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Thirty Years On: Depeche Mode’s Some Great Reward Revisited

Our man in Orange County, Ca, Ned Raggett gives us his Stateside view of another classic UK album… this time, Depeche Mode's fourth LP

Noel Gardner’s Straight Hedge XI: Punk & Hardcore Reviewed

Celebrate! Noel Gardner is back with more punk and hardcore reviews and discusses the punk rock/ drinking scrumpy/ washing machine on a 30 degree spin cycle interface

Total Control

Typical System

Cultural Cross-Fertilisation: Poor But Sexy Reviewed

Rhian E. Jones examines Agata Pyzik's generation-spanning cultural and political exploration of the exchange between Eastern and Western Europe in her book Poor But Sexy

Short Fiction: ‘Northern Equinox’ By Max Dunbar

New writing this week comes to you via Leeds in the guise of new short fiction by writer and editor Max Dunbar

An Unflinching Gaze: Tore Renberg’s See You Tomorrow

Stephanie Boland gets stuck in to Knausgårdian compatriot Tore Renberg's most recent work, See You Tomorrow, finding a different kind of realism to that of his long-term friend: something altogether more human

Samurai Of The Beholder: Kurosawa’s Legacy Reassessed

With the Blu-Ray box set of Kurosawa's influential Samurai films available now, David Moats analyses the director's influence on Hollywood and wonders whether it could have been very different

Esben And The Witch

A New Nature

Earth

Primitive And Deadly

Vital Gateway: Hyperdub 10 At Corsica Studios Reviewed

Christian Eede takes stock of the multi-faceted London label as they mark a decade of operations with a line-up matching Dean Blunt and Jessy Lanza's songs to quaking-bass DJ sets from Kode9, Scratcha DVA and more

Blank Generation: Jim Jarmusch’s Permanent Vacation

With the BFI's Jim Jarmusch season underway Michael Wojtas has a look back at the director's 1980 feature debut

Pulling The Hard Stance: An Interview With Prostitutes

With the release of James Donadio's hyperbolic EP Nouveauree this week, the man behind the Prostitutes moniker talks Cleveland, track naming and defying expectations

Adrian Rew

Slot Machine Music Vol. 1 (Reissue)

Separate The Game From The Truth: Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die

On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip-hop luminary

Joel Gion

Apple Bonkers

English Heretic

The Underworld Service

Rustie

Green Language

Songs Of Innocence: On U2, Tax & Hypocrisy

John Doran is singularly unimpressed by U2's invocation of William Blake's Songs Of Innocence. Shouldn't they stop cosying up to morally bankrupt corporations, banks, philosophers, religious leaders and politicians instead?

Punch Drunk Punk: An Interview With Plaids

With their self-titled debut released next month, Kyle Ellison meets Joe Caithness of Nottingham punks Plaids to discuss DIY spaces and drawing equal inspiration from grime and astrophysics

Haphazard Archivism: Stephen Morris Of New Order Interviewed

John Doran talks to Stephen Morris about New Order signing to Mute, pulsar PSR B1919+21 and Joy Division oven gloves

Ekoplekz

Four Track Mind

Crush Depth: Karen O Interviewed

Karen O speaks to Lior Phillips about expressing more of her persona from a standpoint that’s outside the construct of Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Mannheim Rocket

Mannheim Rocket

Karen O

Crush Songs

From The Darkest Chasms: Neil Young’s On The Beach Revisited

Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and greatest moments

Lorenzo Senni

Superimpositions

Diabolical Crackers: Trans Am’s Favourite Albums

With new LP Volume X just out, the Washington D.C. trio split the top albums rundown three ways and self-pen us their Baker's Dozen

Two Poems By: Daisy Lafarge

To Edinburgh this week for September's first instalment of new writing, coming via two new poems courtesy of Daisy Lafarge

Share The Radical: Free Jazz and Improvisation On Vinyl 1965 – 1985

Stewart Smith examines Johannes Rød's "collectors' guide to a niche area of music" — a book of lists with more to offer than catalogue numbers and discographies

Necessarily Unafraid Of Failure: Spencer Madsen & Alt Lit Poetics

Taking the writer and editor's latest offering, You Can Make Anything Sad, as a starting point Jake Elliott considers what Alt Lit has to offer as an art form and where, within that, Spencer Madsen and his work fit in

Dam And Blast: Night Moves Reviewed

Gary Green goes enviro-mental over director Kelly Reichardt's latest

Aaron Dilloway

The Beauty Bath (Reissue)