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Tresor 25 Years: Techno, Canonisation & The Future Of The Underground

At the institutions twenty-fifth birthday celebrations Maria Perevedentseva considers what happens to the future of the underground when its past is canonised. (Photographs by Camille Blake)

Injustice For All: The Terminal Man Revisited

James DC revisits Mike Hodges' and Michael Crichton's sci-fi paranoia classic, The Terminal Man

Sam Coomes

Bugger Me

Vince Clark & Paul Hartnoll

2Square

Lead Review: Wyndham Wallace On Marconi Union’s Ghost Stations

In the Manchester trio's ninth album in thirteen years, Wyndham Wallace finds an album that may not stand in protest of offer itself as a cure to the looming dark, but excels as a sonic space of shelter

Musical Memoir: Kathleen Hanna’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of The Julie Ruin's new album, Hit Reset, last month, the musician, activist and founding member of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre talks Milene Larsson through 13 favourite records that changed her life

Rattle

Rattle

Merzbow / Keiji Haino / Balazs Pandi

An Untroublesome Defencelessness

Les Harry’s

GGOTS

Songs Of The ‘Flesh – The Strange World Of… Justin Broadrick

Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett talks to Birmingham extreme music legend Justin Broadrick about his three decade plus career of innovation

Eric Clapton & Enoch Powell To Morrissey: Race In British Music Since ’76

During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades later, with Morrissey making offensive comments about Sadiq Khan and Britain reeling from Brexit, David Stubbs asks if anything has changed

Music For A Purpose: KPM And The History Of Library Music

It's the music we hear more than nearly anything else, but rarely know who made it. Bobby Barry tracks down some of the people who made the library music that became some of our favourite TV and film themes

The Bird Is The Word: Milhões De Festa Reviewed

Do you want to run an amazing cross-genre, challenging festival? No problem. All you need is giant chickens, a swimming pool and fearless programming. Mat Colegate and John Doran reap the hairy caged whirlwind and report back with their findings

The Lay Of The Land: Weird Possibility In The English Countryside

Aliya Whiteley, author of The Arrival of Missives, examines the role of the English countryside in weird and speculative fiction, du Maurier to Fowles, and wonders why the landscape holds such potent possibility

Verfreundungseffekt: On Being ‘Non-Native’ & An Interview With Marta Dziurosz

In August's edition of her literature in translation column, Jen Calleja considers the rising tide of xenophobia legitimatised by Brexit, the gathering popularity of Polish culture (from the written word to recorded sound), and speaks to English-to-Polish translator Marta Dziurosz. (Illustration by Richard Phoenix)

A Shed Of One’s Own: Supernormal Takes Art To The Bottom Of The Garden

With Supernormal Festival taking place this weekend in Oxfordshire, Craft/Work spoke to Eastville Project Space, Georgia Horgan, Bristol Experimental and Expanded Film, and Matt Copson about their projects for the festival's artist sheds

Something Like An Autobiography: The Late Films Of Akira Kurosawa

Louie Freeman looks at how, following a personal crisis later in his life, Akira Kurosawa’s film making style and the meanings behind his films changed dramatically to provide a fitting ending to his career.

Pure Self-Indulgence: The Early Years Interviewed

Ahead of their Supernormal appearance this weekend, Joe Clay speaks to the prodigal outer fringes rock band who have recently returned

I’m A Freak Baby

Various

Compton White

Compton White

Dinosaur Jr.

Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not

Fanatic Energy: Flowdan’s Favourite Records

Following the release of the grime MC's new album, Disaster Piece, he talks Mollie Zhang through 13 records, from N.W.A to Lexxus, stopping by Shy FX, DJ Krust and Vanilla Ice, that he blames for getting him into music

Cosmic Pessimism: An Interview With Jute Gyte

Pavel Godfrey set out to talk to the black metal and electronic musician Adam Kalmbach about his recent album Perdurance and instead got round to covering philosophy, Nietzsche and honing an anti-Romantic world view

Let’s Eat Grandma

I, Gemini

Angry Fun: An Interview With Tacocat

Following Lost Time's release earlier this year, John Freeman catches up with the Seattle band's singer Emily Nokes to find out why their sparkling third album is driven by a desire for satire and rooted in deep-down rage

Asher Levitas

Lit Harness

Nick Hudson

Ganymede In A State Of War

Jherek Bischoff

Cistern

Hoofus & IX Tab

The Blow Vol. 1

Soundheads vs Syn-aesthetes: August’s Rum Music by Russell Cuzner

A wave of synaesthesia leaves Russell Cuzner’s senses working overtime as he reads, sees, feels and is touched by the latest in outsider audio from David Toop, Valerio Tricoli, Andrew Liles, Claire M Singer and more. Homepage photo courtesy of Fabio Lugaro

Living City Plan: Laura Oldfield Ford At Grand Union, Birmingham

Laura Oldfield Ford's project for the Grand Union gallery explores the psychic resonances of the new Birmingham

Mary Lattimore And Jeff Zeigler

Music Inspired By Philippe Garrel’s Le Révélateur