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Lead Review: Karl Smith On Jambinai’s A Hermitage

In Korean post-rock trio Jambinai's latest offering, Karl Smith finds both a powerful hope for the future of a stagnating genre and a worthwhile exploration of our modern malice and malaise

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The Capsule

Nesting Behaviour: An Interview With Mothers

With the Athens, Georgia band's debut, When You Walk A Long Distance You Are Tired, Kristine Leschper's candid songs have become full-blown genre-hopping indie. They tell Luke Cartledge about the evolution

About The Heart: Greg Fox Of Guardian Alien’s Favourite Albums

Before he takes part in no fewer than three performances at Roskilde festival next week, the Guardian Alien drummer, Liturgy man and prolific collaborator guides Tristan Bath through his top 13 records

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Colliding Contours

Spool’s Out: June’s Cassettes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

King of the magnetic tape, Tristan Bath carries on in his quest to bring you the best underground music from around the globe and in doing so discovers his best cassette ever

The Journey & The Destination: An Interview With Hawthonn

The Leeds duo combine folk with electronics, geographical data with fox-bone rattle to create haunted dreamworlds of sound. Following a new release, Sea-Spiral Spirit, they unravel their unique processes with Russell Cuzner

Download 2016: Peace, Love and Babymetal

JR Moores is pleased to discover a Download Festival crowd in awe to the thrash/pop mash-up of The Fox God's disciples. All opinions contained herein are the author's own... especially those concerning wrasslin'

The Strange World Of… Prince’s Minneapolis

Lifelong fan John Freeman travels to Minneapolis to visit the places that made Prince the city’s most iconic artist. All photographs by the author/ Captain Randy

An Event Not An Appearance: Bridget Riley, Venice And Beyond

Amongst the hypnotic straight lines of Sheffield Graves Gallery’s Bridget Riley show, Sam Gregory finds an innovative response to the city’s straitened circumstances

Behold! June’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With more UK small press, unconventional art, a 50 year work-in-progress and surreal gag cartoons, there’s something for everyone in June’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & co

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The Glowing Man

Folklore Tapes: A Rum Music Special By Joseph Burnett

In this sepcial edition of our column charting music's most outlying regions, Joseph Burnett explores the ethos and aesthetic of Folklore Tapes

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The Invisible

Patience

A Sense Of Urgency: WALL Interviewed

WALL's debut EP is a set of stark post-punk tracks riddled with the pressures of striving to carve a place for yourself in the metropolis. They tell Gary Kaill why they're taking a "mind over matter" approach to moving forward

A New England? Billy Bragg On The EU And Current Affairs

In a ten point agenda, Billy Bragg talks to Joel McIver about Brexit, Trump, Boris and the importance of remaining optimistic amid political chaos

Lead Review: Noel Gardner On Nails’ You Will Never Be One Of Us

Digging into their third album in seven years, Noel Gardner finds Nails on focused and punishing form – delivering an unapologetic treatise on elitism and an unmixed, streamlined and unrelenting record of distilled extreme metal

Music Of The Spheres: Rhys Chatham’s Favourite Albums

The veteran avant-garde composer picks records by Morton Subotnick, Charlemagne Palestine and Maryanne Amacher and more to tell Danny Riley how his music, including new album Pythagorean Dream, has evolved

The Healing Process: Dave Okumu Of The Invisible Interviewed

Patrick Clarke meets Dave Okumu of The Invisible to talk endurance and commitment. Band portraits courtesy of Phil Sharp

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

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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

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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