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Repeating, Shouting, Pointing: Fixmer/McCarthy Interviewed

As Terence Fixmer and Douglas McCarthy ex of Nitzer Ebb prepare to bring their full-throttling collaboration Fixmer/McCarthy to the UK this weekend, Luke Turner dropped them a line to find out their dirty little secrets

Pop For The Politically Disillusioned: Charlotte Church Live

There's a club if you'd like to go... you might end up singing a mash up of Faithless, Fat Boy Slim and Snap along with a leftwing Welsh pop & opera singer and forget that the world's ending, says Daniel Dylan Wray

Bits & Pieces: Angus Batey On The History Of Cut And Paste

With its roots in both the avant garde and novelty music, cut & paste came of age in 1987 with the likes of Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu, Coldcut, Steinski, Bomb The Bass and M/A/R/R/S. Angus Batey traces the history of this magpie movement

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Banishing Ritual

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Nordic Flora Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City

Doctor Who Season Ten: The Pilot, Reviewed By John Tatlock

Doctor Who shakes off the ponderous bloat of recent years, and emerges lean, sharp and strange, says John Tatlock

Kiss Me Deadly: David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive Remembered

To coincide with the release of Mulholland Drive's 4K restoration, Robert Bright looks back at Lynch's masterpiece through the lens of film noir and the city of Los Angeles itself

No More Complex Pleasure Than Thought: Lina Hermsdorf

Alice Woodhouse explores the fictional worlds of Lina Hemsdorf, both offline – at Stoke Newington's Rowing Gallery – and on

Why Live Music On British TV Needs More Than Just Jools

With the 50th series of Later... with Jools Holland underway, TV is in dire need of more than just boogie woogie, says Michael Hann

Christian Eede On Actress’ AZD

In Darren Cunningham's fifth album as Actress, following a period in which many thought he had retired the project, Christian Eede finds the producer sounding refreshed and more open than ever before

In A Trance: Truss & Tessela’s Overmono Interviewed

Tessela and Truss discuss their unorthodox approach to sampling, as well as their relationship with techno, following the release of the brothers' second collaborative EP as Overmono

British Sea Power

Let The Dancers Inherit The Party

“Time Doesn’t Feel Like A Linear Progression” – Moor Mother Interviewed

Ahead of her OFF festival performance in Poland this Summer, Moor Mother tells Liz Aubrey about making music in the moment, fighting gentrification and finding her own path through history

Beyond The Horizon: Yossarians Interviewed

The frontman of the intensely driven Yossarians tells all to Patrick Clarke ahead of a rare, and 'hernia-inducing' live set at this weekend's Fat Out Festival

Music As Mountain Railroad: Jeb Loy Nichols’ Favourite Records

Musician and crate-digger extraordinaire Jeb Loy Nichols tells the stories behind the stops on his musical railroad, from a deep friendship with Adrian Sherwood and the heroes of Muscle Shoals that led to a love of bluegrass, country, reggae and soul

Learning To Love Stereo: Hearing The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s With New Ears

Pete Paphides goes to Abbey Road to listen to the new anniversary edition of Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band and marvels at the charge of the "psychedelic light brigade" that is hearing the tweaked versions of songs

Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed

As Ray Davies prepares for the launch of the next phase of his colossal Americana project, Patrick Clarke speaks to the Kinks frontman on America, Britain, and why he's never voted.

“The Band Moves As Slowly As The Riffs” – An Interview With Khünnt

Not just a rude-sounding name and a vital umlaut, this Newcastle band make some of the most elephantine ultra-sludge noise metal you’ll hear. They’re playing a rare gig at Desertfest soon, too. Noel Gardner has a word

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1 Thing: April’s R&B Reviewed By Tara Joshi

What exactly do we categorise as R&B in 2017? Tara Joshi considers the expansion of the genre, alongside some of the best releases from the past two months

Gluttonous Maximus: Lone Taxidermist Get Wet & Messy In Manchester

Natalie Sharp, aka Lone Taxidermist, is bringing a hellish & surreal vision of cake sitting, giant cream squirting vaginas and luxurious pop to Manchester this weekend...

People Are People: Martin Gore On Brexit & Finding Acceptance In The UK

As Depeche Mode’s principal songwriter looks forward to playing in front of 70,000 people in their biggest ever UK show at the London Stadium, Tim Burrows talks to him about new album Spirit, his Essex roots and what it feels like to grow up as a British European

On The Edge: Michelle Williams Gamaker And Julia Kouneski

The exhibition Concrete Jungle at Annka Kultys Gallery, Bethnal Green, features the work of Tamar Guimarães alongside films by Michelle Williams Gamaker And Julia Kouneski, all equally inspired by Lygia Clark and Oscar Niemeyer

Fail Better: The Music Of The Future

In an extract from his new book, The Music of the Future, published by Repeater Books, Robert Barry considers the possibilities of a criticism that shares the qualities of music and the reasons why that idea might not always be welcome

Colouring Out: Queer British Art At The Tate

Exploring Tate Britain's survey of Queer British Art from 1861 to 1967

Father John Misty

Pure Comedy

A Quiet Passion: The Problem Of Poetry On Film

To coincide with today's release of Emily Dickinson biopic A Quiet Passion, Tom Duggins takes a look back at the many presentations of poetry in cinema, from the sublime to the ridiculous

Anniversary Feature: Wings of Honneamise Remembered

30 years after it first screened, Hiroyuki Yamaga's Wings Of Honneamise remains just as ambitious and beguiling as ever. Dave Hamilton-Smith takes a look back at this flawed but significant anime classic

Times For Revulsion: Richard Dawson Talks Peasant With Michael Hann

Richard Dawson sits down with Michael Hann to discuss discord, place and politics as he connects the middle ages with the strange times of now on new album Peasant. Ogre video stills courtesy of Nigel John, sea portrait by Sally Pilkington. Richard Dawson plays this year's Green Man Festival.

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