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Piss Off! Mr Agreeable Makes A Deposit In Pop Stars’ Tidal Basin

As most of the world's (er America's) biggest pop stars gather together for a press conference announcing new streaming service Tidal, our old friend Mr Agreeable has choice words to say about their grab for cash

Collective Trance: An Interview With Föllakzoid

Domingo García-Huidobro tells Robert McCallum about the Chilean trio's new record III, a space-gazing conglomeration of shamanic ritual and psychic communion with Ash Ra Temple and Popul Vuh

The Strange World Of… Billy Childish

Strange World is a semi-regular guide to artists who have produced bewilderingly large bodies of work. Here Helen King meets Billy Childish to discuss punk rock, door-knockers and dusting his mother's dahlias. Billy Childish portraits by Edd Westmacott

Föllakzoid

III

Keepin’ It Dirty: A celebration of ODB’s Return to the 36 Chambers

Cian Traynor re-appraises a hip hop anomaly by speaking to some of those who knew Ol' Dirty Bastard best

Out Of Our Dwam: An Interview With Momus

Oscar Gaynor speaks to the authorial element of writer/musician Momus' multifariously-split artistic personality about his new free-to-download book, Herr F, the limits and possibilities of fog, arts culture post-Here Comes Everybody and the social functions of acting

Short Fiction By: Joe Thomson

Joe Thomson's short story 'New York, 2002' fills this week's new writing segment, covering and confronting the not-exactly-small topics of love, freedom and prejudice in the still-rippling wake of September 11th

Has He Lost His Mind?: The Saragossa Manuscript

Ahead of its showing as part of Martin Scorsese's presentation of the masterpieces of Polish cinema at the BFI next month, Robert Bright takes a look back at Wojciech Has's delirious The Saragossa Manuscript

Things Learned At: Bergen’s Borealis Festival, By Luke Turner

Luke Turner heads to the Norwegian city of Bergen for the annual Borealis Festival for a wonderful weekend featuring composition, experimentation, melting ice, Russell Haswell, Lucy Railton and Richard Dawson, recontextualised rap and more. All photos thanks to Borealis and Henrik Beck.

Taking It Outside: Rockfort Interviews Chloé Raunet & Delphine Dora

Our man in Paris talks to C.A.R. (aka former Battant member Chloé Raunet) about trauma and inspiration, and to Delphine Dora about fetishising madness. Plus: this month’s recommended French releases

Therapy?

Disquiet

Echo Lake

Era

Two To Your Right, Five To Your Left: Okkyung Lee Interviewed

Before she plays the Southbank Centre tonight, the experimental cellist talks to Adam Potts about the evolution of her highly physicalised style of playing and refiguring her instrument as a noise-making tool

LoneLady

Hinterland

Ata Kak

Obaa Sima

Coke & Wet: The Power Station Versus Arcadia By Simon Price

35 years on, Simon Price revisits the undeclared war between Arcadia, who made "the most pretentious album ever", and The Power Station, who made "the most cocainey album ever"; and asks who, if anyone, was the winner

All That Is Solid: Ten Songs With Danny Dorling

Speaking in maps: geographer and inequality expert Danny Dorling talks to Karen Shook about data-spotting, the Duke of York, sexy Greek economists and Sleaford Mods' 'Lily Allen for older people'

Homage Not Fromage: Jimmy Somerville Interview

Jimmy Somerville talks to John Freeman about how a lifelong love of disco inspired his glittering new solo album, Homage

Digging From The Inside: An Interview With Jlin

With her debut album Dark Energy finding the Indiana producer pushing footwork's sound forward, she tells Christian Eede about finding value in failure and why she's put a bar on creating from a "happy place"

Super Fury Animal: Squarepusher Interviewed

Nick Hutchings goes head to head with bass master and future facing musician Tom Jenkinson aka Squarepusher over his new album, Damogen Furies. All pictures courtesy of Tim Saccenti

Scuba

Claustrophobia

Bethia Beadman

Chinatown

Jim Johnston

After All The Wishing

Complete Communion: Stewart Smith Reviews March’s Jazz

Stewart Smith previews plenty of great shows and reviews albums by Matthew Shipp, Alexander Hawkins Trio, Death Shanties, Barry Guy, Polar Bear, Free Nelson ManDoomJazz, Roger Turner and Otomo Yoshihide

Towards An Unknown Resolution: Bloc Weekend 2015 Reviewed

Bloc Weekend returned to Butlins Minehead last week, for its first festival at the venue since 2011. Rory Gibb and Ed Gillett journeyed out west to report on a weekend of techno-heavy delights, spaced-out cosmic drifts and several killer DJ sets. Photographs by Beth Marsh and Jake Davis

Kendrick Lamar

To Pimp A Butterfly

Thirty Pounds Of Bone

The Taxidermist

Leviathan

Scar Sighted

Monumental Achievement: East India Youth Interviewed

Culture Of Volume hasn't been off the Quietus stereo since we first heard it months ago. William Doyle explains the genesis of this astounding album to John Doran

Short Fiction: Binary Star By Sarah Gerard

Extracted from the novel Binary Star, published earlier this year by Two Dollar Radio, Sarah Gerard's prose, both haunted and haunting, possesses a celestial quality seemingly drawn from the beauty of fluttering, astronomical luminescence and the terror of what feels a near-immeasurable vastness. In Binary Star personal reality becomes the vacuum and the horror of the metaphysical numinous abject. (Photograph by Josh Wool)

An Interloper In The World: Confessions Of A Heretic Reviewed

Sophia Deboick considers the English-language version of Adam 'Nergal' Darski's autobiography, a work of more than just sensationalism for its own sake, via the Polish people's love for scrambled eggs, The Voice and polarising views on religion

Time Destroys All Things: Irreversible Reassessed

Michael Brooks takes a look back at Gaspar Noe's perennially controversial Irreversible