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As Per My Last Email, Inside a 26-year residency, First & Best with Phil Wang, Cameron Winter live album, My New Band Believe remix 12”, BURNHAM
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A different approach to music writing: in depth, long-form, very clever and/or vaguely ridiculous
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Critical retention: Telepathe
A new column on the best cult bands of Loud And Quiet's past, fishing in the bottomless lake of music made since 2005
Inside a 26-year residency
In Austin, Texas, Heybale have played the same room every week since the turn of the century, at times invisible to their dancing public
The case for a drama-free, unbroken music career
Sam Walton peels back the layers on Lambchop's new album Punching The Clown, a record that could only exist after 33 years of uninterrupted trial and error
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Why Horses?, First & Best with Man/Woman/Chainsaw, Donald Trump's Summer Playlist, are Elastica back?, the month's best in experimental music, the Sun goes on hiatus
Donald Trump’s Summer Playlist 2026
“I have studied all music. Ask anyone.”
Critical retention: Fair Ohs
A new column on the best cult bands of Loud And Quiet's past, fishing in the bottomless lake of music made since 2005
The Drift: the summer’s best in weird and experimental music
Cal Cashin returns for a roundup of the world’s best new weird releases from the month of July (and June, actually)
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Standing On The Corner, First & Best with Nish Kumar, Kevin Morby live in London, deluxe Dry Cleaning, heartbreak for (most of) England
Hide your love away: fan capture and the slow cancellation of creative control
The creator economy has flipped the artist–fan relationship, dumping market risk onto musicians and rewarding compliance
Has Kevin Morby’s music been deeply sexy all this time?
Edge away as a man twerks on his girlfriend in the middle of a heatwave