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Wreath Lectures 2016: This Was The Year That Did Not Happen

Robert Barry kicks off the 2016 Wreath Lectures by casting his mind back over the past 11 months and asking if, given how utterly rancid and appalling everything has been, the year actually happened at all

Born To Rune: Enslaved On The History Of Enslaved

Enslaved founder Ivar Bjørnson speaks to Dan Franklin about the story of Enslaved, the information they take from ancient Norse culture, and what he thinks, two decades on, of Varg Vikernes and the violence that engulfed the black metal scene. Photos by Peter Beste, Ole Kristian Olsen, Mirjam Vikingstad

Aisha Orazbayeva

Telemann Fantasias

Buttholes And Bandanas: An Interview With Bruxa Maria


Gill Dread's latest project makes an unruly, ferocious racket that some have branded "noise punk". It's inspired by her Butthole Surfers upbringing, the 2011 riots, uncaring hipsters, intolerant atheists and working as a van driver for other bands, she tells JR Moores. Photo thanks to Jose Ramon Caamaño

Northern Uproar: Tanya Tagaq’s Favourite Albums

With the release of her phenomenal new album, Retribution, the Inuit throat singer talks to John Freeman about the albums that make her laugh and cry. And laugh some more.

The Month’s Electronic Music: Selective Reflection

As 2016 comes close to its end, Christian Eede looks back over the year via some of the best mixes, while reviewing new releases from Laksa, rRoxymore, Kassem Mosse, Beneath and more

PUNK’S NOT DEAD: An Essay & Film By Bill Drummond

Bill Drummond was asked to appear on telly to talk about Joe Corré burning a load of punk junk. Instead he's made a 60 second film and written the text below about why the true spirit of punk is not a nostalgic archive, but an energy that will never die. Photo by Tracey Moberly

On Coming To Metal In Middle-Age: Neurosis Live At Koko

Tariq Goddard didn't realise that he liked metal until he went to see Neurosis live at Koko and found their "songs of engagement and endurance" chimed with his own advancing years. Photos © Benedetto Manzella for the Heathen Harvest Periodical, 2016

Omar Rodríguez-López

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Full Clip: November’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed by Gary Suarez

Whether you rep the old school, the new school, or were homeschooled, our resident rap columnist comes through with the latest straight outta America.

Ocean Colour Scene’s Moseley Shoals 25 Years On, By Pete Paphides

Ocean Colour Scene have been unfairly maligned over the years, argues Pete Paphides, as he revisits the album that brought the band back from the brink

“People Need To Fucking Wake Up” Moby & Steve Ignorant In Conversation

We got Moby and Steve Ignorant together to discuss everything that's wrong with the world in this age of Brexit and Trump and they ended up deciding to save us all by getting naked. Photos by Kim Ford and Melissa Danis, put together by Zac Leeks

Virginia Wing

Forward Constant Motion

Uptown Top Ranking: New Dot Art Domain Launches

Pondering the creation of a new top level domain name for the artworld: .art

Verfreundungseffekt: Once More with Feeling — Sophie Collins’ Currently & Emotion

One of the TLS' books of the year, Jen Calleja explores Sophie Collins' translation as activism through her recent Test Centre anthology, Currently & Emotion, and discusses contemporary translation, readership and the pleasures and pains of putting together a book. (Portrait of Vahni Capildeo by Richard Phœnix)

Mondo Generator: Sheldon Renan On The Killing Of America

Ian Schultz interviews Sheldon Renan, director of the notorious mondo movie, The Killing Of America

Kurosawa’s RUN!: Creepy Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan on director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's latest addition to the horror genre, the excellent Creepy

Undermine The Whole System: Gee Vaucher In Conversation

With her new exhibition, Introspective, just opened at Firstsite, Colchester, Gee Vaucher of Crass talks to curator Stevphen Shukaitis about punk, politics, and painting

Nina Kraviz

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Aural Obliteration: The Bug’s Sirens At Illuminations Festival

At this year's Illuminations Festival in London, Mollie Zhang gets immersed in Kevin Martin's Sirens project and considers the power of all-encompassing sonic obliteration as therapy in a world of immediacy

Fig Out! Rockfort Interviews Léonore Boulanger

David McKenna talks to the unconventional singer and her band about their wonderfully puzzling and puzzle-like third album Feigen Feigen and presents a new mix for November

“If You’re Taking This Seriously You’re In The Wrong Theatre”: Paul Schrader Interviewed

Ian Schultz talks to Paul Schrader, director of Mishima and American Gigolo and writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, about his latest film, the Nicolas Cage starring Dog Eat Dog

Brian Coney On Thee Oh Sees’ An Odd Entrances

In the San Francisco band's eighteenth record — under the third variation of their name — Brian Coney finds an album not lacking in Thee Oh Sees' trademark sound and fury, but benefiting from a newfound sense of restraint

The Kids Are Alt-Right? The Hippie Energies Behind Brexit & Trump

Tim Burrows argues that the terrifying rise of angry, right-wing ideology is fuelled by the very same desires to 'stick it to the man' that fired up the 60s counterculture.

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Telepath

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Guardians

Towards Escapism: Dasha Rush Interviewed

Theo Darton-Moore travels to Unsound in Krakow to see Dasha Rush's new collaborative audio-visual exploration of black holes, diving in to discuss why techno is art & her love of language and poetry

Sorry There’s No Punk! Captain Sensible’s Damn’ Favourite LPs

Forty years after The Damned released New Rose they're currently touring the UK. The genial Captain Sensible got in touch to tell us about his favourite LPs, from Stereolab to the Bee Gees, Soft Machine to Felt and Jimi Hendrix. Damned live photo by Dod Morrison.

The Sweet Release Of Death

The Sweet Release Of Death

In Search Of A Higher Plane: Le Guess Who? Festival 2016

With performances from The Ex — as well as their spotlighting of Ethiopian music in Fendika and Zerfu Demissie — and Brazil's Elza Soares, at he tenth anniversary year of Utrecht's Le Guess Who?, Noel Gardner finds a festival that has shifted its weight and broadened its vision in search of more. (Photographs by Tim van Veen, Jan Rijk and Jelmer de Haas)

Why Fabric’s Reopening Is A Pyrrhic Victory & The War Is Not Won

fabric will soon reopen under a new set of stringent licensing conditions after a deal was reached between the club, police and local authority. Here, Christian Eede looks at why the club's concessions for reopening might have come at a greater cost than they were worth

Columnus Metallicus: Bleak November’s Best Metal, By Louise Brown

Louise Brown manages to drag herself out of the pit of disappear this terrible month has pushed us all into to find hope in the rancid art and galumphing noise of Witchwood, Robert Pehrsson's Humbucker, Testament, The Eddy Malm Band, Spiritus Mortis, Tower, T.O.M.B