Daily Newsletter, April 12, 2024

Garage bands can be a fun mix of sounds, but these eight groups from the 1980s should not be missed.

From Sons of Kemet and The Comet is Coming, Shabaka Hutchings pivots to jazz flute with beguiling results

Six picks this week in Spanish and English ranging from Ringo Starr to Renee Goust. Something for everyone, and all good.

David Bowie had pretty much already done it all in music before the release of 1995’s Outside, or as true freaks may refer to it, 1. Outside: The Nathan Adler D

When singer-songwriter Judee Sill overdosed in 1979, aged just 35, no obituaries were printed. A re-evaluation of the musician has introduced her folk-rock country music to a new generation, as a new documentary sheds light on a life of crime, addiction, and abuse. Jim Farber speaks to the film’s creators and Sill’s friends, including Graham Nash and Andy Partridge of XTC, about her astounding legacy

Explore the diverse sounds of 1994 and delve into the stories behind the music that remains as vibrant today as it was three decades ago.

“There are all sorts of technical gizmos you can get these days, but I still prefer a notebook and pencil,” says the performance poet

The last days of the 1970s included some fine albums from AC/DC, The Police, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and more... take a look at our picks from '79.

It’s curious to consider what a venerable old thing noise music is. That this most singularly untameable of musics – the place where melody, harmony and pulse all go to die – is an Edwardian invention. It first arrived in this country 110 years ago when futurists Filippo Marinetti and Luigi Russolo set up camp

Keep the condition at bay, and upgrade something much more important