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Horns Up Ya Shitters! Columnus Metallicus Is Back For February

Throw your horns towards the crepuscular frost bitten moon and say a mighty 'HAILS' to our interim metal reviewer, Tom Dare who looks over Megadeth, Anthrax, Dream Theater, Oranssi Pazuzu, Abbath and more

No Longer Lost: John Carpenter Interviewed

Horror master John Carpenter on his second non-soundtrack album, Lost Themes II, and performing his first ever live shows this at Primavera, ATP Iceland and New York ahead of English dates later in the year. Interview by Brian Coney

Action At A Distance: Leslie Deere’s Modern Conjuring

In the first of what will be a regular series of studio visits with artists, Craft/Work meets Leslie Deere to talk about her ongoing project for a Sound and Music embedded residency at Music Hackspace

Pierre Bastien

Blue As An Orange

Bert Jansch

Avocet (Reissue)

Complete Communion: Jazz Reviews For February With Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith bestrides the globe like a damn honking colossus, this month bringing us the best of Nordic jazz and deep cuts from other fine locales

Load Of Old Poo-l? Deadpool Reviewed

Mat Colegate on the début* cinematic outing for Marvel's 'Merc with a mouth' (contains slight spoilers) *His first with a mouth anyway

Straight Talking: An Interview With LIINES

The Mancunian trio meet up with John Freeman to find out how their ferocious post-punk was inspired, in part, by time spent on Alien Sex Fiend's tour bus and a collective desire to "stop screaming in the dark"

The Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Årabrot’s The Gospel

With the Norway group's seventh album out at the end of this month, Noel Gardner explores the inner workings of "probably the most eclectic-sounding Årabrot release to date"

Get Rich But Don’t Switch: Kano Interviewed

John Doran talks to the East London born and bred MC about the joy of brass, trying to heal old feuds and his growing social consciousness

Various Artists

Kombination Research 100

Nevermen

Nevermen

Za!

Loloismo

There Is A Light At The End Of The Tunnel: Therapy? Revisit Infernal Love

It cost the band their drummer, the support of the UK press and their major-label deal... yet twenty years after the peak of Britpop, Infernal Love looks like a lost classic of mid-90s rock, says Kiran Acharya

The Strange World Of… The Residents – Homer Flynn Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to The Residents' resident artist, Homer Flynn who has selected ten essential aspects to act as an overview to the band's bewildering four decade career

Breathless

Blue Moon

Emma Pollock

In Search Of Harperfield

Exploiting The Moment: An Interview With Blood Sport

They have created a new genre in aggro-beat and are splitting heads wide open on stage with their semi-improvised performances – as they release their second album, the Sheffield trio sit down with Daniel Dylan Wray

The Vinyl Staircase: Vertigo At The World’s Largest Record Fair

John Doran keeps on striding down the vinyl staircase; this month he alights at a crashed Borg spaceship in Utrecht containing four million LPs and singles. February's reissues include Erasure and African Headcharge

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