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Shouting Louder Than Words: Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade

Ned Raggett turns the clock back thirty-five years and looks at American masculinity in terms of Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade

On Young Thug & Obama: The Latest Hip-Hop Mixtapes

Gary Suarez ponders unfulfilled potential and disappointment as he reviews the latest tape from Young Thug, as well as casting his ears over new stuff by Young Scooter, Rich The Kid, Porter Ray, Mick Jenkins, The Celestics, Ty Dolla $ign, King Louie and Euro

Zammuto

Anchor

Sonic Router 034: Airhead Blasts The Dancefloor

The formerly delicate electronica of London-based musician Airhead has just taken a thrillingly warped swerve towards the dancefloor. For our latest Sonic Router column, he meets Oli Marlow to discuss how club experiences have informed his explosive upcoming Hemlock 12"

Jona Overground

On The Outside

Mysteries Of Desire: Kate Bush, Beyond The Hits

As Kate Bush's live return fires eight of her albums back into the charts, Quietus writers take a look at their favourite deep cuts

Telepathic Relations: An Interview With Shabazz Palaces

The astral hip hop of Seattle's Shabazz Palaces conjures up a disorienting and thrilling patchwork of shifting moods and sensations. Laura Snoad speaks to vocalist Ishmael Butler about new album Lese Majesty, the science fiction of Octavia Butler, and the importance of ambiguity

Looking Backwards, Moving Forwards: Gemma Ray Interviewed

With a new album, Milk For Your Motors, out now, Wyndham Wallace meets Basildon-born Gemma Ray to discuss nostalgia, serendipity and her love for her new home, Berlin

No Class: Frank Turner Live In Barnsley

Like many towns in the UK, Barnsley is all-too-often left off the tour itinerary of most groups. Ian Winwood saw a chance to rectify this during a drunken evening with Frank Turner, and asked the singer songwriter to play for the price of his train fare. Here's what happened next

Pan Sonics: Mika Vainio’s Favourite Albums

Our series of articles curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin continues with a Baker's Dozen from Mika Vainio, solo artist and former member of Pansonic. He tells us about how the likes of Suicide, Neubauten, the Alex Harvey Band, King Crimson and more soundtracked a life of working in slaughterhouses and vegetarian restaurants

All About Alienation: Alan Moore On Lovecraft And Providence

As an extension of their recent interview, Nick Talbot speaks to Alan Moore about the language and philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft and his upcoming ten-part Cthulhu Mythos work Providence

Grace And Danger: A Flannery O’Connor Retrospective

Fifty years on this month from her death, James MacKinnon explores the legacy of Southern Gothic writer, and peacock lover, Flannery O’Connor

Short Fiction: ‘Roger Ebert’ By Oliver Zarandi

After first publishing his short story 'Kooning' last month, new writing this week once again comes via darkly-humorous short fiction from Oliver Zarandi

The Broken Nest: Satyajit Ray’s Charulata reassessed

With the recent restoration of Charulata appearing in cinemas, Yasmeen Khan takes the opportunity to review Satyajit Ray's work through the prism of his best known film

Vessel

Punish, Honey

Cerebral Assassination & Physical Hits: The Bug Interviewed

With Kevin Martin's new album as The Bug released this week, he meets Luke Turner in Berlin to discuss how both personal and political concerns have fed into the fierce and fiery Angels & Devils. Photo by Morisa Tamaki

The Bug

Angels & Devils

“Too Much The Darkness” The Werner Herzog Soundtracks Of Popol Vuh

To mark the BFI's release of their stunning Werner Herzog blu ray box set, David Stubbs discusses the director's legacy of collaboration with krautrocker Florian Fricke

Spools Out With Tristan Bath: Tape Reviews For August

Tristan Bath interviews the illusive Wyrm of the Tapeworm label and reviews all of August's cassettes that are fit to publish, and some that aren't

Robyn Hitchcock

The Man Upstairs

Clock DVA

Post-Sign/Clock 2

Rites Of Passage: The Haxan Cloak’s Favourite Heavy Metal Albums

Bobby Krlic may well be primarily known as an electronic music producer, but he grew up a heavy metal obsessive. As commissioned by Kevin Martin as part of our Bug Week, he tells John Doran about the 13 metal albums he loved the most when he was young

Wand

Ganglion Reef

An Ultrahuman: Kate Bush Reviewed Live, By Simon Price

As Kate Bush plays her first concert in decades, Simon Price looks at her wonderful legacy and reports on a vivid, magical, and overwhelming evening. Image by Ken McKay.

J Mascis

Tied To A Star

The Human Machine: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Interviewed

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's work ranges from hypnotic solo modular synth and voice explorations as Lichens, to acting, composition for film and playing in Om. As part of our week of features curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Tristan Bath meets Lowe to discuss the underlying impulses that unite these varied projects

Ty Segall

Manipulator

Who Lights Up The Dance? An Interview With Flowdan

Commissioned by Kevin Martin as part of our Bug Week, Rory Gibb meets Flowdan, one of the most distinctive voices in grime and beyond, to discuss Jamaican sound system culture's influence on UK music and the origins of The Bug's mighty anthem 'Skeng'

A Wild Feeling: The Vital Legacy Of Saxon Sound

Commissioned by Kevin Martin as part of our Bug Week, Neil Kulkarni writes about the power, potency and legacy of the UK's premier dancehall sound system crew, which gave us Tippa Irie, Smiley Culture and Maxi Priest

John Zorn

On Leaves Of Grass

King 810

Memoirs Of A Murderer

Bonds Of Morality: Ben Myers’ Beastings Reviewed In Conversation

Weary of the standard review format — of answering the question 'Yeah, but is it any good?' — Kit Caless, publisher at Influx Press, sits down with novelist and academic Heidi James to discuss their experience of Ben Myers' new novel Beastings