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Jaundiced Reality: Simon Armitage Interviewed

Recent Poetry School Digital Poet in Residence and Selected Poems editor Alex MacDonald speaks to one of the most recognisable names in British poetry, Simon Armitage, about the undercurrent of violence in his work, the perils of being a Northern Poet and his new book of selected poems, Paper Aeroplane

The Quietus Guide To The 2014 London Film Festival

Nick MacWilliam rounds up the films you should be seeing at this year's London Film Festival

The Last Hurrah: The Life And Death Of The Jim Jones Revue

Jim Jones Revue resuscitated the corpse of rock & roll for three glorious albums and infamous, intense gigs. Now, as they call it a day Julian Marszalek joins them on the road for a final blaster. Photographs by Tim France

The Juan Maclean

In A Dream

Less Than The Best Is A Fela-ny: Finding Fela Reviewed

Richie Troughton takes a look at a new documentary on the life and work of Afrobeat pioneer, Fela Kuti

Things Learned At The 2014 Branchage Film Festival

Colm McAuliffe heads to Jersey for the 2014 Branchage Film Festival and, like the dutiful chap he is, reports back with a list of the things he has learned. Photos by Neil R Thomson

The Heliocentrics & Melvin Van Peebles

The Last Transmission

System Addict: Anat Ben-David Interviewed

In the run up to a very special Dirt Nonet show this Sunday at Cafe Oto, Anat Ben-David talks to Robert Barry about Chicks On Speed, Russian Futurists, and pissing off Hugo Boss.

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Thirteen Types Of Elsewhere: Mark Fell’s Favourite Albums

On the eve of his appearance at Semibreve, Portugal's annual celebration of "exploratory music and digital arts", Mark Fell guides us through his most beloved releases

Rhodri Davies

Pedwar

Smashing Pumpkins

Adore

Out-Of-Body Music: An Interview With Katie Gately

With a head-spinning new composition due out this month, following up on last year's startlingly brilliant Pipes, Katie Gately talks to Tristan Bath about moving into music from film sound design, utilising technology and how the voice can be a means of personal reinvention

Sex & Trash Aesthetics: REM’s Monster Revisited

Twenty years after the release of REM's Monster, Stewart Smith looks back at the awkward and highly sexual record which, he argues, is their queerest work

Objekt

Flatland

Coal Into Diamonds: Anand Wilder’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his album Break Line The Musical with Maxwell Kardon, the Yeasayer man talks Nick Hutchings through an appropriately musical-themed top 13

Sun Ra And His Arkestra

In The Orbit Of Ra

Going To Hell: Electric Wizard’s Liz Buckingham Interviewed

Liz Buckingham of doom lords Electric Wizard speaks to Dan Franklin about a year of crisis that led to the Time To Die album

Role Of The Dice: Adrian Rew Interviewed

Adrian Rew tells Alexander Iadarola how he came to take a recorder around American casinos for his Slot Machine Music albums, inspired by Georges Bataille and attempting to enter the mystical state of the gamblers' 'zone'

Thom Yorke

Tomorrow's Modern Boxes

Black Rain

Dark Pool

Sons Of Sons Of Light: The Strange World Of Cyclobe According To Cyclobe

In a fascinating, in-depth interview, Ossian Brown and Stephen Thrower of Cyclobe guide Russell Cuzner through their shimmering career, discussing the hurdy-gurdy, Derek Jarman, Nurse With Wound, live works and artistic collaborators. Thanks to Cyclobe for archive imagery

Horns Up Ya Shitters! A Columnus Metallicus For October

Nay! Cast down those crotch-torn jeans, stop worshipping your favourite band and hear ye: it's time for Toby Cook's recent metal releases rundown

Didn’t See It Coming: An Interview With Belle And Sebastian

In their first worldwide interview since last week's announcement of ninth album Girls In Peacetime Want to Dance, Will Parkhouse speaks to Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch and drummer Richard Colburn

Random Ultra-Violence: Simon Critchley On David Bowie

Prefaced by a short, self-conducted Q&A, we present an extract from author and philosopher Simon Critchley's new book on David Bowie — part personal memoir, part critique — in which we move between Diamond Dogs and Danton's Death, from Nietzsche to the French Revolution

An Indifferent Hunter: Stories Of Geography Gone Mad

Vol.1 Brooklyn managing editor Tobias Carroll writes on geographical anxiety, the near-reality of the post-apocalyptic science fiction narrative and the contemporary relationship of distrust between man and nature. (Photograph by Carlos Gutierrez)

Oo-er, Cantona: You And The Night Reviewed

Nadia Attia gets up close and personal with director Yann Gonzalez's retro-powered romp

Kitchens Of Extinction: The Desperation Of The Doomed Restaurateur

In the latest Come On Fry Young food column, Sam Herlihy ponders about the endless rebranding, disastrous menu diversifications and off-the-scale levels of bravery that is the lot of the restaurateur

LV & Josh Idehen

Islands

Fripp & Eno

Live In Paris 28.05.1975

Hanks For The Memories: The ‘Burbs Revisited

Tony McKiver goes back to the old neighbourhood to reassess Joe Dante's anarchic and subversive comedy 'The 'Burbs'

Burnt Ends: Slackk’s Favourite Albums

The Liverpool-via-London grime producer and Boxed co-founder released his debut album, Palm Tree Fire, last month. Now, he talks Oli Marlow through his favourite records, taking in LPs, mixtapes, pirate radio sets and magazine cover-mounts. Slackk photograph courtesy of Mehdi Lacoste