Persher: Unnatural Selection

As Persher, Blawan and Pariah cut and splice the DNA of hardcore and metal to let loose new extremes

Scalping: Body Language

Scalping aren’t the first to harness the dual energies of basement ragers and noise, but they might be the most uncompromising

Duma

Minor Science

Sunn O)))

Carter Tutti Void

Michailo + Irakli

Konx-om-Pax

From idol to auteur:
5 albums that define the career of Scott Walker

In the wake of the singer’s passing this week, we chart the touchstones of his musical trajectory

Unsound 2018: Frontier sounds at the European underground’s favourite festival

Berlin Atonal 2018: High-concept club sounds and challenging electronics

Helena Hauff

Lotic

Elysia Crampton

Grouper

David Byrne

Various Artists

Semibreve cements its status as one of the finest small festivals in Europe

15 years in, sounds from the margins still flourish at Unsound

Klein

Hype Williams

Actress: Altered Identities

After what many assumed was his final album, the producer returns with a new sound palette – a conscious break with the past. We enter his world to find an artist in constant flux

The Bug Vs Earth

Alien possibilities and real-life rage at Howling Owl’s New Year New Noise

Encounter-culture: Powell

Xavier Boucherat ekes out a dialogue covering the beauty of Berghain, holding court with 900 strangers and the humble watermelon with Diagonal boss Powell

Various Artists

DJ Rashad

Holly Herndon:
New Feelings

Along with collaborators Mat Dryhurst and Colin Self, Holly Herndon is creating radically progressive art to portray the emotional palettes of today. Xavier Boucherat heads out to Berlin to discuss the ideology that drives them

Watching Kanye at Cardiff Cineworld

Xavier Boucherat heads over to one of the the Welsh capital’s prime screens to catch an earful of ‘The Life of Pablo’

Paranoid London