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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

Fire!

She Sleeps, She Sleeps

Full Clip: January’s Hip Hop Albums & Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Combining his Tape Adapter mixtape round-up with his album roundup for the first time ever, Gary Suarez comes through with a supersized new column stuffed with highly caloric rap reviews

Dark Jester: The Strange World Of… Ulver

Cult experimental Norwegian rock band Ulver have just released the largely improvised live album ATGCLVLSSCAP. Josh Gray picks the brains of band leader Kristoffer Rygg in an attempt to trace their ever-changing and incomparable evolution

Cultural Capital: Can London Afford To Price Out Its Artists?

At the London Art Fair, a panel discussion between artist Emma Hart, curator Daniel Herrmann, gallerist Fabio Altamura, critic Ben Luka, and the GLA’s Kirsten Dunne asks how artists can afford to go on living in country’s capital

Your Letter Is Only The Start Of It: Jim’ll Paint It For You

Ever laughed at finely honed Paint images of Ian Botham battling Storm Troopers or Andrew Marr bursting, be-ribboned from a layer cake? You’ve probably encountered the work of Jim’ll Paint It, the artist for whom no commission is too strange

Roly Porter

Third Law

Rigour And Play: Laurie Anderson’s Favourite Films

On a recent visit to London the performance artist, director and musician took time out to talk about her 13 favourite films with Mat Colegate

Vague Terrains: Rockfort On In Paradisum & Françoise Hardy

David McKenna unpacks In Paradisum’s new ‘French Industrial’ series, the debut album from rapper KillASon and Françoise Hardy reissues

The Lead Review: Luke Turner On Suede’s Night Thoughts

"Everything is always going to be with a sense of drama." Brett Anderson's swapped crack for nappies, but the uncynical passion of years gone by is still present, argues Luke Turner. But is this the best Suede album yet?