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Once More 'Round The Sun

Strand Of Oaks

HEAL

Coming Of Age: Richard Linklater’s Boyhood Reviewed

Gary Green grows old gracefully in the company of Richard Linklater's latest.

James Ferraro

Suki Girlz

High Mountain Tempel

Gnosis

Venetian Snares

My Love Is A Bulldozer

Blurred Lines & Crossed Wires: Aidan Moffat On Robin Thicke

This week, Aidan Moffat was engulfed in a Twitterstorm after offering an opinion on Robin Thicke's 'Blurred Lines'. Here, Moffat explains his full position on the song

Time Capsules: Bob Stanley Selects His Favourite Compilations

Soon to appear at this month's Deer Shed Festival, the Saint Etienne man and pop historian picks out 13 prime compilations from his record collection for his self-penned Baker's Dozen

Spools Out: Tristan Bath Reviews July’s Tapes

Our man Tristan Bath returns with more cassette reviews and this month takes a look at batch subscriptions

Peter Matthew Bauer

Liberation!

Otomo Yoshihide

Quintet/Sextet

The Spirit Of Place: An Interview With El Mahdy Jr

The haunting collages of Turkey resident El Mahdy Jr draw traditional and pop music forms into music that pulses with atmosphere.

Desperately Seeking Awesomeness: Kanye West Live At Wireless

Kanye West's onstage wafflings at this weekend's Wireless Festival have attracted the ire of press and festival crowd alike. But, argues Kyle Ellison, it's just more evidence that he wants to be loved...

Leyland Kirby Presents V/Vm

The Death Of Rave (A Partial Flashback)

Getting Off The Bus: Stump Interviewed

Colm McAuliffe speaks to the cult Anglo-Irish avant rock band Stump about their brief history and a new anthology

Dream Pop’s Year Zero: A.R. Kane’s i Revisited

Our man in Orange County Ned Raggett once again gives his American perspective on a British album, this time AR Kane's I

Cleaners From Venus

Return To Bohemia

The Voice Of Minimalism: An Interview With To Rococo Rot

Robert Lippok of German post-rock stalwarts To Rococo Rot talks to John Freeman about unlocking the band's voice on their eighth album, Instrument

Andrew Bird

Things Are Really Great Here, Sort Of…

F**king Pop Classics: Alan McGee’s Favourite Albums

The former Creation Records, now 359 Music man charts his musical history from child of glam to record label boss with Alex Niven

Lark

Bleeding Songs

My Pretty Poison: Revisiting Shakespears Sister’s Sacred Heart

Lesley Chow turns the clock back thirty years to study the power dynamic between Siobhan Fahey and Marcella Detroit on the Shakespears Sister debut album

Down By La Jetée: Lee Rourke Interviewed

Tim Burrows heads down to the coast to meet with author Lee Rourke and discuss his latest novel, Vulgar Things, the ways in which we filter the world and the strange allure and twin personalities of Southend and Canvey Island.

Crumbling Pillars Of Feminine Convention: Viv Albertine’s Autobiography

Rhian E. Jones delves deep in to Viv Albertine's autobiography, finding much more than just another punk memoir, something more like a treatise on socially and culturally accepted and expected modes of sex and sexuality, of femininity and the impact, immediate and enduring, of those eponymous clothes, music and boys

Getting It Together In The Country: Hide And Seek Reviewed

Mat Colegate reviews Joanna Coates' thought-provoking debut feature film

Europe Is Our Playground: An Interview With Huoratron

****warning: videos contain flashing lights****

The arch-perfectionist, "wolf in wolf's clothing" Finnish techno producer sits down with Jeremy Allen to talk about his new EP, Acid Reign, EDM and why all music is political

Cardiacs

Sing To God (Reissue)

Seven That Spells

The Death And Resurrection Of Krautrock: IO

Mr Agreeable: Not Just Coldplay Abscond With His Goat

After knocking over the internet with his upset at Coldplay's new album, Mr Agreeable is back and casts his subtle eye over Death Grips' split, Dylan's 'new' stuff, Ed Sheeran's memoir and Jake Bugg's sexist video shoot

Fictions Built Upon Fictions: The Decline Of Totality In Pop

Robert Barry examines how pop culture's impulse towards totality has crumbled during the past two decades, and finds traces of that decline in the fall of communism in Europe, the UK government's crushing of rave, and the rise of the internet

Roll The Dice

Until Silence

Greg Gives Peter Space

Greg Gives Peter Space