Anna Wood

Join Working Men's Club, intense new stars of Pennine Rave

Pissing on a policeman, daydreaming of guillotines, dancing round the maypole: for The Social Gathering's Mayday edition

From the DHSS chants of Wham Rap! to the Aids-aware and shame-free joy of I Want Your Sex, George Michael taught us a few things about how politics and pleasure intersect

Three extraordinary albums, recently reissued, mark a key turning point in Coltrane’s journey away from jazz and the music industry

This Liverpool community survived managed decline and made their streets a wonderful place to live

Anna Wood on womanliness, performance and having fun, with Christine & the Queens and Grace Jones at Øya festival

We talked to Lias, Nathan and Róisín about rave culture, class war and the amazing new Fat Whites album

More buried treasure from the North American multi-instrumentalist

New year’s resolution for cocky shitty white men: sit down and be quiet. New year’s resolution for everyone else: do what you like

Gabe Gurnsey, one half of Factory Floor, has moved up North and made a rave album. It is filthy and brilliant, immaculate and unsettling

Postman Kevin Boniface’s book Round About Town, reviewed

Remastered anniversary reissue of the debut LP from a giant of British pop; with many remixes and a gold vinyl option

Their new album Powerhouse is a celebration of family, of queerness, and of “radical vulnerability”. Here Planningtorock, aka Jam Rostron, traces the path from 90s Bolton to Berlin and back again

Six Kinshasa street musicians, the blues, the funk and a satonge: Benda Bilili! reviewed

This fictionalised biography of playwright Andrea Dunbar is a work of meticulous research combined with an extraordinary amount of love