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Third Eye Of The Storm: The 13th Floor Elevators Live In Texas

Ben Graham wonders if the tornados and storms battering Austin's Levitation Festival are the work of time travellers heading to witness the return of true psychedelic pioneers The 13th Floor Elevators. Photos courtesy Briana Purser (group) and Roger Ho (jug)

Algiers

Algiers

Circle/Pharaoh Overlord

Pharaoh Overlord/Circle

Believe In A Land Of Love: New Order’s Low-Life 35 Years On

Julian Marszalek casts his mind back to teenage years in Slough to remember the record that saw New Order continue their transition from the monochrome of Joy Division to the bright lights of the 1980s dancefloor

Tape Adapter: May’s Hip-Hop Mixtapes Reviewed by Gary Suarez

This month Gary Suarez ponders the ever-thorny issue of the "institutional disadvantage" facing LGBT rappers, before considering new tapes by DT Blanco, B.I.C. (Bitches Is Crazy), Towkio, Rich Homie Quan and Cities Aviv

Verfreundungseffekt: Make The Call – Translation As Afterlife/Reincarnation

The latest instalment of Jen Calleja's Verfreundungseffekt column puts into play a game of Chinese Whispers on a poem by Sam Riviere — with help from Chrissy Williams, Laura Tenschert, Livia Franchini and Jack Underwood — considering the value and the possibilities of translating a translation, flipping Walter Benjamin the bird in the process. (Illustration by Richard Phœnix)

Two Poems By: Fawn Parker

New writing this week comes to you — via tQ, of course — from Montreal-based poet and editor Fawn Parker

Scorsese A Jolly Good Fella: Goodfellas 25 Years On

A quarter of a century since its release Robert Bright looks back at Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas and examines its legacy

Various Artists

Cherrystones Presents Critical Mass

The Damned

Damned Damned Damned/Music For Pleasure/Strawberries (Reissues)

Goatsnake

Black Age Blues

Something Potty In The State Of Denmark: Elsinor’s Click Reviewed

Tristan Bath heads to the Danish city of Helsingør, home of Hamlet's dad's castle, to try and stay up for 24 hours and watch music from Rhys Chatham, CTM, Ellen Fullman, Keiji Haino, Bjørn Svin, Carl Emil Carlsen and Lee "Scratch" Perry

Drawn From The Fall: Una Baines’ Comic On Dating Mark E Smith

Desperate Journalist’s Jo Bevan speaks to the former Fall/Blue Orchids member and artist Keith McDougall about their forthcoming book I’ll Be Your Mirror

Tug Of Yore: Things Learned At Helsinki’s Viva Erotica Festival

Saskia Vogel reports back from Helsinki's first ever 'Splendid Movie Orgy'. Photo by Saskia Vogel (NSFW)

Piercing Highs: Mondkopf’s Favourite Albums

Fittingly enough for a man who makes music of a decidedly bracing bent - be it the hulking techno of Mondkopf or the grindcore-inspired electronics of Extreme Precautions - French producer Paul Régimbeau's top 13 LPs are a suitably heavyweight suite. Brace yourself...

Kamasi Washington & More Of That Jazz In Complete Communion

Stewart Smith once again takes a long draught from the jazz chalice as his Complete Communion column looks at how Kendrick Lamar is spreading the jazz gospel as he reviews Kamasi Washington, Robert Glasper, Steve Coleman, Jack DeJohnette, Cactus Truck, Alex Ward Quintet and Kit Downes

More Raw Than Most: On Endless, London’s Most Crucial Party

Endless is the party incubating London's most exciting new producers, with the likes of Lexxi, Shanti and Kamixlo cocking a snook at barriers of genre. Seb Wheeler reports from a recent outing south of the Thames, and far outside convention

Ekoplekz

Reflekzionz

The Ngoni – Africa’s History: Bassekou Kouyaté Interviewed

Bassekou Kouyaté's new album Ba Power is a highlight of 2015. Here, he talks to Richie Troughton about family, collaboration, the difficult situation in Mali and the ngoni, one of the world's most ancient instruments

Lakker

Tundra

The Eccentronic Research Council

Johnny Rocket, Narcissist & Music Machine... I'm Your Biggest Fan

His Grinning Skull: Golden Teacher Interviewed

Golden Teacher's Sam Bellacosa helps Danny Riley get to grips with the nature of the 12-legged Glaswegian punk-funk-afro-sonic experimentalist party band as they come to the end of their UK tour

Feurio!!!! The Strange World Of Einstürzende Neubauten

On the occasion of a "Greatest Hits" show in honour of their 35th anniversary, Sand Avidar-Walzer revisits a dozen notable moments from a rich and diverse back catalogue.

These Gifts: Mark Arm Of Mudhoney’s Favourite Albums

As they embark upon a run of UK dates tonight, the Seattle fuzz merchants' frontman takes Nick Hutchings on a tour of his top 13 LPs

Daphne Oram & More In This Month’s Tape Reviews Column

This month Tristan Bath delves into the past with a review of a new cassette of undiscovered work by Daphne Oram, new music from former Medicine man Brad Laner, returning London psych group Lasers From Atlantis, footwork from DJ Fullton, strange Japanese synth project mus.hiba and electronics from Petrels

Various Artists

Pied Piper: Follow Your Soul

Various Artists

Remembering Mountains: Unheard Songs By Karen Dalton

Something To Give Yourself To: An Interview With Piano Wire

After the curtain fell on The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster's second act, that band's Andy Huxley and Sym Gharial began writing songs together. They tell Jeremy Allen about the innate weirdness of their brand of pop music and why Piano Wire are TEMBD's "spiritual heir"

The Fall

Sub-Lingual Tablet

The Body Poetic: An Interview With Luna Miguel

Emily Berry speaks to Spanish poet, editor and journalist Luna Miguel - via a translation by Electric Cereal editor Luis Silva - about the personal significance of mermaids and tattoos, life, death, community, why inspiration is like orgasm, and guts of both the metaphorical and literal sorts. (Photograph by Laura Rosal)

Goldsmith, Place & What Gringpo Means For Your Reading

Tim MacGabhann, Mariana Rodríguez and John Z. Komurki — Editors of Mexico City Lit — consider racial and gender exclusivity, cultural appropriation and erasure in the light of Kenneth Goldsmith's 'Body of Michael Brown', Vanessa Place's Mammy-toting twitter feed and the Mongrel Coalition Against Gringpo