Tortoise

For 35 years, the sonic scientists of TORTOISE have toiled to redefine the scope and possibilities of indie music. Their influence has been pervasive, but their methods and results remain unique. So don’t call them ‘post-rock’, OK? “Our genre is that there isn’t a genre,” they tell GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN .

Wilco dynamo’s fifth solo LP is a wildly eclectic triple that celebrates collective creativity and freedom.

Big Thief are jetlagged. The American band, whose sixth album Double Infinity came out recently, are sprawled around a hotel room in King’s Cross, Central London. And singer and chief songwriter Adria

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Everything We Do Is Music – How 20th-Century Classical Music Shaped Pop Elizabeth Alker Faber 304pp (hb) £20 The concept behind Elizabeth’s Alker’s book is spelled out in the subtitle: ‘How 20th-Centu