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A Bigger Bloat: The Hollywood Blockbuster Taken To Task

Jason Ward takes a strimmer to the summer cinematic tentpoles's more corpulent tendencies

Cocteau Twins

Blue Bell Knoll/Heaven Or Las Vegas (Reissue)

Not A Lorre Laughs: Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Reviewed

Tristan Bath reviews a restoration of Fritz Lang's proto-noir masterpiece

Everything But The Gig: The Fat White Family, The Future Of Rock & Gaza

The conversation that takes place around rock & roll is often so engrossing that there's barely enough space or time to discuss the actual music, as John Doran found out after attending The Fat Whites' Slide In For Palestine gig in Brixton last week. All pictures Lou Smith

Chasing Perfectionism: An Interview With Source Direct

Few have crafted electronic music as virtuosic, as moving and as futuristic as groundbreaking drum & bass duo Source Direct did in the late 1990s. In one of his first interviews since returning to action, including a set at Fabric tomorrow, Jim Baker speaks to Harry Sword about Source Direct past and present, searching for futurism in sound, and the tantalising prospect of new music on the horizon

Bega’s Belief: On Camp, Cheese & Why We Should Enjoy Guilt-Free Pleasures

As Spotify announce a new collective playlist, Robert Barry explores the history and validity of the concept of the 'guilty pleasure'

Cosines

Oscillations

Horns Up Ya Shitters! Columnus Metallicus Albums Of 2014 So Far

He is return'd! Slay the fatted lamb! Fill the monkey skull goblets with Jager! Toby Cook is back with his favourite metal albums of the year so far

Various Artists

I Know Why The Caged Girl Sings

Neil Young & When Musicians Lose Their Moral Compass

After Neil Young came close to breaking the cultural boycott of Israel recently, Nick MacWilliam looks at some other occasions of musicians throwing ethics to the wind

Earthling Society

England Have My Bones

Precarious Music: Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at Supernormal Festival next weekend, Russell Cuzner meets Manchester-based duo part wild horses mane on both sides to discuss their deeply meditative improvised music, and how immersion in the moment leads to new mindstates

Penny Orchids

Worse Things

Eomac

Spectre

Bölzer

Soma EP

Sweet Thirteen: Jennifer Herrema’s Favourite Albums

Following their interview about Black Bananas' new LP Electric Brick Wall, Jennifer Herrema talks Nick Hutchings through her Baker's Dozen of seminal records

End Times: David Kilgour Of The Clean Interviewed

Hayley Scott speaks to one of the originators of the Dunedin Sound about The Clean and The Heavy Eights

Sort Out Your Shoes, Then Liberate Your Mind: Taman Shud Interviewed

Ahead of their show at Supernormal Festival, Ben Graham meets the thirsty occult louts behind Taman Shud's mighty psychedelic racket, to learn about coping with office job boredom through transcendent volume, esoteric weirdness, crisps and booze

Minimal Foundation: An Interview With Nisennenmondai

With the Japanese trio embarking on a UK tour this week, Tristan Bath speaks with Nisennenmondai in a rare interview to discuss their mesmerising voyages into the interzone between noise, rock and dance music. Along the way he discovers that their commitment to minimalism stretches beyond their intensely stripped-back tracks...

Ian Crause

The Song Of Phaethon EP

The Muffs

Whoop Dee Do

What Comes Around: Paul’s Boutique By The Beastie Boys Revisited

The dust has been settling on the Beasties' second album for 30 years now. Just what the hell was Paul's Boutique about asks Angus Batey

Gang Of Four’s Small ‘P’ Politics: 33 1/3’s ‘Entertainment!’ Reviewed

Houman Barekat considers Kevin J. H. Dettmar's contribution to 33 1/3's series of books dedicated to single albums, a study of Gang of Four's Entertainment!

Poetry: ‘Getting Over It w/ Conscientious Jane’ By Gil Lawson

New writing goes back to its roots this week with new poetry from Gil Lawson

Daniel Patrick Quinn

Acting The Rubber Pig

Anand Wilder & Maxwell Kardon

Break Line

Various Artists

Manchester Standards: Sides 3 & 4

Leman 24/7: Things Learned At Montreux Jazz Festival

Stewart Smith has a high altitude epiphany, induced by wondrous performances from the Daptone Super Soul Revue, Mavis Staples and Stevie Wonder among others, near the shores of Lac Leman...

Galaxy High! Guardians Of The Galaxy Reviewed

Mat Colegate blasts off with the latest comic book adaptation from the Marvel stable (Note: While every effort has been made to avoid spoilers a few tiny hints are unavoidable. Proceed with caution)

In Conversation: Mogwai, “Cockroaches Of Post Rock” On… Mogwai

Mogwai talk to Luke Turner about the highs and lows of their near two decades of operation

Midnight Masses

Departures

By Process Of Iteration: An Interview With Kiran Leonard

John Freeman meets up with the prodigiously talented Kiran Leonard to talk about the next two follow-up albums to debut Bowler Hat Soup and the continual quest to define his sound