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A Place To Bury Strangers

Transfixiation

This Is A Low: Blur, Asia & Cultural Appropriation

In claiming their new album The Magic Whip to be 'Asia-inspired', Blur have become the latest in a line of Western musicians to boil down the diverse cultures of the most populated region in the world into one nonsensical mishmash, says Sandra Song

Noel’s Straight Hedge: The Latest Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

In a busy month for his Straight Hedge column, Noel Gardner looks at trans visibility in the hardcore scene as he reviews a demo from G.L.O.S.S., and covers new releases from Dark Blue, Give, Cheena, Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät, Karanteeni, Couch Slut, Generacion Suicida, G.L.O.S.S, Jackals, Mangle

Iridescent Curiosities: An Interview With Empty Taxi

Brussels-based producer Zoë McPherson's debut cassette/EP signalled an ascendant voice in electronic music, shifting through vocal-lined techno and ambient with shades of Muslimgauze, Vatican Shadow and Gazelle Twin. Now, she tells Tristan Bath how Irizajn was the result of pygmy vocal samples, ethnology tomes and technical experimentation

Dan Deacon

Gliss Riffer

Pinch & Sherwood

Late Night Endless

Madonna’s Rebel Heart: A Track By Track Review

After attending a recent playback, Amy Pettifer gives her initial impressions of Madonna's latest musical offering; ballads, EDM and all

Laura Marling

Short Movie

XXX Words: An Interview With Dutch Uncles

With the release of a saucy fourth album O Shudder, Dutch Uncles' lyricist Duncan Wallis talks to John Freeman about the joys of writing lyrics about sex

Moon Duo

Shadow Of The Sun

Levon Vincent

Levon Vincent

“A Reaction To Mediocrity”: Spectres Interviewed

With their debut album Dying fresh on the shelves yesterday, the Bristol four-piece's Joe Hatt and Adrian Dutt talk to Joe Clay about pushing their abrasive sonics to the limit, putting on gigs in crypts and police cells with their label Howling Owl and why they're hoping their music will have the audience launching cheap booze their way

Stupid & Sophisticated: The Rise & Rise Of The Seven Nation Army Riff

Jeremy Allen gets to grips with the murky origins and the global spread of the 21st century's most famous guitar riff

L.A. Girl: The Life Of Sylvie Simmons In Ten Songs

Joel McIver talks to one of the all time great music journalists about her incisive interviews with the likes of Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen and Johnny Cash, not to mention her own music

Aesthetics Vs Technology: Matthew E White Interviewed

Julian Marszalek speaks to the hirsute Virginian rock sensation about his new album, Fresh Blood. Photographs by Shawn Brackbill

25 Years On: And The Circus Leaves Town By Kyuss Revisited

Dean Brown revisits the stoner rock giants' flawed but rewarding swansong

Ben Lerner, 10:04 & The Death Of “Silence”

Tom Evans considers the concept of silence, the relationship between artist and audience — author and reader — and the notion of collectivity, through the lens of Ben Lerner's 10:04. (Image: 'White Cube' — Ryohei Kan)

Two Poems By: Christopher Mulrooney

This week's new writing comes via Los Angeles in the form of two new poems by Christopher Mulrooney

Snook-er Looper-y: Predestination Reviewed

Sean Kitching reviews brain melting time travel thriller Predestination

Hall Of Mirrors: An Interview With Mumdance & Logos

For their new collaboration Proto, Jack Adams and James Parker drew on their love of 90s rave music, folding happy hardcore, gabber and jungle influences into their own forward-looking sonics. In an in-depth interview, they talk to Christian Eede about putting the album together

Samba Touré

Gandadiko

Mann-erisms: The Films Of Michael Mann Reassessed

To mark Arrow Films' re-release of Thief on blu-ray, Tony McKiver looks back at the work of Michael Mann and highlights some of his lesser noted stylistic tendencies

Umm Kulthum: Queen Of The Nile

It is the 40th anniversary of the death of the Middle East's most revered singer, Umm Kulthum. Yousif Nur gives us a brief introduction to the Nightingale Of The Nile and selects his favourite ten tracks by her

25 Years On: Tricky’s Maxinquaye Revisited

David Bennun interviewed Tricky several times for Melody Maker in the 1990s and reviewed Maxinquaye on its release. He assesses how his relationship to this landmark album has changed over the intervening decades

THEESatisfaction

EarthEE

Susanne Sundfør

Ten Love Songs

Invisible Undercurrents: Cat’s Eyes’ Favourite Soundtracks

With their soundtrack to Peter Strickland's new film The Duke Of Burgundy released this week, Cats' Eyes - The Horrors' Faris Badwan and composer Rachel Zeffira - run through their movie collection with Kiran Acharya to pick out their 13 top scores and soundtracks

Steve Gunn & The Black Twig Pickers

Seasonal Hire

Egyptrixx

Transfer Of Energy [Feelings Of Power]

Walking Through Heaven: Carter Tutti Play Chris & Cosey Live

Mat Colegate reports on Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti's last outing of Chris & Cosey, ahead of a new album of Carter Tutti material due later this year

“F**king Relentless”: An Interview With Yak

Julian Marszalek met Oli Burslem, frontman of frenetic London trio Yak, to talk about their debut single Hungry Heart, and ended up discussing 99p eBay organs, the "modest" Dandy Warhols and why psychedelia means more than just wearing colourful trousers in Wolverhampton

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

Odd Future Rib Eye Steak Eat It All capo Gary Suarez puts down the porterhouse and picks up a bag of mix tapes.