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Don’t You Be Afraid To Lie By Me: The Strange World Of… Bert Jansch

Folk at its rawest is often bloody, uncompromising stuff, and Bert Jansch was one of its magical practitioners. Add fiery guitar-playing, a voice hewn from Edinburgh stone, original songs full of lyrics fabout the darkest sides of life, and you get one of music's most fascinating characters, argues Jude Rogers

The NME Celebrates Rock & Roll’s 50th Birthday

We've got an exclusive look at NME's 50 Years Of Rock & Roll issue, available outside of your train station this Wednesday...

Round Them Up Cowgirl: March Exhibition Previews

Craft/Work's March exhibition previews include new shows from Steven Claydon and Simon Starling plus films about Battersea Power Station and Fukushima

Turning The Wurm: How I Became A Sculpture (For One Minute)

Craft/Work heads to the Tate Modern to become, just for a moment, a One Minute Sculpture by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm

Andrew Weatherall

Convenanza

Romantic Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Remembered

Agata Pyzik remembers the inflammatory Polish director, who died last week.

Last Thrash: Metallica’s Master of Puppets Turns 35

John Ridpath re-assesses Metallica's finest fifty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds

Relentless Working: An Interview With Sievehead

In the wake of last year's excellent debut LP, the Sheffield trio tell Noel Gardner why their hometown is a "hidden gem" on the UK punk scene, a community dedicated to forging a DIY atmosphere of apeshit-going gigs

A Special Relationship? Lancing The Rhetoric On US Visas For UK Artists

As SXSW approaches and British artists look down the back of the sofa for coins to be able to afford to go, artist manager Andy Inglis looks at some of the facts, figures and myths behind the torrid time many of our acts have getting across the Atlantic to sing for Uncle Sam.

The Lead Review: Leo Chadburn On Matmos’ Ultimate Care II

With Matmos' latest effort – a record constructed entirely from washing machine noises –released on Thrill Jockey last week, Leo Chadburn examines its explorations of sonic domesticity

Diminished Men

Vision In Crime

Hurtling Through The Void: Roly Porter’s Favourite Space Records

Following the release of Third Law, the producer talks Theo Darton-Moore through his favourite records associated with space travel and exploration, pieces of music that "look at things outside our own existence"

Brood Ma

Daze

Monolith And Mandala: The Strange World Of Kanye West

Brilliant curator, average rapper, master of ideas foiled by their execution — Karl Smith takes a walk through the strange world of Kanye West, the closest thing music has to an Ai Weiwei

Uninhibited Limitation: An Interview With Public Memory

Robert Toher, the Brooklyn-based musician and former Apse and ERAAS man, tells John Freeman why the stripped-down sound of his debut album was driven by a desire to stop "throwing the kitchen sink" into his music

The Middle Eastern And African Playlist By John Doran

John Doran presents this month’s playlist of Turkish funk, Egyptian mahraganat, Iranian synaesthetic techno and classic Moroccan field recordings

Kanye West

The Life Of Pablo

“Dancing For The World”: Stepping Inside Footwork

Adam Bychawski goes to a London dance studio in order to take a class in footwork and ends up learning about the whole Chicago subculture. Photographs by Josiah Bourguet

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For February By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath is back once again like a renegade master with this month's least classifiable music on magnetic tape, not to mention his most recent radio show

Archeologies Of The Future: Michael Joo’s Radiohalo At Blain|Southern

Craft/Work talks to Michael Joo about his new show at Blain|Southern in London and how to calculate the energy expenditure on the way to enlightenment

Behold! February’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With social commentary, introspection, relationships, horror and Boyzone there’s something for everyone in Pete Redrup & co’s selection of comics this month

Meat Market: The Symbolic Sabotage Of Jeremy Hutchison

From stowaways disguised as consumer goods to sabotaging circuits of affective subjection, Jeremy Hutchison’s work in film, photomontage, and performance gnaws at the gristle of consumer capitalism

Winkie

Come To My Party

Travelogues: An Interview With Deepchord

Following the release of his Ultraviolet Music LP last year, Rod Modell talks to Theo Darton-Moore about finding synths boring, forging music for travel, mental and physical, and moving away from the techno world

The Lead Review: Lee Arizuno On Animal Collective’s Painting With

With Animal Collective's tenth studio album out tomorrow, Lee Arizuno explores the latest and most disappointing of offerings from "Little Donkey, Hello Kitty and Crazy Frog".

Nonkeen

The Gamble

Bombarded With Asteroids: Richard Hawley’s Favourite Albums

Before he heads off on a tour of the UK tomorrow, the Sheffield singer-songwriter and quiffsman takes Sharon O'Connell through the rock & roll, blues and rockabilly albums that shaped his early listening

Oranssi Pazuzu

Värähtelijä

Rangda

The Heretic’s Bargain

Not Man Vs. Woman: Reykjavíkurdætur Interviewed

Before they play their hometown for Sonar Reykjavík, the rap collective tell Karl Smith about providing a platform for empowerment, getting turned away from hip-hop nights and fending off adolescent cucumber volleys

This Heat

This Heat/Deceit/Health And Efficiency EP

Final Cut

Deep Into The Cut (Reissue)