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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.

The Vinyl Staircase: June In Record Buying Misery By John Doran

John Doran goes to Margate to visit the newly opened Transmission and casts his eyes over a box set by Cluster, appreciates the work of Pharaway Sounds and checks the 'new' Units LP... All photographs by author unless otherwise stated

Max Richter

Songs From Before

Coming Attractions: June Gallery Previews

The return of Craft/Work's monthly exhibition previews column heralds burning footballs and erased borders from Grear Patterson, Francis Alÿs, Wolfgang Tillmans, and more

Painting With The Light: Dan Flavin At Ikon

Twenty years after his death, the works of Dan Flavin are as illuminating as ever, finds Sam Gregory

Melvins

Basses Loaded

Infallible: Where Did Son Of Bazerk Go Wrong?

In the latest of his stellar hip hop retrospectives, Angus Batey looks back at one of rap's great lost albums, Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk, asking where did they go wrong and where are they today?

Black To Con: The Nice Guys Reviewed

Matt Packer revels in the assault and battery of Shane Black's latest dysfunctional bromance

And If You Need An Explanation: Manic Street Preachers interviewed

In 1996, Manic Street Preachers released Everything Must Go, the million-selling album that restarted their career after the trauma of losing Richey Edwards. Simon Price meets James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on the record's 20th anniversary to get the rationale behind the nostalgia, their memories of recording it, and the ultimate track-by-track guide to the album itself

Stian Westerhus

Amputation