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There’s a whole wide open area of leftfield music that belongs entirely to Chicago.

Ellie Roberts |

The All-American Rejects are back with their first album in 14 years, and their first ever independent release. At the height of their success in the early 2000s, the band had an established place in the pop rock landscape, one foot in emo culture and the other heading into the mainstream, but halted before they inevitably became too radio ready.

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Though set in a Czech village during the last months of World War Two, armed conflict is peripheral in Karel Kachyňa’s Long Live the Republic! (Ať…
Mark Kidel
Well beyond the muscle-flexing of the manosphere, there are men who wear their hearts on their sleeves, and show much deeper courage than the macho…
Guy Oddy
Anyone doubting Venom’s place on the highest level of the pantheon of Rock Gods might want to check out Sunn O)))’s recent, self-titled album. Their…

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Joe Muggs
A long history of bleeps, clonks and funkiness is channelled into this Danish techno
Tom Carr
Fifth album from Basement is more fleet-footed and breezy, but still rocking and hefty.
Liz Thomson
The Rick Rubin trilogy reaches completion
johncarvill
Top-tier Kurosawa melds visual beauty with moral clarity
Ibi Keita
Not quite the team they were in college
Thomas H. Green
Fifth album by queasy indie-folk sorts finds poetry in dark corners
Kathryn Reilly
The most palatable Spice invites us all to dance with joy
Tim Cumming
A post break-up album, packed with real life, real good times, and real hurt
Kieron Tyler
Salvation Army band dynamics, a country music lilt and more
Guy Oddy
Belfast hip-hoppers explicitly refuse to tone things down
peter.quinn
This debut album is a genre-hopping feast for the ears
Joe Muggs
At 85, Ringo has found a voice a world away from his cartoon persona
Kieron Tyler
Grot-permeated hard rock with a debt to the early Seventies
Tom Carr
Energetic and carefree, but ultimately it flatters to deceive
graham.rickson
Quirky and gripping French horror film, produced under Nazi occupation
Mark Kidel
One Direction alumnus draws on many sources of inspiration, not least his Asian heritage
Tim Cumming
A fine new set from the 'Stay with me Til Dawn' singer
Liz Thomson
A seventh album from the Angelino folk duo
Guy Oddy
Canadian DJ, producer, remixer and label head returns with an order to dance
Kieron Tyler
From the pacific to the pulverising, jazz-adjacent trio carve-out their own musical character
Thomas H. Green
A 13-track set that channels raunchy 1970s excess with aplomb
Thomas H. Green
A stunning set, rife with wild vocals and explosive electronics
Thomas H. Green
Lyrically chewy, youthful, indie-tinted, and mostly likeable
Tom Carr
Angsty yet immediate, powerful dose of alternative rock

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