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Up The Pub! An Interview With Primitive Parts

The London trio tell Joe Clay about their no-frills post-punk, influenced by both Dr Feelgood and doomed video rental chains, and take in lyrical obscuring and plans for a new automotive playback format in the process

The Difficulty Of Love: King Midas Sound And Fennesz Interviewed

John Doran meets Christian Fennesz, Kiki Hitomi, Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin in Tilburg, NL, after their first ever live performance together at Incubate festival. They discuss their excellent new album Edition 1, the difficulty of romance, the nature of melancholy and their memories of rain

Mercury Rev

The Light In You

Philippe Petit

Multicoloured Shadows

Shakedown The Breakdown: Girl Band Get Serious

Ian Maleney talks to the Irish noiseniks about drinking Dave Grohl's ale and the serious story behind their surreal lyrics

Running Out Of Steam: Andy Mackay Of Roxy Music On Siren

David Chiu talks to the Roxy horn player and looks back at the legendary group’s highly ­regarded fifth record as it turns 45

Beyond The Bulbous Salutation: List Of The Lost Reviewed

Morrissey's debut novel is 118 pages of prose in not-ungenerously-sized type-face – but, whatever else it is, is it any good?

Enemy Invasion: The Double In Cinema

Cormac O'Brien examines the manifold uses and meanings of the double throughout cinema history

Pole

Wald

Dance Like It’s Ok: New Music From Netherlands, Belgium & Germany

Our Dutch Master Theo Ploeg returns with his ongoing search for the best new (electronic) music in The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium: to the lowlands and beyond! Portrait by Frank Egel

Dungen

Allas Sak

The Lead Review: Mick Middles On New Order’s Music Complete

As they release their most promising record in recent years, Mick Middles looks back at the tumultuous history of the Manchester group, examining the barrelling acrimony and the quiet influence of Mark Reeder

Violent Content: Medium Cool Reassessed

Robert Bright reflects on Haskell Wexler's still bitterly relevant film about media complicity, 'Medium Cool', which is out now on DVD and Blu-Ray

Columnfortably Numb: A New Psych Column By J.R. Moores

Homzom auteur J.R.Moores probes the Hubble Deep Field in search of psych (and noise rock) releases that you need to hear

Frog Eyes

Pickpocket's Locket

Sexwitch

Sexwitch

Destruction Unit

Negative Feedback Resistor

Bixiga 70

III

25 Years On: Raekwon’s Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Revisited

Angus Batey looks back into his archive of interviews with Raekwon in order to better understand this high water mark in mid-90s hip hop

Northern Uproar: An Interview With Autobahn

John Freeman meets up with the Leeds-based post-punks to find out why a dark sense of humour, dry ice and finding a nice spot to depart this mortal coil are at the heart of their debut album, Dissemble

Nicolas Godin

Contrepoint

Big Brave

Au De La

Girl Band

Holding Hands With Jamie

Various Artists

C-ORE

Moulding Voices: Julia Holter’s Favourite Albums

From a girl group compilation heard in childhood to more recently discovered singer-songwriters and jazz via a medieval mass, the LA composer talks Gary Kaill through some key albums in her record collection

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & Hardcore For September

What is punk rock? asks Noel Gardner. Well, it turns out that punk rock is not punk rock; except when it is

Capital Realism: John Foxx And Iain Sinclair Hold Court

Overgrown, overground, rambling free, John Foxx and Iain Sinclair meet up for food to discuss their mutual obsession with London. Words by Emily Bick. Photographs by Al Overdrive

Kitchen’s Floor

Battle Of Brisbane

Various Artists

μ20

Various Artists

Heavenly 25

Talking Away: A-Ha On The Making Of Take On Me

Thirty-five years after a-Ha unveiled their debut, Hunting High & Low, Wyndham Wallace talks to the band about their life as young, starving artists, Hendrix’ ‘Hey Joe’, understanding three dimensional space, and the quest for the perfect ‘Take On Me’…

Raining Mud: Tom Araya Of Slayer Interviewed

Harry Sword talks to Tom Araya of Slayer about a life of trains, planes, automobiles and extreme aggression