Core News — “Anne Hilde Neset joins Stuart with pieces created using a specific compositional system. From David Bowie’s use of Brian Eno’s Oblique Strategies to John Zorn’s game pieces and John Cage’s devotion to I Ching.” Stuart Maconies Freakier Z... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — by Andrew Sacher Electronic wizard Clark followed last year's Feast / Beast with an excellent self-titled record earlier this year on Warp. Not long ago he put out the video for the sprawling IDM of single "Winter Linn" (dir. Christopher... more info

Nialler9 — The fledgling label Aesop has this year given us a fine EP from Iranian/English electronic producer TĀLĀ, and for their second release, with the London/Frankfurt-based musician(s) Sylas, not only is the music intricate, deeply-detailed and advance... more info

Stereogum — The British singer-songwriter Marianne Faithfull has been making music since the mid-’60s, and her shit is still darker and meaner and more mythic than most everything else out there. On her new album Give My Love To London, Faithfull worked with p... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — The Antlers at Rough Trade in June (more by Amanda Hatfield) Producer/musician Daniel Lanois (known for work with Brian Eno, U2, Neil Young, Peter Gabriel and others) has teamed up with ANTI- Records to curate a concert called ANTI-Thesis happening..... more info

Stereogum — Low is certainly one of David Bowie’s very best albums, but when it comes to backstory, no other album compares. A lot of this is covered in Hugo Wilcken’s reverent 33 1/3 book , but: The thing was recorded when Bowie was at his creative peak and... more info

Stereogum — Electric Würms are a Flaming Lips side project featuring band members Steve Drodz and Wayne Coyne. This month, the new band will release the 6-song EP Musik Die Shwer Zu Twerk. They’ve described it as being influenced by prog rock and Miles Davis,... more info

NME — The producer brands America as "hypocritical" for its support of Israel's "ragingly racist theocracy" in Gaza more info

Pop Candy — Thursday's headlines also include Jack White, Brian Eno and 'Road House.' more info

Stereogum — As the tragic violence in Gaza has been heating up again, so has debate about the conflict between Israel and Hamas. Rock stars have been getting in on that discourse, most prominently Eddie Vedder, who delivered a controversial onstage rant, an impa... more info