Beta band

The Aliens and Dan Le Sac performing at Loop too

Full-length debut from Montreal's 28-year-old rock purist

Fife's own musical micro-industry

Set fire to anything. Set fire to the air," urged John Cale at the beginning of Music For A New Society. That 1982 masterpiece was the evisceration of a man whose fractured psyche was mirrored perfectly by songs arranged in jagged, improvisatory style; a knife held at the throat of sweetness. Now he reappears with his first album of songs for seven years, and his finest album in any genre for over two decades.

Polished, insubstantial debut from Deptford quartet

Mercury Rev, MJ Lenderman, John Murry & Michael Timmins and more appear on our On The Highway compilation

Politically-minded concept album gets a timely reissue

In the world of The Beatles, now and then have increasingly gone hand in hand. 50 years of Sgt Pepper’s were celebrated with unreleased...

Even before he left us for the last time, Tom Verlaine was a difficult person to locate. A couple of years ago, Uncut doorstepped...

Their pivot-point LP gets a fresh spin