New releases from The Jayhawks, Primal Scream, and Max Subar

New releases from The Mountains Goats, Ed O’Brien, and YHWH Nailgun

Media Lens at 25: David Cromwell and David Edwards reflect on a quarter-century of media criticism, explaining why independent journalism is more important than ever

New releases from Laura Veirs, The Waterboys, and Yard Act

New releases from Shearwater, Florry, and Navy Blue

IAN SINCLAIR examines the curious memory lapses across liberal media when it comes to British government crimes

IAN SINCLAIR relishes a fantastical globetrotting thriller featuring one of the most memorable characters in contemporary literature

New releases from Steve Swallow, Neil Young & The Chrome Hearts, and Ady Johnson

New releases from Rosa Walton, Paul McCartney, and Aidan Thorne & Jason Ball

Established as a landmark victory for the climate movement, the CCC promised to hold governments to account. Today, it is understating the danger of climate chaos and impeding the radical action needed, says IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Death Cab For Cutie, Kacey Musgraves, and Mountain Of Youth

Reviews of Charlotte Cornfield, Michael Weston King, and Gun Outfit

IAN SINCLAIR draws our attention to a film, available for everyone to use, to stimulate community discussion and active engagement in the climate emergency

IAN SINCLAIR recommends a documentary that highlights the multifarious benefits of legalising access to land throughout England

New releases from Kneecap, Sam Blasucci, and Juni Habel

Outrage greeted Donald Trump’s suggestion earlier this year that Britain stayed off the front lines. But evidence suggests our forces were at times pulled from the most dangerous fighting — not by military failure, but by pressure at home, says IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Brown Horse, Johnny Blue Skies & The Dark Clouds, and The Sophs

New releases from Joe Pernice, Arlo Parks, and Marilyn Crispell & Anders Jormin

The media present Starmer as staying out of Trump’s war — but we’re already deeply involved in a conflict that sees the US and Israel kill civilians on a huge scale, argues IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Shabaka, Squeeze, and Roswell Road

IAN SINCLAIR looks at how we are made to swallow, without question, the porkies fed to us by the mass media

IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a mainstream scholar to the ranks of left-wing critique of US foreign policy

New releases from Bill Callahan, The Delines, and Beck

New releases from Pat Metheny, Greazy Alice, and Momoko Gill

New releases from Keeley, Lucinda Williams and Ye Vagabonds

As liberal commentators puzzle over the Prime Minister’s record-breaking unpopularity, the reasons remain glaringly obvious to everyone else, says IAN SINCLAIR

IAN SINCLAIR revels in the reissue of great recordings by one of the most recognisable and radical voices in British music

New releases from Van Morrison, Tyler Ballgame, and Dry Cleaning

New releases by Porridge Radio, The Cribs, and Bjorn Meyer

On January 2 2014, PJ Harvey used her turn as guest editor of the Today programme to expose the realities of war, arms dealing and media complicity. The fury that followed showed how rare – and how threatening – such honesty is within Britain’s most Establishment broadcaster, says IAN SINCLAIR

From pop anthems that take on patriarchy to masterful Gaza-themed Oud-playing, IAN SINCLAIR picks his best albums of the year

IAN SINCLAIR recommends an important and timely book for climate politics right now and in the future

New releases from The Belair Lip Bombs, Lisa O’Neill, and Sessa

There are multiple avenues for governments and corporations to ensure academia and think tanks serve their agendas, explains IAN SINCLAIR – and we need to expose that

New releases from The Dreaming Spires, Bruce Springsteen, and Chet Baker

New releases from Steady Habits, Jeff Tweedy, and Tom Skinner

IAN SINCLAIR welcomes a lucid critique of a technology that reproduces and enables oppression, power, and environmental devastation

Reviews of new releases by Wednesday, Suede, and Nation of Language

Reviews of new releases by Jens Lekman, Big Thief, and Christian McBride Big Band

IAN SINCLAIR reviews new releases from The Beaches, CMAT and Kathleen Edwards

From training Israeli colonels during the slaughter to protecting Israel at the UN, senior British figures should fear Article 3 of the Genocide Convention that criminalises complicity in mass killing, writes IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Cassandra Jenkins, Ryan Davis & the Roundhouse Band, and Case Oats

New releases from Paul Weller, Wet Leg, and Dino Saluzzi

At the very moment Britain faces poverty, housing and climate crises requiring radical solutions, the liberal press promotes ideologically narrow books while marginalising authors who offer the most accurate understanding of change, writes IAN SINCLAIR

New releases from Allo Darlin’, Loyle Carner and Mike Polizze

New releases from Toby Hay, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Dobson & The Hanging Stars

As the cover-ups collapse, IAN SINCLAIR looks at the shocking testimony from British forces who would ‘go in and shoot everyone sleeping there’ during night raids — illegal, systematic murder spawned by an illegal invasion 
 

Reviews of More, Remembering Now, and New Vienna

IAN SINCLAIR wades through a useful but academic study of the protest song

New releases from Kassi Valazza, Mark Pritchard & Thom Yorke, and Friendship

New releases from Robert Forster, Self Esteem, and Arve Henriksen

New releases reviewed by IAN SINCLAIR