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Julian Marszalek On Jane Weaver’s Modern Kosmology

With one eye on the dancefloor and another on those sprawling existential questions we may never truly answer, Jane Weaver's Modern Kosmology is a joyous relief to cynical cosmic vibes

Felicia Atkinson

Hand In Hand

An Expanse Of Sound: Jane Weaver’s Favourite Albums

With the release of her stunning new album, Modern Kosmology, Jane Weaver talks to John Freeman about the 13 records that shaped her musical universe. Portrait by Rebecca Lupton.

Junk Shop Classical: Music Stories Told £1 Record By £1 Record

In this new column, Phil Hebblethwaite will be picking one classical record bought in a charity shop per month, beginning with Jean Sibelius, Symphony No. 4 played by the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Herbert von Karajan - a doomy symphony that sounds like how many of us feel today

Bathory’s Under The Sign Of The Black Mark 30 Years On

Jim '...Of Doom' Martin and Louise 'Woman Of Dark Desires' Brown celebrate three decades of Eternal Fire with help from members of Grand Magus, Paradise Lost, White Hills and Katatonia

How Footwork Began: An Interview With DJ Clent

In London, on his first tour outside the US, the footwork pioneer tells Tevye Markson about growing up in the South Side projects of Chicago, the impact of DJ Rashad's death and the origins of footwork

Pep Llopis

Poiemusia La Nau Dels Argonautes

After The Burn Out: Evan Dando Interviewed By Michael Hann

Evan Dando kicks off a small British tour today. Michael Hann speaks to him about getting chewed up by the machine and spat out the other side

Manic Street Preachers

Send Away The Tigers (Reissue)

Something Really Beautiful: An Interview With M.I.A.

Ahead of her Meltdown festival, M.I.A. talks to Anna Wood about misfits, British identity and staying wide awake in the music industry

Marco Shuttle

Systhema

Paul Weller

A Kind Revolution

Music Is A Very Precious Personal Thing: Danny Passarella Interviewed

Ahead of his latest solo release, Passarella Death Squad founder Danny Broddle talks to Tara Joshi about creative polymathy, breakdancing and signature sounds

A Vision of Hell: The Cure’s Pornography as Psychedelic Post Punk Masterpiece

Julian Marszalek sets controls for the heart of the bad trip and speaks to Lol Tolhurst, Youth and John Robb in order to get to the bottom of The Cure's darkest - and most tripped out - album

The Last Work Of Art: Remembering Remko Scha

With a show dedicated to his visual work currently at TG Gallery, Nottingham, Craft/Work pays tribute to Remko Scha (1945–2015), pioneer of automatic art

“Dialogue Is Our Ceremony”: An Interview With Postcommodity

With work currently on show at the Whitney Biennial and Brooklyn's Art in General, Adam Lehrer talks to Raven Chacon, Cristóbal Martínez, and Kade L. Twist of interdisciplinary arts collective, Postcommodity

Better To Reign In Hell: Alien: Covenant Reviewed

Christopher Machell reviews Ridley Scott's eagerly anticipated latest contribution to the Alien franchise. Is it a return to form? Or just another bug hunt? (Contains slight spoilers)

Into This Wild Abyss: The Existential Terror Of Alien

With Alien Covenant out in cinemas Christopher Machell looks back at HR Giger's greatest creation and analyses exactly what it is that gives it its ferocious and lasting power

Sinjin Hawke

First Opus

Black Lips

Satan's Graffiti Or God's Art?

Is Poptimism Now As Blinkered As The Rockism It Replaced?

With every pop release hailed like the coming of a prophet have the big names of the mainstream sucked up too much critical oxygen? Michael Hann asks if poptimism has merely ended up becoming as narrow minded as the rockism it usurped. (Pictured - the "pop South Sea Bubble" of PC Music)

Mat Colegate On Man Forever’s Play What They Want

In John Colpitts' latest outing as Man Forever, Mat Colegate finds a record invoking a fading – or altogether faded – vision of bohemian New York, but one which does so through power and innovation, rather than nostalgia

Bill MacKay

Esker

Kasabian

For Crying Out Loud

Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind

Super Natural

Not-So-Bitter Music: Ali ‘Perc’ Wells On His Favourite 13 Albums

We've sent that young rascal Tonka to interview Ali Wells about the albums that made him Perc, from Huey Lewis & The News to Pete Swanson, Aphex, and how Iron Maiden made his kick drum mockery-proof

This Is What We Get: 20 Years Of OK Computer

Two decades later Brian Coney looks at how the Radiohead album takes the temperature of 21st century anxiety, while examining our relationship with technology and the murkiness of modern politics

Hiroshima Mon Amour: Paul Thomsen Kirk Of Akatombo Interviewed

Paul Thomsen Kirk uses the isolation afforded him by life as a Westerner in Japan to make his own special brand of dub and post punk influenced industrial music, says David Stubbs

Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus

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Revisiting Fields Of The Nephilim: Dawnrazor 30 Years On

Julian Marszalek remembers 30 years ago, when it were all Fields Of The Nephilim round 'ere