of weakness?” Sometimes, it feels that…

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Keith Rankin, aka Giant Claw, speaks to Natalie Marlin about leaning deep into pop music, carving it all up and assembling something completely unique on new album Decadent Stress Chamber

Photo by Ellen Thomas, visuals by Sabrina Ratte

We’re an hour into our call when Keith Rankin begins waxing poetic about the Chili’s Babyback Ribs jingle. “I’ve watched that so many times,” he says, beaming about the percussive acapella soundtrack. “Something about it – the effort – is just incredible.” As if sensing the ridiculousness of this sentiment, he gets overcome with laughter, before elaborating: “The commercialisation is stampeded by the musicians’ spirit. The flaming hot human spirit is blazing through this Chili’s commercial.”

We’ve arrived at this juncture, improbably, while talking about…

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Tidiani Kone et T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Tidiani Kone et T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

Welcome first re-release for a prized Benin-Mali collaboration

Tidiani Kone et le T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo by Tidiani Kone | T.P. Orchestre Poly-Rythmo

For all that we’re living through desperate times, it can be sobering to consider the challenges facing creative people in eras and places by no means unimaginably distant from our own. Take, for instance, the environment that existed in the west African country of Dahomey in the years following a revolution in October 1972. The Marxist government renamed it the People’s Republic of Benin in 1975, but were obviously more than somewhat concerned that enough of those People might at some point decide to try take the possession the new…

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Nadeem Din-Gabisi

Offshore

Big choruses and big energy elevate approaching themes of themes of Black identity, cultural displacement, and spiritual resilience with a refined sense of composition and arrangement, finds Mary Chiney

OFFSHORE by Nadeem Din-Gabisi

In an era where genre and form are becoming increasingly fluid, Nadeem Din-Gabisi is one uniquely creative artist. As a British-Sierra Leonean musician, poet, visual artist, and filmmaker, Din-Gabisi crafts immersive worlds that converge themes of Black identity, cultural displacement, and spiritual resilience. His work bridges sound and vision, creating a synesthetic language that resonates both emotionally and politically. In his second album Offshore, Nadeem channels his creativity to our ears with an intriguing delivery.

Kickstarting with ‘Intro’, Din-Gabisi crafts a brief yet compelling story, weaving cinematic strings and…

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Developers seeking to build new properties near existing venues will be told to soundproof buildings if the new laws are given the go-ahead

Music venues and pubs in England and Wales may benefit from fewer noise complaints under proposed changes to planning and licensing rules.

If passed, changes to law will force developers seeking to build new properties near existing venues to soundproof buildings. It’s also believed that plans for new businesses and al fresco dining in specific areas would be fast-tracked in an effort to boost the UK’s declining hospitality industry.

Labour said the changes would bring “vibrancy” to struggling towns, but the Conservatives have claimed that tax policy was responsible for “crippling the hospitality industry”.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Exchequer Secretary to…

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The 8xLP set features the full remastered record and a foreword by Laurie Anderson

Photo by Sean Stout

William Basinski’s seminal ambient work The Disintegration Loops is getting a deluxe reissue.

The Disintegration Loops (Arcadia Archive Edition) includes the entire five-hour collection that Basinski originally recorded while looping analogue tape as it deteriorated in the process. The original music has been remastered especially for its updated release, which will be made available in an 8xLP set and 4xCD edition.

All eight vinyl records will be housed in full-colour jackets featuring the restored original artwork. The deluxe reissue also includes a 1,000-word foreword written by Laurie Anderson.

In her forerword, Anderson writes: “These dissolving sounds, this emptying space, has gained my complete confidence. They are taking…

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The nine-track w/ The Producers is out next month

Paul St. Hilaire (left) and Kynant label founder Richard Akingbehin (right), photo by Vera Marmelo

Paul St. Hilaire, the dub techno vocalist otherwise known as Tikiman, is releasing a new album.

Spanning nine tracks, w/ The Producers sees the artist link up with a stacked cast of beatmakers that includes Batu, Mala, Shinichi Atobe, Gavsborg and Azu Tiwaline, among others. The record’s title is a play on Rhythm & Sound’s classic 2004 album w/ The Artists, on which St. Hilaire featured.

w/ The Producers follows the vocalist’s 2023 album Tikiman Vol. 1, and it will be released via the label Kynant Records, much like its predecessor. St. Hilaire and Kynant founder Richard Akingbehin – who…

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Once a year, a small German town mutates into a huge, baffling and refreshingly odd outdoor party. From asparagus to bus stops, Richard Foster gets to grips with the strange mythology of Haldern Pop

“But it looks so small…” Indeed it does. Shorn of its huge main stage and the paraphernalia needed to cater to five thousand festival goers each August, the field where Haldern Pop is staged is nothing more than what it is for the rest of the year, a riding field for the Association of Saint George. An icy March wind sweeps through the open fields and bites at our knuckles as we cycle back to Haldern.

Back in this ancient Niederrheinische village, the scene of heavy fighting in…

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50 years on, Joe Banks examines the point at which everything started to go wrong for Black Sabbath… even though they were still getting it right. This feature was originally published on 7/6/2015

At this point, we’re pretty much all agreed that Black Sabbath are one of our most important bands, up there with The Beatles and Kraftwerk in terms of their radical re-shaping of popular music’s sonic landscape. But it wasn’t always this way.

When I first began listening to Sabbath at the start of the 80s, their reputation was in the doldrums. For the ‘serious’ music press, they were a decrepit metal band fit only for council estate longhairs and denim-clad adolescents. Even Kerrang! were sniffy about them, the prevailing…

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