David Keenan acquired his craft as a music writer, he says, from reading the crème de la crème of critics who milked rock ...

"I think it really had a nice trajectory," he says of his former band Sonic Youth, "and it certainly doesn't feel unfinished ...

the song-centric music of Sonic Youth, the pioneering noise rock band he co-founded in 1980, and the experimental world born from his upbringing in New York’s No Wave scene in the late ’70s ...

Thom York and Mark Pritchard’s new single is not their first collaboration, but it is certainly their most exciting one yet.

The founder of Erased Tapes has told NME about bringing experimental music to the Royal Albert Hall for the 2025 edition of the Teenager Cancer Trust gigs. The iconic independent music label is ...

Glasgow’s AC Projects’ Music Space offers a nine-month bursary programme for people aged 16-25, offering professional development in contemporary and experimental music. Its creative producer, ...

Songs from Chile and Brazil, experimental music from Argentina, and the video of Heloísa Fernandes Quartet's concert in New York in 2025.

Enjoy shows from jazz to bluegrass to electronic to gospel – all for free at Big Ears in 2025. There are moving exhibitions and talks, too.

where she studied alternative tuning systems and threw herself into the city’s experimental music scene. The Sacrificial Code soon established a cult following, perhaps in part because its ...

Four years on, aya's astonishing second album, 'hexed!', has landed, and looks fixed to become a definitive contribution to the experimental music landscape. Marking her return to Hyperdub Records, ...

For the first time since its release in 1979, “Eskimo,” the avant-garde album by The Residents, will be performed in full. The long-awaited live debut is set for Saturday, June 7 at the Mayan Theater ...