13+ hour, 33+ min ago  (686+ words) In places like Sumy, close to the front, people have developed a grim expertise in recognising attacking drones by sound, explosive power, or silhouette. Children learn at school how to identify mines and stop severe bleeding. The war's sonic vocabulary…...

1+ day, 11+ hour ago  (860+ words) The project started around 2017 which means " with the album only now seeing the light of day " Clarke, Arthur and Benge have spent the best part of a decade working on something that began as little more than a friendly suggestion…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (188+ words) Oh Mr James, Steeling Sheep and Voka Gentle for West Country festival this April Quietus editor John Doran was delighted to be invited to be part of the Conference bill on Saturday lunchtime, held at Falmouth University's'Woodlane'Campus, talking about The…...

2+ day, 13+ hour ago  (553+ words) Stripped back to a two-piece, the latest from the Seattle-born drone monsters returns the group to their thrillingly arboreal roots "He painted trees as by some special divining instinct of their essential qualities. He understood them." At the 69th annual International…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (1007+ words) The year was 1996. This is the year EYEHATEGOD and Iron Monkey battled to be the heaviest band in the world. Heaviness is about struggle, and these bands struggled: struggled with addictions and bad fortune; struggled to make ends meet and…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (773+ words) The band's music exists in a space between wild artistic freedom and the righteous anger that defines the lyrics of Moor Mother. Their focus on social and racial justice is written into their DNA. They did after all first come…...

3+ day, 9+ hour ago  (732+ words) From cooperation in the face of political tension, to complex approaches to tradition, Jakub Knera explores the many driving forces of Croatia's underground music scene, and picks out 10 key releases The contemporary scene also reflects deep historical layers of regional…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (728+ words) Our delightful origin story takes place around a Grateful Dead tribute show that Bill and I played together," says Ethan Miller, when I ask how he, guitarist Bill Orcutt, and drummer Steve Shelley came to form a trio. Don't tell…...

4+ day, 11+ hour ago  (664+ words) After stripping pop down to its electro-skeleton in the first half of the decade, Prince built it back up from bones in 1986, says Toby Manning John Freeman was not a fan of post-Witness rebirth Prince. Here he recalls happier days…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (772+ words) Further context to Fall Heads Roll comes in the form of bonus recordings. There's some gems here, including a Peel Session of the brilliantly strange off-cut "Job Search' and the US version of "Blindness', with its stronger pacing and Smith…...