On the cover: Masma Dream World: Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME TO ME.By Emily Pothast. Inside: Louis Laurain: The French cornettist cooks up fresh brass constructions on new album C(or)N(e)T.By Clive Bell; Caxtrinho: The Brazilian guitarist maps Rio’s outer regions through his dense, cubist songwriting.

On the cover: Masma Dream World : Devi Mambouka channels the voices of the spirits on new album PLEASE COME TO ME . By Emily Pothast. Inside: Louis Laurain : The French cornettist cooks up fresh brass constructions on new album C(or)N(e)T . By Clive Bell; Caxtrinho : The Brazilian guitarist maps Rio’s outer regions through his dense, cubist songwriting.

Issue 490 December 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 490.. Inside our brand new issue: A R Kane: The dreampop originators return with an archival retrospective, live performances – and a brand new line-up.By Simon Reynolds Intermodulation: A hidden history of UK electroacoustic experimentation is …

Issue 481 March 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 481.. Inside our brand new issue: The Haxan Cloak: From his bedroom in Wakefield to the City of Angels, the UK born producer, composer and musician talks darkness, light and scoring the unspeakable.By Joseph Stannard DJ Znobia: The Angolan kuduro innovator relates the invention and evolution of the ...

Issue 472 June 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 472.. Inside our brand new issue: Totally Wire-d: A 20 page special unpicking everything you wanted to know about Mark E Smith and The Fall by the totally Wire-d writers’ squad: Claire Biddles, Graham Duff, Esi Eshun, Louise Gray, Michael Fenton, Jo Hutton, Leah Kardos, Stewart Lee, Craig Leon ...

Issue 479/480 January 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 479/480.. Inside our brand new issue: Releases of the Year: We asked our contributors to vote for their top ten records, CDs, streams and more, then added up the votes Critics’ Reflections: Our writers discuss their memorable cultural experiences of the year

The great US drummer died on 12 November aged 99. In 2000, Philip Clark interviewed him, discussing some of the stellar moments in a jazz life that traversed the entire history of the music and encounters with Lester Young, Charlie Parker, …

Issue 488 October 2024. Subscribers: read this issue online.. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 488.. Inside our brand new issue: Keiji Haino: From Black Blues to grey hairs, the Fushitsusha figurehead keeps pushing into rock’s outer limits.By James Hadfield. The Primer: John Butcher: A user’s guide to the saxophone innovator, …

Issue 467 January 2023. Subscribers: read this issue online. Subscribe to the magazine. Buy issue 467. Inside this issue: 2022 Rewind: the year in underground music Releases Of The Year: We asked our contributors to nominate their top ten records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we added up the votes Critics’ Reflections: Wire …

On the cover: The Necks : Onward, ever onward with the inexhaustible Australian outfit. By Daniel Spicer. Plus: The Necks’ solo projects: Album guide by Bill Meyer; Marc Hollander : The Crammed Discs founder and Aksak Maboul agitator reflects on his cross-cultural career. By Julian Cowley. Plus: Crammed Discs: Highlights from the catalogue by Clive Bell; Invisible Jukebox: James Brandon ...