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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

Meat, Beats, No Manifestos: An Interview With group A

Embarking on a European tour ahead of their third album 70+a='s release, the Tokyo industrial-noise duo discuss Throbbing Gristle, performing half naked and the lying liar of a Japanese prime minister with Karen Shook

Bizarre Distractions: An Uncle Acid Cinematic Baker’s Dozen

With their new LP The Night Creeper out now, Mat Colegate talks to Uncle Acid And The Deadbeats singer Kevin Starrs about the horror and exploitation films that feed into the band's rich world of imagery and music

Something Changed: Pulp’s Different Class Revisited

Luke Turner looks back 25 years to a singular album and a nation standing at a cultural crossroads

Verfreundungseffekt – Poets Of The Rifle: Cultural Resistance From Saharawi Refugee Camps

How do you collaboratively translate a transliterated oral poetry about a homeland you’ve never seen? And what’s it got to do with Jeremy Corbyn?

Stories Told From The Inside: Pedro Costa’s Horse Money Reviewed

Robert Bright on the latest film in the Portugese director's Fontaínhas quartet

The Lead Review: Rory Gibb On King Midas Sound & Fennesz’s Edition 1

King Midas Sound and Fennesz's collaborative music evokes the anxieties of love in the time of climate change, says Rory Gibb

Ought

Sun Coming Down

Deaf Wish

Pain

Kurt Vile

B'lieve I'm Goin Down…

Fangs Bared: On Jeremy Corbyn & Media Treatment

The new Labour leader has faced no shortage of critics, from the press to MPs in his own party, adding their voices to a wave of ferocious attacks. What, Phil Harrison asks, does this say about the state of British democracy?

A Flash Of White Heat: John Stanier Of Battles’ Favourite Albums

With Battles' new LP La Di Da Di out, the drummer with the highest cymbal in rock takes a journey through hardcore, hip-hop and baroque and reveals his 'never-leave-home-without-it security blanket record' for Kiran Acharya

Spool’s Out: September’s Tapes Reviewed By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath is back with all of this month's cassette releases