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Cut Hands

Festival Of The Dead

Ritual Mess

Vile Art

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

ATOMOS

Before Cease To Exist: Kjetil Nernes On Årabrot And Cancer

Mighty Matt Ridout talks to Kjetil Nernes - Norwegian esoteric gentleman of noise rock - about his brush with a "real and living hell"

Ambulance Chaser: Is Bringing Out The Dead Scorsese’s Last Great Film?

Fearghas Cleary revisits Scorsese's 1999 flop and asks if it was the veteran director's last moment of real greatness

Anthroprophh

Outside The Circle

Designing Experience: Klara Lewis Interviewed

Ahead of a show alongside Nik Void at Birthdays early next month, Klara Lewis talks to Matthew Kent about visual elements, the process of building tracks and how aspects of her being don't define her sound

Setting Fire To Field Of Reeds: These New Puritans Interviewed

As These New Puritans put an end to their Field Of Reeds phase of activity by releasing a live album of their Barbican concert back in April, Jack and George Barnett tell Luke Turner about constructing a sound library, Arsenal, soundtracks to jogging and where the band will be heading next

A World That’s Gone: Suede’s Dog Man Star 25 Years On

At odds with the world, with reality, with Britpop and with each other, Suede were in a terrible place as they wrote and recorded Dog Man Star. But, writes Matthew Lindsay, it's the album that would end up as their masterpiece

Saint Saviour

In The Seams

Slipknot

.5: The Gray Chapter

Different Men: Culture Club Live, By Simon Price

Simon Price heads to Heaven for the return of Culture Club and considers getting older with Boy George... who "might not have been the most saintly of guardian angels". Live photograph thanks to John Rahim/Music Pics

The Byline: British Sea Power’s Noble On The Trials Of The Man U Fan

In the second of our series recounting independent musicians personal relationships with the beautiful game, British Sea Power's Martin Noble talks to Andrew Fenwick about eating crisps at Old Trafford, performing at an FA Cup Final and catching a glimpse of Sir Bobby Charlton's penis...

Tashi Wada

Duets

Dance Slow Decades: Angel Olsen Interviewed

After a year of intense touring, Angel Olsen sits down with Jeremy Allen in Rouen, France to discuss vocal techniques, her 2014 album Burn Your Fire For No Witness and where she's heading next

Things Dragged Into Sunlight Learned On Tour In Japan

Dragged Into Sunlight are one of the heaviest and nastiest bands out there, obscuring their identities and singing about serial killers. Here, they tell us about life on the road in Japan

Gazelle Twin

Unflesh

Not Pastel Colours: Boris Blank Of Yello’s Favourite Albums

With a new box set of his soundtrack work just released, the composer and Yello man takes Rob Heath from Sun Ra to The xx in his all-time top LPs

The Thrill Of It All: Roxy Music’s Country Life Revisited

Our man from the Orange County, Ned Raggett casts his American eye over another British classic

Pete Shelley Interview: The Fate & The Fury Of The Buzzcocks

Pete Shelley discusses the spirit of punk, the quirks of fate and the legacy of the Buzzcocks with David Gavan. Photograph by Ian Rook. (this feature was republished on 7th December 2018 to mark the sad passing of Pete Shelley)

…And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead

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Mary Lattimore & Jeff Zeigler

Slant Of Light

Enter The Furnace: Scott Walker Interviewed

John Doran meets the inimitable 30th Century Man to discuss Soused, his collaboration with Sunn O))) and front runner for album of the year

Poems In People: An Interview With Richard Hawley

With his first three solo albums due for reissue, Richard Hawley talks them over with Julian Marszalek in an in-depth interview taking in pop music, his hometown of Sheffield and why mortality's never far from his mind

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

Gary Suarez may have four score and nineteen problems but a cogent position on all of this month's key hip hop mix tapes ain't one

Matt Nelson

Lower Bottoms

Vashti Bunyan

Heartleap

Doors Of Appropriation: Teju Cole Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to one of contemporary literature's most impressive polymaths - novelist, non-fiction writer, photographer, cultural commentator and art historian Teju Cole - about the pros and cons of cultural appropriation, being a writer in the social media age and the otherworldliness of birds. (Photograph by Teju Cole)

Points Of Divergence: On John Darnielle’s Wolf In White Van

Stephanie Boland gets into the myriad complexities of The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle's world-within-a-world, game-within-a-book debut novel, Wolf in White Van, finding a not unfamiliar cast of characters and references, teen angst made something more potent and a powerful treatise on memory

Never To Pass: Altered Balance – A Tribute To Coil

Richard Fontenoy examines this exploration, neither biography nor hagiography, memoir nor biography, of the life of John Balance and of Coil, finding a collection of remembrances - of poetry, of photography and of personal reminiscences - free from mawkishness, which serve not only to recall but to add to an extraordinary legacy

Pop Satori: Rockfort Interviews Étienne Daho

With the French singer set for his first UK show in 16 years, he tells David McKenna about his latest record, Les chansons de l'innocence retrouvé

Lion With Wings: Ex Hex’s Mary Timony Interviewed

With Ex Hex's full-length debut album Rips released last week, Aimee Swartz catches up with Mary Timony to talk island survival, current rock & roll renaissance, and the worst song in the history of songwriting.