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A Police Utopia: Jimmy Cauty’s Aftermath Dislocation Principle

The KLF's Jimmy Cauty discusses taking his dystopian model village on a tour of the sites of great riots from the past, present, and future

Tripping The Light Fantastic: Joachim Koester At Turner Contemporary

At Margate’s Turner Contemporary, an exhibition by Joachim Koester meets the psychedelic undercurrents in J.M.W. Turner’s own colour beginnings

Surgeon

From Farthest Known Objects

Hypnotic Loops: An Interview With Ulrika Spacek

Two school friends realise they both write music, record an LP that recalls prime Television and Pavement in a house called KEN and play it at their Oysterland night. Suzie McCracken investigates this moniker mania

The Lead Review: Ed Power On Not Waving’s Animals

With Alessio Natalizia's eighth Not Waving record out on Diagonal Records tomorrow, Ed Power traces the influences that make up this LP of "dazzling communiques", from neurologist Oliver Sacks to Italian horror director Dario Argento

Father Figures: An Interview With Field Music

John Freeman heads up to Sunderland to eat falafel and meet with the Brewis brothers to find out why the sinewy pop of Field Music’s new album Commontime was inspired by fatherhood, Hall & Oates and hatred for a certain brand of 4x4 car

Conrad Keely

Original Machines

Anthems: Laibach’s Favourite Albums

As the musical wing of Slovenia's NSK collective continue their tour presenting songs from The Sound Of Music, the group's Ivan Novak gets licence to pick 13 albums that inspired them prior to forming Laibach

The Bone Machine: Gum Takes Tooth Interviewed

Previewing their latest video for ‘Bone Weapon’ Jussi Brightmore and Tom Fug chat to Matt Ridout about the ethos and technology that drive Gum Takes Tooth

Gate

Saturday Night Fever

Kerridge

Fatal Light Attraction

Boundless Sounds: An Interview With Solar Bears

The experimental electronic music duo tell DJ Pangburn about creating a sonic collage of micro-samples from all around the world on their latest record, Advancement. Plus, we get a first look at the video for Wild Flowers

Why Study Art When You Can Make It: The Strange World Of… This Heat

40 years after This Heat’s debut performance Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward are playing together for the first time since 1982 at London’s Café Oto. To celebrate we look at their fresh and forceful music that proved to be so far ahead of its time. All band photographs by Lesley Evans, courtesy of This Heat

Don Cherry & Jon Appleton

Don & Jon

Waclaw Zimpel

Lines

The Month’s Electronic Music: Casting Ahead

Christian Eede kicks off the year in electronic music with a look at what may lie ahead in 2016, particularly for the UK's clubs, alongside releases from Shanti Celeste, Manchester's Meandyou collective and the South Africa-based proponents of the emerging Gqom sound

Driff-Raff: Happy Mondays, Bummed & Driffield

Soldiers, tequila and asti-spumanti slammers, ecstasy, guns, LSD, brandy and waitresses. The good, good, good, good, good, good, double-good recording of Bummed by the Happy Mondays as dimly remembered by Shaun Ryder, Bez and others and told to Daniel Dylan Wray

Round ’Em Up Let’s Go: February Exhibition Previews

February's coming attractions include shows by Harmony Korine, Mark Wallinger, and Dinh Q. Lê plus a series of conversations, dinnertimes, and works-in-progress which render "the space between the works … as important as the objects themselves."

An Imaginary Menagerie: Christiana Soulou’s Drawings After Borges

Christiana Soulou's drawings, at Sadie Coles Gallery in Soho, take inspiration from Jorge Luis Borges' bizarre taxonomy of fantastic creatures

Youth Gone Wild: The Early Films Of Paolo Sorrentino

As Paolo Sorrentino's new film, Youth, is released in the cinemas, James Ubaghs picks out three of the most interesting of the Italian director's early works

“Fix Your F*cking Face!” The Film Roles Of Mark Kozelek

To Mark his cameo in Paolo Sorrentino's Youth, Oliver Lunn looks back over the acting roles of Red House Painter, Sun Kil Moon-er and arch wind-up-merchant Mark Kozelek

Bloc Party

Hymns

The Lead Review: Tristan Bath On Ulver’s ATGCLVLSSCAP

Tristan Bath explores the life lessons to be learned from Ulver's sprawling new album: the never-ending fruitfulness of group improvisation, and the art of metamorphosis

Megadeth

Dystopia

Suburban Guerrillas: Earl Brutus In Their Own Words

Jim Fry and Gordon King meet up to discuss the history of Earl Brutus and the reissue of Your Majesty... We Are Here and Tonight You Are The Special One. Julian Marszalek was on hand to take notes

New Generation: An Interview With Imarhan

The desert rock sextet talk to Richie Troughton about why their debut album represents a new wave of Algerian music, founded on Tuareg traditions but meshed with jazz, blues and influences gathered from further afield

Tindersticks

The Waiting Room

Personal Records: Eleanor Friedberger’s Favourite Albums

With her third solo record, New View, released last week and a UK tour imminent, the singer-songwriter and one half of The Fiery Furnaces talks Gary Kaill through the 13 records she's played most from start to finish

Brutalist Truths: Owen Hatherley Interviewed In Ten Songs

Architecture writer, Pulp essayist and ‘guilty nostalgist’ Owen Hatherley talks to Karen Shook about retro tat, George Orwell’s dreams, Wilfred Owen’s hair, Ken Loach’s Hovis-advert socialism and that bloody poster

Tortoise

The Catastrophist

No Longer Outsiders? On South Asian Representation In UK Culture

With the debate over #OscarsSoWhite coming to a head, it seems apt to remember that "diversity" isn’t about tokenism for its own sake. Through her experiences as a British South Asian, Tara Joshi considers the importance of representing non-stereotyped ethnic minorities in media, and why UK broadcasting needs to cop on

“Distance Is A Beautiful Thing”: An Interview With Love Cult

Before they play a special programme at this year's CTM Festival, the Russian duo and label owners talk to Nikita Velichko about the local scene, spontaneity and the benefits of having a studio in the forest