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Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Toby Cook

Toby Cook reviews all the metal that's fit for your shell-like: Napalm Death, The Body, Thou, Xibalba, Lotus Thief and Necrocanibalistic Vomitorium

Give It Something Heavy: Duke Garwood Interviewed

Kent bluesman Duke Garwood talks to Nick Hutchings about playing with Mark Lanegan, hanging out with the Master Musicians Of Jajouka and recording his new album, Heavy Love

Breath Of The Inuit: Tanya Tagaq Interviewed

Canadian throat singer Tanya Tagaq talks to John Freeman about her extraordinary new album Animism and why she would tell Paul McCartney to "fuck right off"

“We Came From Outside”: Thurston Moore & Mark Stewart In Conversation

As The Pop Group prepare to release their first album in over three decades, Bobby Barry brings together the band's Mark Stewart with mutual fan (and fellow cloud-botherer) Thurston Moore to discuss punk, properness and Primark. Photographs courtesy of Chiara Meattelli

And Desire Will Come By Itself: Songhoy Blues Interviewed

The Malian four-piece formed after fleeing from the north of the country when it was taken over by Islamist militants in 2012. Three years on, they tell Richie Troughton about combining blues with their native Songhai music on debut album, Music In Exile

Chants For Socialists: Darren Hayman On William Morris

Geoff Cowart speaks to Darren Hayman about socialist song and the influence of William Morris. Photographs courtesy of Matt Grayson

Pinkshinyultrablast

Everything Else Matters

Napalm Death

Apex Predator - Easy Meat

Tape Adapter: January’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Gary Suarez looks over this months most essential rap mix tapes including efforts by Quiana Ree and Future

Still The Enemy Within: How Film & TV Dealt With The Miners’ Strike

Kevin Mccaighy looks back at film and television responses to the events of 30 years ago and interviews producer Mark Lacey and director Owen Gower who made Still The Enemy Within

A Tourist In One’s Own Country: An Interview With Simon Sylvester

Dale Lately speaks to novelist, poet, slam-winning hat-wearer and winner of the Guardian's Not The Booker Prize 2014, Simon Sylvester about nomadic existence, writing from and outside of experience and the history of storytelling

Poetry: ‘Prawns Of Joe’ By Rachael Allen

This week's new writing comes from the poetically omnipresent (Tender, Clinic, Granta - oh my!) Rachael Allen in the form of 'Prawns of Joe', a poem originally published in print by our good friends over at Test Centre

The Extinction Of Reality: The Counselor Reassessed

Jasun Horsley looks back at The Counselor, and finds new depths in Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's unlikely collaboration

Behold! January’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Aug Stone and John Power kick off the first Comics Column of 2015

Trial

Vessel

Staying Untuned: Zamilska Interviewed

Her debut album of hard-edged, techno-shaded rattlers was one of our favourites of last year. Before she heads to CTM, Natalia Zamilska talks to Luke Turner about meshing together African music and Emily Brontë, the political aspects of her work and seeking diversity in Poland's music scene

Complete Communion With Stewart Smith: January’s Jazz Reviewed

Stewart Smith gets to grips with January in jazz

No Clear Duality: American Sniper And The Modern War Film

Following its muted Oscars reception Angus Batey reflects on American Sniper and the problems faced by films dealing with more recent conflicts

Björk

Vulnicura

Prog, Pop & Prohibited: Rockfort on Robi & Reissues

In our latest music column de Paris, David McKenna looks forward to some brand new old stuff. But first, a word about Charlie Hebdo

The House Of Love

Live At The Lexington

Rejoin The Tribe: Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss Interviewed

This week, the seminal Washington trio released their first album in a decade. In an in-depth interview, drummer Janet Weiss tells Emily Mackay about No Cities To Love's genesis, being figureheads to a new generation of riot grrrl-inspired bands and being a part of the feminist conversation. Photographs courtesy of Brigitte Sire

Irreality Check: Disappears Interviewed

The Chicago post-punk band released their new album, Irreal, this week. Before they come to the UK next month, Robert McCallum talks to their frontman Brian Case about the record, reinterpreting Bowie and the importance of maintaining forward momentum

Sleater-Kinney

No Cities To Love

Desperate Journalist

Desperate Journalist

Jabula Happiness: Julian Bahula Interviewed

The South African drummer and ANC activist talks to Clyde Macfarlane about his achievements and the release of a new compilation, Spirit Of Malombo

Keith Levene

CZ2014

Sir Richard Bishop

Tangier Sessions

Disappears

Irreal

Fragments Of Fragments: An Interview With Laura Cannell

Last year, Laura Cannell released her debut album Quick Sparrows Over The Black Earth, which found the fiddle and recorder player drawing on medieval music for her improvisational compositions. She tells Danny Riley about recording in churches and finding kindred spirits in fellow Early Music fans Bass Clef and Charles Hayward in their Oscilanz project

Earthquake! John Reis Talks Surf Rock And Drive Like Jehu

Tom Hall speaks to the punk & roll veteran about his reignited love for surf rock and the dignified reformation of Drive Like Jehu

Venom

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