Laang

Discoballs! Foxes! Monsters! Babymetal, their guests, and a Harvard music lecturer break down every track on new album Metal Forth

This trio of Los Angeles musicians fuse the rhythms of Havana, Medellín and Lima with the sounds of 60s surf music – though their sound has more in common with Latin folk music than Dick Dale. We join them to talk about their debut album, fibreglass guitars and tropical psychedelia

BEX / MONTYKEATES

Japan’s modern-day shamans weave together past, present and future, via a healthy dose of folky doom

CONFESS

THE HAMMER INTERVIEW