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

Something in the hall goes click-click, as Gary Suarez reaches for a pile of hip hop LPs and his reviewer's BB Gun

Talent Not Gender: Babes In Toyland At Beaches Brew

Minnesotan power trio Babes in Toyland have reunited for their first dates in 20 years, encountering fans old and new in the UK, Europe and the USA. Kiran Acharya meets Maureen Herman and Lori Barbero in Italy to find a band – and festival – worth celebrating. Photography by Francesca Sara Cauli

Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe

I Declare Nothing

Neil Young

The Monsanto Years

Petal Machine Music: Hurts Live In Berlin, By Simon Price

In mainland Europe, Manchester synth duo Hurts are huge. On the eve of their third album Surrender, Simon Price sees them dazzle Berlin and shower it with flowers.

RP Boo

Fingers, Bank Pads And Shoe Prints

Style And Substance: An Interview With PINS

John Freeman meets up with two-fifths of PINS to find out how their storming new album Wild Nights was birthed in the desert and inspired by the bond of friendship

We Spoke Of ‘Was’ And ‘When’: Tony Visconti Interviewed

Legendary producer Tony Visconti has recently been revisiting one of his classic Bowie recordings, The Man Who Sold The World, with a tour and a live album. Simon Price asks him about the Dame, Bolan, Sparks, the Manics, and more

Three Poems By: Siobhan Bledsoe

New writing this week comes from Siobhan Bledsoe — incidentally also the author of the first-ever accepted poetry submission on this website —in the form of not one, not even two, but three poems and a selection of complimenting photographs (including one NSFW)

Out-selfing Will Self: An Interview With Austin Collings

Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers

Behold! June’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Sci-fi, sex, and superheroes! Lots of ace comics this month

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Hazy Euphoria: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2015

Gather some of the world's finest electronic musicians and DJs, scatter them around two gargantuan sites in Barcelona and fill in the gaps with electronic wristband-donning people slowly getting basted by Estrella and sunshine, and you've got Sónar 2015, one of the festival calendar's consummate highlights. Christian Eede and Laurie Tuffrey report back

45 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited

Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads

Beta Bandidos: Slow West Reviewed

Greg Thorpe reviews former Beta Band man John Maclean's debut feature film, Slow West

J. Butler

Memory

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For June By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath gets to grips with all of this month's best cassette releases. Uncredited Umfang live photograph courtesy of WeirdMagic.biz

Come To Terms: An Interview With Torres

Nashville-via-Brooklyn musician Mackenzie Scott's second album Sprinter is a bracingly honest and diverse record, which moves from howling rock grind to fractured introspection in addressing themes of mortality and loss. On her recent stop in the UK, she traced its roots with Alex Robert Ross

Coherent Sound Waves: Lorenzo Senni’s Favourite Albums

The trance pointillist condenses his musical biography into 13 all-time favourite albums in our latest artist-penned Baker's Dozen

Shiny Darkly

Little Earth

Days Of Wine And Roses: On The Road With Mudhoney

Once upon a time critics were often quick to say Mudhoney were over. Mark Andrews hangs out backstage for a wine or three with a band who are now having the last laugh. All photographs courtesy of Joan Vandenbossche

A Score For The Listener: June’s Rum Music With Russell Cuzner

Russell Cuzner just listens to music from the outer limits... because that's what he does

Committed With The Physical: An Interview With Prurient

Following the release of recent album Frozen Niagara Falls, Steven T. Hanley speaks to Prurient about vinyl fetishism, the displacement of live touring and past regrets

Muse

Drones

Beyond The Bullring: Reflections On Supersonic 2015

Birmingham is a tale of two cities: the commercial centre around the Bullring and the post-industrial zone of Digbeth, where Supersonic is held every year. Between ear-heartening encounters with the Bug and Flowdan, Gazelle Twin, Richard Dawson and Holly Herndon, Tim Burrows ponders the festival and its city

Saturated Energy: Mbongwana Star Interviewed

From Kinshasa, the debut album by the Central African band, is one of the year's finest. Richie Troughton finds out about capturing the sound of the Congolese capital on record through two generations of street musicians

I’m One Of 1000 UK Artists Boycotting Israel. Here’s Why

As Thurston Moore, Miss Lauryn Hill and Primus become the latest to cancel shows in Tel Aviv, British-Palestinian musician Samir Eskanda makes the case for the boycott, with contributions from Moore and Jean-Hervé Peron of Faust. Photos by Valerio Berdini

Mai Mai Mai

Πέτρα (Petra) EP

The Orb

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The Dying Of The Light: Gordon Moakes On Solar Race

Gordon Moakes pens a personal tribute to Eilidh Bradley and the rage of Solar Race

On Feminism & The Female Body In Kim Kardashian’s Selfish

Aimee Cliff considers the valuable and radical nature of Kim Kardashian's Selfish, the reclaiming of herself (and her Self) from the media, what it means to be a perfect feminist and whether that matters

Poisoned Intoxicant: Two Cinematic Portrayals Of The Female Monster

Philippa Snow examines the differing portrayals of female monsters in 'A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night' and 'Under The Skin'