Long Reads

Cosmic icon and Casio busker The Space Lady reflects on her 50-year journey – from San Francisco street performer to her debut club tour aged 66 – and why she believes she’s finally ready to plant her feet back on terra firma

What do you get if you combine Gong’s flamboyant guitarist, an internationally renowned bagpipe builder and a six-time world snooker champion? The joyous friendships behind The Utopia Strong, whose third studio album, ‘Doperider’, is an occult-flavoured delight

After a 16-year hiatus, glorious oddballs Wevie Stonder are back. Deploying a familiar melange of multi-hued electronics, eccentric humour, cartoonish sound effects and patently skewed storytelling, they’re still delightfully bonkers

Brian Eno and Beatie Wolfe are far more than simple musicians. From ingenious and engaging sound art to thought-provoking exhibitions and installations, here is a potted guide to some of their works beyond music

A new compilation celebrates South London’s influential Telepathic Fish ambient/chill-out parties of the 1990s. Some of the original crew look back at the scene’s evolution and how even a certain Richard D James joined the fold

Polish director Andrzej Z˙uławski’s surrealist sci-fi epic ‘Na Srebrnym Globie’ – ‘On The Silver Globe’ – was shut down by the Communist regime and partially destroyed, then finished in secret and never formally released...

With its clubby swagger and “scuffed vignettes”, Baxter Dury’s new album, ‘Allbarone’, is a joyous tour de force of bangers and typically sardonic lyrical swipes.

Hamburg’s formidable Black Sites – Helena Hauff and Kris Jakob – finally unleash their first full-length offering, an electrifying collision of machine precision and pulsating EBM