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Band Of Pre-Brothers: Dire Straits’ Debut LP 40 Years On

On the 40th anniversary of their self-titled debut album, David Bennun looks back at the band Dire Straits were before mega-stardom

Confessions Of A Window Cleaner: Rodney Graham Interviewed

Rodney Graham's current show at the Lisson Gallery, London, finds the Canadian artist inhabiting a variety of characters, both on and off the canvas. Allan Gardner joins him to talk post-punk, studio practice, and conceptualism

A Question of Attribution: An American Story And The Literature Of 9/11

The new novel by Christopher Priest, An American Story, joins a growing literature concerned with, or circulating around, the atrocities on 9/11. Author and critic Nina Allan weighs up the competition

The Fight Has Already Begun: The Black Cultural Activism Map

As the Stuart Hall Foundation launch their latest initiative, the Black Cultural Activism Map – a dynamic and interactive online resource mapping past and present culturally diverse arts initiatives and cultural activism in Britain – Zahra Dalilah reports on the inauguration

Jean-Michel Jarman: The Last of Docklands

In an exclusive (edited) extract from his contribution to Regeneration Songs: Sound of Investment and Loss from East London, Will Jennings explores Derek Jarman's relationship to the London docklands

Living Treasures: Oceania At The Royal Academy

Jude Cowan Montague dives deep into the Royal Academy's exhibition of art from the region of Oceania

His Grainy Voice: REM Reviewed By Lonelady

This week sees the release of REM At The BBC, a boxset of studio and live recordings spanning 35 years. Here, Julie Campbell aka Lonelady reflects on a lifetime of loving Michael Stipe and his band

Eeestirocksampler: Welcome To New Weird Estonia

Our man from Accrington, Richard Foster, goes deep as he investigates soul-boy situationism, (pre)teen mumblerap, “techno shamanism”, nonstop laptop cabaret and tales of stolen geese whilst making sense of what constitutes (New) Weird Estonia

Rude Citizenship: Jamaican Musical Challenges to Copyright(ed) Culture

Ahead of a major festival devoted to issues around copyright, Larisa Mann explores the relationship that Jamaican soundsystem culture has to the concept of musical ownership. Photo of Sister Nancy by Campagnie Valentin

Irresponsible Science – An Interview With Maja S. K. Ratkje

Before her appearance at next month's Le Guess Who? festival, Maja S. K. Ratkje talks to Russell Cuzner about her wide-ranging work that, whether freely improvised or composed for orchestra, consistently bears the mark of an uncompromising, unconventional spirit

The Strange World Of… Current 93

In their 36 year history Current 93 have produced a body of work that is bewilderingly large; Aimee Armstrong is here to provide ten relatively accessible points of entry

Return Of The American Primitive: Joe Cardamone Interviewed

The Icarus Line is dead, but Joe Cardamone lives on. Ahead of his appearance at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, he tells Stevie Chick about his searing new multimedia project, making art in the era of Trump, and how he survived the end of the greatest rock & roll band of his generation. Videos NSFW

Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner

Care

An extraordinary, moving montage of field recordings and electronics

Lonnie Holley

MITH

A vivid document of 2018 America from the veteran outsider musician

Feel Love, Real Love: BTS at the O2

K-pop superstars start their first European tour with an expressive, emotionally charged set

Moments Of Pleasure: The Red Shoes By Kate Bush 25 Years On

It’s often dismissed as a rare misstep but, Ben Hewitt argues, her seventh album is filled with moments of pleasure

A Cult Within A Cult: The Posies Interviewed

Limits Of Control: Talking To Doug Haywood About Chris Burden

With a new show by Chris Burden (1946-2015) at the Gagosian, Jude Cowan Montague chats to friend and fellow artist Doug Haywood at the private view, taking in playfulness and theatricality, pain and performance, and – naturally – Roadrunner cartoons

Debord Games: The Situationist Spectacle In Berlin

John Quin delves through the back pages of Guy Debord and Asger Jorn on an archival detour that leads up to the events of May ‘68

Behold! Autumn’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With an uncharacteristic focus on the body and mind, it’s Autumn’s round up of comics from Pete Redrup & co

Walking On The Moon: First Man Reviewed

In Damien Chazelle's new film starring Ryan Gosling, Wyndham Hackett Pain finds yesterday's futures looking increasingly passé

Gnarly Psychos And Crazy Evil: Mandy Is A Midnight Movie For True Believers

From Sunn O))) and King Crimson to Metal Hurlant and Hellraiser, Brian Raven Ehrenpreis finds Panos Cosmatos's second feature to be more than just the sum of its references

Hyperspecific: September And October’s Electronic Music

The latest round-up of the best new electronic music focuses on recent releases emerging from Copenhagen's techno scene

Realist Of A Larger Reality: Todd Barton’s Multum In Parvo

On the Blue Tapes label, an endlessly rich new composition from the Buchla artist and Ursula K Le Guin collaborator

Maarja Nuut & Ruum

Muunduja

Marja Nuut and Hendrik Kaljujärv, aka Ruum, combine for one of the year's most beautiful journeys through inner and outer space

Connan Mockasin

Jassbusters

Uncomfortable, unsettling, and a full-band revelation: Mockasin’s new album (plus film) is the saga of a not-okay relationship

My Pioneers: Santigold’s Favourite Albums

In this week's Baker's Dozen, Santigold takes Tara Joshi through 13 favourite albums from Salt-N-Pepa to the Cocteau Twins, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone and Bad Brains, and points out that while Morrissey might have gone wrong, you can't take away what his songs once gave her

Behemoth

I Loved You At Your Darkest

The Polish metal titans’ 11th album is an ambitious, and strangely accessible shadowy package

Rockfort: Your French Music Roundup For September & October

A Canadian in our midst! Plus Club Cactus, Flavien Berger and Piles – reviewed and with a mega megamix from David McKenna

A Raging Peace: The Strange World Of… Hans-Joachim Roedelius

About to turn 84 and still going strong, Hans-Joachim Roedelius has led a long and extraordinary life, which has taken in Nazi Germany, postwar turmoil, the birth of Krautrock and working with Michael Rother and Brian Eno among others. His mind, however, is fixed on the present and the future, he tells David Stubbs

The Fall

I Am Kurious Oranj

Another magnificent Beggars Arkive reissue (on oranj vinyl)

The Warren Is Empty: Watership Down At 40

40 years on it seems as though the animated film adaptation of the Richard Adams novel has lost none of its power to disturb; nor, says Gary Budden, its allegorical potential where its creator claimed there was none