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In My Ears #22 – Daniel Lopatin, Don Caballero & Carole King

Plus: a trip down memory lane

Jan 9 • Oliver Kemp

Blackstar at 10: Band leader Donny McCaslin on Bowie’s final chapter

A decade on, I speak to the saxophonist and band leader about working with David – and the indelible impression the man left on his own work.

Jan 6 • Oliver Kemp

Your last-minute Christmas book buying guide

Gifts for the music lover in your life

Dec 23, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #21 – more great records from 2025

They might have missed the AOTY cut, but they deserve recognition all the same

Dec 19, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Recommendations

Loud And Quiet

Stuart Stubbs

That Final Scene

That Final Scene

Sophie

Footnotes and Tangents

Footnotes and Tangents

Simon Haisell

Every Tom Waits Song

Every Tom Waits Song

Ray Padgett

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Interviews

Blackstar at 10: Band leader Donny McCaslin on Bowie’s final chapter

A decade on, I speak to the saxophonist and band leader about working with David – and the indelible impression the man left on his own work.

Jan 6 • Oliver Kemp

My perplexing two-week conversation with Bogdan Raczynski

One of IDM's most playful artists delights in dodging, contradicting, and keeping me guessing.

Nov 25, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

1,200 number ones later: inside one man’s quest to understand pop music

If you listened to every Billboard Hot 100 number one song since 1958, what would it reveal?

Oct 28, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Inside the most vulnerable metal record in years

An autism diagnosis became the through-line of Conjurer’s new LP – and a lifeline for one of its members

Oct 21, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Singing for your all-time favourite band: Mike Vennart on joining Cardiacs

Our conversation covered LSD – the mythic new Cardiacs record – and the 20th anniversary of Oceansize's Everyone Into Position.

Aug 26, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Tonight: AOTY Listening Club session 🎧

Come listen to Yazz Ahmed's A Paradise In The Hold

Dec 18, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

[Bonus video] Revisiting my AOTY winners, 2016–2025

Plus: details for the next Listening Club session

Dec 12, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

The 20 Best Records of 2025

From psychedelic Arabic jazz to glassy electronic techno – oh, what a year!

Dec 7, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #20 – Oneohtrix Point Never, Town Portal & an Eno classic at 50

Plus: Long live 'From The Basement'

Nov 28, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

My perplexing two-week conversation with Bogdan Raczynski

One of IDM's most playful artists delights in dodging, contradicting, and keeping me guessing.

Nov 25, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

In My Ears #19 – FKA twigs, Clark & Tortoise

Plus: Winning the war against ticket touts

Nov 21, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Tonight: first deep cuts listening club session 🎧

Come listen to Coltrane and Fishmans

Nov 20, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

Weyes Blood – Titanic Rising / a deep cuts essential

Sinking civilisation never sounded this beautiful

Nov 18, 2025 • Oliver Kemp

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