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Children Of Skem: An Interview With The Magnetic North

John Freeman travels to Skelmersdale with The Magnetic North and a small dog, to find out why the new town - and UK centre of the Transcendental Meditation movement - inspired their beautiful new album, Prospect Of Skelmersdale

Condemned To Vagrancy: The Strange World Of… Matmos

When you get that feeling, Matmos give you conceptual healing. Drew Daniel and Martin 'M.C.' Schmidt talk John Doran through the highlights of their career to date. Band portraits by Josh Sisk

How I Learned To Love Tony Blackburn, By Pete Paphides

After the recent sacking of Tony Blackburn by the BBC, Pete Paphides has the revelation that the guileless broadcaster was a prism through which he's charted his own life in pop

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Made In The Manor

The Strange World Of… Of Montreal By East India Youth

William Doyle looks at the singular journey taken by Of Montreal, who play Convergence Festival next week, and finds in Kevin Barnes a little sung hero

It’s Tricky: Run-DMC’s Raising Hell Revisited

Thirty years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the genre-bending crossover album that was so much more than an over-played Aerosmith cover version.

Verfreundungseffekt: A Question Of Humanity – Han Kang & An Interview With Deborah Smith

We have Deborah Smith to thank for Han Kang – and we are truly grateful. Fresh from winning an Arts Foundation Award, next month sees Smith launch a publishing house that will transform a literary landscape choked with diversity issues. (Portrait of Sangeeta Bandyopadhyay by Richard Phœnix)

The Territory Of The Book: An Interview With Alexandra Leykauf

With the release of her new artist book from Roma Publications, Berlin-based artist Alexandra Leykauf discusses time, landscape, and media

Mikael Seifu

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New Morning Comes: An Interview With Thomas Cohen

Ahead of his debut, Bloom Forever, the singer-songwriter tells Suzie McCracken about writing an album in the wake of loss, striking out on his own after his former band S.C.U.M and dealing with tragedy through humour

Shadow Of A Doubt: A Look Back At The Hitchcock/Truffaut Interviews

As a documentary on their famous series of interviews is released, Louie Freeman looks back at the Hitchcock/Truffaut meetings and asks if they were one of the greatest cinematic publicity campaigns of the 20th Century

Senate Mental Journey: Hail Caesar! Reviewed

Robert Bright reviews the Coen Brother's affectionate swipe at the 1950's Hollywood system

Kjetil Nernes Of Arabrot On Sex, Death & Living In A Church

As Arabrot release The Gospel, one of the albums of the year, his reverence Kjetil Nernes speaks to Luke Turner about the church that he calls home, and where his group record their thundering anthems to sex and death

Those Comedians That You Have Now: Stewart Lee Interviewed

Stewart Lee is back with another series of Comedy Vehicle. He tells Simon Price his thoughts on Lenny Bruce, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn, swimming through piss, Brexit and the pitfalls of being constantly misunderstood

The Lead Review: Rory Gibb On Fatima Al Qadiri’s Brute

The explorations of police brutality and state oppression on Fatima Al Qadiri's second album for Hyperdub are most effective when they're at their most subtle, writes Rory Gibb

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Champion Versions: Steve Mason’s Favourite Albums

With his new solo album, Meet The Humans, just released, the prolific musician and former Beta Band man gives Joe Clay a tour of his record collection, meandering through electro, hip-hop, punk and more

Columnfortably Numb: February’s Psych Reviews By JR Moores

Before he gets usurped by a hippy droid, JR Moores surveys the latest psych (and noise) rock releases

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Echtzeit

What A Heart Can Contain: An Interview With Amber Arcades

The latest signing to Heavenly's roster tells Patrick Clarke how a desire to have full creative control, a band of bluegrass-busking punks and a Dutch fairytale all played into the creation of her debut album, Fading Lines

Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Murder Ballads As Gangsta Rap Album

Dele Fadele looks back to The Bad Seeds album that has odd parallels with gangsta rap

Full Clip: This Month’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Gary Suarez returns to his monthly rap reviews beat armed with an ultralight beam and a laser sight

Jozef van Wissem

When Shall This Bright Day Begin

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

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Romantic Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Remembered

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

Last Thrash: Metallica’s Master of Puppets Revisited

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.