A shop claiming to be the UK’s smallest vinyl record shop has opened its, er, door. Owner Matthew Hawton cut the ribbon of Marrs Plectrum Records this week in the garden of his house in ...

The nu-rave poster boys are splitting up. Well, probably. In a pair of tweets posted today, the Klaxons announced that “after what’s been nearly nine bananas years we’d like to let you know ...

“Scratching is more like a transformation sequence, more like the audio parallel of The Thing or American Werewolf, where you see the human transformed into a werewolf, and just before they ...

Detroit electro royalty DJ Stingray 313 re-launches his label, Micron Audio, with a collaboration with Iranian-Canadian visual artist Bahar Noorizadeh. ‘Bioplastics’ heralds the return of ...

ÄÄNET is a homage to Pan Sonic and to the late Mika Vainio. Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen has announced the release of a new full-length ÄÄNET, the first under his new moniker I-LP-ON.

When rumours began circulating of Mark Lawrence’s time on Castro’s hermit kingdom, you couldn’t help but romanticise. Was this to be a story album, a travelogue – The Bass Diaries, if you ...

The veteran producer and teaching professor records a set from his California sound laboratory. King Britt started his career as a resident DJ at Philadelphia’s Silk City in the early ’90s ...

It’s well-documented that getting your music out there, in 2013, is easier than ever. Whether it’s starting a vinyl label, building the foundations of a one-man Bandcamp empire or indulging ...

Originally published by The Vinyl Factory. A companion to his Rainford album. Lee “Scratch” Perry is releasing a new dub record called Heavy Rain, via On-U Sound this December. Its 12-tracks ...

The Edit wants to help you build the ultimate record collection. Introducing the latest vinyl-related service to try and enable your record addiction. Sign up and they’ll send you a text message ...

M1 On the Beat wants to know if I’d like some juice. Even though he and production partner MK The Plug have become two of the most in-demand drill producers, their sense of community hasn’t ...

Godspeed You! Black Emperor‘s first studio album in a decade has won Canada’s answer to the Mercury Music Prize. Since 2006, the Polaris Music Prize ceremony has cerebrated the best albums ...