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As Algiers release second album The Underside Of Power, an explosive combination of gospel, noise and righteous politics, Luke Turner visited the band on the Berlin leg of their current European stadium tour with Depeche Mode.
Following the return of his ground-breaking ambient techno Gas project with Narkopop after a seventeen-year hiatus and a renewed live presence, Wolfgang Voigt speaks to Maria Perevedentseva about three decades of collapsing the boundaries between the minimal and the maximal, and the popular and the esoteric
Read a hard hitting extract from a new book on heavy metal and hip hop in the Middle East, concerning the fate of several metalheads who tried to keep the Syrian scene alive, despite tremendous odds against them doing so
In a record both timely and timeless, Franklin Fisher, Ryan Mahan, Lee Tesche and Matt Tong have tapped into something both immediate and primal. Their most politically-drenched record to-date, The Underside of Power, Karl Smith argues, is also proof of their quality as musicians
Almost exactly a year after the UK voted to leave the EU Luke Turner finds the experience of watching Kraftwerk play live has acquired an unexpected melancholy aspect. Do we Brits no longer deserve their European futurism?
The Black Angels take a long, dark trip on their new album Death Song. Guitarist Christian Bland tells Julian Marszalek why psychedelics might help change things for the better, and about being the parents of psychedelia's live revival
As Julian Barratt releases 'You Can't Handcuff The Wind', a single by alter-ego Richard Thorncroft, he guides Adrian Lobb through 13 favourite albums, from Miles Davis to Zappa, Fela Kuti and the soundtracks of the Wicker Man and more
Ahead of Manchester International Festival's Tony Wilson and Factory Records remembrance event on July 10, Stuart Huggett takes a retrospective look at every album released by Factory Records’ classical music imprint, including new interviews with key players in its story