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Mangled Catharsis: Bad Breeding Interviewed

Before they bring their incendiary, raging live set to Field Day, Bad Breeding's Chris Dodd speaks to Alex Macrow about using their anarcho and hardcore-inspired punk to combat political apathy

A$AP Rocky

At.Long.Last.A$AP

Jenny Hval

Apocalypse, Girl

Uniform

Perfect World

Bromance Is Dead: Male Failure In Humpday And Old Joy

Following on from his article concerning American Psycho and Point Break, Stephen Lee Naish investigates two more examples of female directors focussing on and spotlighting male behaviour

Tone-Questing: Viet Cong Interviewed

Before they play Field Day, singer and bassist Matt Flegel talks to Ben Graham about the influence of This Heat and Bauhaus on the Canadian post-punks' sound, finding his voice and their "dumb band name"

James Welburn

Hold

David John Sheppard

Vertical Land

Prurient

Frozen Niagara Falls

Semi-Chaotic Elements: Ekoplekz’ Favourite Albums

With his third album on Planet Mu out, Nick Edwards gives us an in-depth trawl through his top 13 LPs, a Baker's Dozen that scans his formative 90s electronica influences and acts as a "reference point" to Reflekzionz

Spool’s Out, Slight Return: May’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath, Part II

In the second half of Tristan Bath's monthly cassettes round-up, he takes a tour through new releases of long-form Italian drone, Belgian black metal and clarinet-led experimentation from Chicago

Fiery Sermons Against The Age Of Beige: Algiers Live

Within their gospel-flecked industrial rattlers, Algiers cover rage, politics, sex and death. After watching them play London's Ace Hotel last night, Luke Turner argues that they are what pop music needs in 2015

Anger Management: Du Blonde Interviewed

Beth Jeans Houghton has left behind her old persona for new project Du Blonde. She tells John Freeman why it allowed her to "explode" on her incendiary new album Welcome Back To Milk

Thomas Brinkmann

What You Hear (Is What You Hear)

Holly Herndon

Platform

The Utopia Of Records: Why Sound Archiving Is Important

Sound is not permanent, and much of the recorded recent history of humanity is currently disintegrating. Robert Barry reports from the British Library Sound Archive and Internet Archive to find out what's being done to preserve these audio records, and explains what you can do to help

Jon Brooks

Walberswick

Hammer & Tongs: The Darkness’ Justin Hawkins Interviewed

With their fourth album, Last Of Our Kind, just released, the Lowestoft rock behemoths' singer and lead guitarist Justin Hawkins talks to Harry Sword in a wide-ranging interview, ranging from hedonism and touring with Lady Gaga to the travails of acid reflux and the "fucking genius" of David Hasselhoff

Jamie xx

In Colour

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