UK electronic-jazz drummer Moses Boyd and drill rapper Digga D are the most nominated artists for this year’s AIM Independent Music Awards, with three nominations each. Electronic music trailblazers Flying Lotus and Floating Points, as well as Polish pianist Hania Rani and psychedelic R'n'B singer Greentea Peng are vying for two awards each. The most attractive category, Best Independent Album, is filled with interesting releases: Brooke Bentham 'Everyday Nothing', Everything Is Recorded 'Friday Forever', Kidjo Ojua 'The Mixtape', Kim Gordon 'No Home Record', Laura Marling 'Song For Our Daughter', Moses Boyd 'Dark Matter', Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds 'Ghosteen', The Ninth Wave 'Infancy', Phoenix Da Icefire & Husky Brown 'Panacea' and Sarathy Korwar 'More Arriving'.

"Rock isn't where the punk spirit is anymore really. It’s in hip hop, it’s in Cardi B" - Kim Gordon told the Quietus in a lengthy interview (they picked her solo album as one of the records of the year). tQ wondered how it is to be introverted and a performer - "talking about yourself […]

'No Home Record' is a first solo album by Kim Gordon, former voice of Sonic Youth, and here, she sounds as fresh as ever. Lyrically, she is dealing with "these calamitous times with as much wit and menace", as Guardian says in their review (five of five stars). Sonically, it's like anything we've heard from […]

It's clever, it's funny, it's even philosophical, and it's simple. It makes you think and discuss. Just genius!

Kim Gordon has announced her first-ever solo album, 'No Home Record', coming out October 13 via Matador. The album’s new single ‘Sketch Artist’ "projects a certain restlessness of spirit", ac Fact Magazine hears it. Why a solo record, and why now? - "living in L.A. the last few years it feels like home, but the […]