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Swans

The Glowing Man

Folklore Tapes: A Rum Music Special By Joseph Burnett

In this sepcial edition of our column charting music's most outlying regions, Joseph Burnett explores the ethos and aesthetic of Folklore Tapes

Steve Gunn

Eyes On The Lines

The Invisible

Patience

A Sense Of Urgency: WALL Interviewed

WALL's debut EP is a set of stark post-punk tracks riddled with the pressures of striving to carve a place for yourself in the metropolis. They tell Gary Kaill why they're taking a "mind over matter" approach to moving forward

A New England? Billy Bragg On The EU And Current Affairs

In a ten point agenda, Billy Bragg talks to Joel McIver about Brexit, Trump, Boris and the importance of remaining optimistic amid political chaos

Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Nails’ You Will Never Be One Of Us

Digging into their third album in seven years, Noel Gardner finds Nails on focused and punishing form – delivering an unapologetic treatise on elitism and an unmixed, streamlined and unrelenting record of distilled extreme metal

Music Of The Spheres: Rhys Chatham’s Favourite Albums

The veteran avant-garde composer picks records by Morton Subotnick, Charlemagne Palestine and Maryanne Amacher and more to tell Danny Riley how his music, including new album Pythagorean Dream, has evolved

The Healing Process: Dave Okumu Of The Invisible Interviewed

Patrick Clarke meets Dave Okumu of The Invisible to talk endurance and commitment. Band portraits courtesy of Phil Sharp

A Queer Continent? On Masculinity & Australia’s Queer Origin Stories

The popular image of the Australian male might be a somewhat macho and brawny one but, as Alan Weedon argues here, there's always been an at times rather erotic queer current lurking below the surface

Maarja Nuut

Une Meeles

Olga Bell

Tempo

Virtually Reality: An Interview With Odonis Odonis

John Freeman catches up with the Canadian trio to find out why their brutal third album, Post Plague, which you can stream in full below, was inspired by the technology-enhanced relationships of the very near future

Journey To The Treasure House: Talking Road Trips With Cats Eyes

As Cats Eyes release their sumptuous second album, Luke Turner speaks to Faris Badwan and Rachel Zeffira about a journey through Canadian wildfires to a place of strange rocks and honesty

I Know It’s Overrated: The Queen Is Dead Turns 35

In the three decades since its release, The Smiths' The Queen Is Dead has repeatedly been hailed as the band's crowning achievement, and regularly features in lists of the greatest albums ever made. Lifelong Smiths fan Simon Price, however, is not so sure

Columnus Metalicus: June’s Heavy Metal By Pavel Godfrey

Fire up the BBQ and crack open a beer, Summer is here and it's time for Death Fortress, Jute Gyte, Kvelertak and Nails, says Pavel Godfrey

Formalism On Acid: Mary Heilmann At The Whitechapel Gallery

Looking at Pictures, the Whitechapel Gallery’s major new show of works by Mary Heilmann presents the first major UK survey of this important American artist

Nuclear Semiotics: Guan Xiao At The ICA

At Guan Xiao’s ICA show, Augustin Macellari finds puzzles, totems, and resonant symbolisms

Various

Close To The Noise Floor

His Friend Electric: Gary Numan And The MOOG

Backstage at the most recent edition of Moogfest, Gary Numan talked to DJ Pangburn about his four decade-long love affair with synthesizers. Photographs by Jeffrey Delannoy courtesy of Moogfest

Huerco S.

For Those Of You Who Never Have (And Also Those Who Have)

Active Listening: An Interview With Molly Nilsson

A prolific self-releasing artist playing a rare festival set at Field Day, the Swedish songwriter tells Patrick Clarke why she'd rather you discovered her music by "weird coincidence" or YouTube marathon than label publicity

Lead Review: Ben Cardew On Floorplan’s Victorious

On Robert Hood's latest outing as Floorplan, Ben Cardew finds the minimal techno luminary still unafraid to be difficult, but geared more heavily than ever toward a rewarding sense of out-and-out fun as well as funk

Human Dialogue: An Interview With Moa Pillar

Fedor Pereverzev tells Nikita Velichko about journeying from Moscow to the Caucasus to see how possible it was for a cultural exchange to take place between a modern electronic artist and traditional folk musicians

Energy Capture: Byetone’s Favourite Albums

The producer and co-founder of Raster-Noton talks Christian Eede through a "rock-oriented" selection of his favourite records as the pioneering German electronic music label celebrate two decades of operations

Dexys

Let The Record Show: Dexys Do Irish And Country Soul

Cat’s Eyes

Treasure House

Paul McCartney Was The Best Beatle – Fact, By Jeremy Allen

Jeremy Allen goes to watch Macca live in Paris and ponders the changing perceptions of Lennon and McCartney

Euro 96 20 Years On: Gazza, UKIP, Brexit – Where Are We Now?

Phil Harrison looks back 20 years to Euro 96 and all that, just to ask, "How far have we actually travelled since then?"

Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids

We Be All Africans

Remembering Muhammad Ali

Now that he has gone, says David Stubbs, it is time that we rescued the legacy of Muhammad Ali back from those who would cast him merely as a source of feel good memes or slogans

An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green

As well as being a true genius of Detroit techno, Robert Hood is an ordained pastor. Here, Luke Turner conducts a conversation on Christianity, politics and music between Hood and the Reverend Alan Green (NO NOT THAT REV AL GREEN) of St John On Bethnal Green Church, London.