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Europe After The Rain: J.G. Ballard & Only Connect

What is the word that describes the panicky feeling you get when you realise that literally everything - bar pickled herring - is now Ballardian? John Doran goes to Oslo's Only Connect festival to find the connections between J.G. Ballard and avant garde music

The Pains Of Being Pure At Heart

Days Of Abandon

An Intuitive Place: Yvette Interviewed

With the bludgeoning guitar noise of their debut album Process out this month, Suzie McCracken catches up with Brooklyn duo Yvette to discover how they've channeled present-day societal dread into music that pummels like a breezeblock

The Ghost of A Saber Tooth Tiger

Midnight Sun

K. Leimer

A Period Of Review

World Of Sound: Walls Discuss The Work Of Daphne Oram

Sound House, a new album by Walls based around interpretations and reworkings of material from Daphne Oram's sound archive, is released this month. Joe Clay caught up with the duo's Sam Willis to discuss the magic within Oram's pioneering experiments in electronic sound

Shark Attack: An Interview With Powell

Ahead of this weekend's Diagonal Records night in London, Rory Gibb meets label boss Powell to talk his wild new Club Music EP, provocation and dancefloor disorientation. Photos by Damon Way

Loopflesh: Justin Broadrick And Robert Hampson Interviewed

Mr Neil Kulkarni - who may be a self-confessed balding 40-year old but is still unreasonably handsome - talks to Robert Hampson and Justin Broadrick about why Loop and Godflesh are not touring for the benefit of the hairless and aged. Classic Loop photo courtesy Mr Tom Sheehan

Roots Rock Riot: Benji Webbe Of Skindred’s Favourite Albums

The alternative metallers' frontman gives Dom Smith his Baker's Dozen of top LPs ahead of a summer of festival sets in support of their new album, Kill The Power

Better Off Together: An Interview With All We Are

Ahead of their performance at Field Day, John Freeman talks to the Liverpool-based trio about new single 'Feel Safe' and finds out what happened when Paul McCartney was informed he wasn't their "favourite Beatle"

Thomas Ankersmit

Figueroa Terrace

Teebs

E s t a r a

Bleeding Edge: Nicky Wire on Futures, Futurism and Futurology

With Manic Street Preachers' new album Futurology released in July, Robert Barry speaks to Nicky Wire about European art, European architecture and European life

Two Poems By: Alex Dimitrov

In conjunction with an interview with the NYC-based poet, this week's new writing comes courtesy of two new poems by Alex Dimitrov

Nothing To Say About Queer Identity: Alex Dimitrov Interviewed

Richard Scott speaks to the NYC-based poet Alex Dimitrov about father figures, the relevance of "queer identity", social media and reading his work in the bedrooms of his fans

Anti Nostalgia: Zoe Howe’s ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’ Reviewed

With help from Zoe Howe's newly published history of the band - bunking the biographical trend, pleasingly filled more with anecdotes than footnotes - Hayley Scott unfurls the mystique of the Mary Chain from inception to present day

Sharon Van Etten

Are We There

Psyche Bugyo

Psychedelic Judgeman Comes, He Has the Cherry Blossom On The Shoulder

Anímic

Hannibal

A World Of Interactions: The Evolving Sound Of Living Symphonies

With Daniel Jones and James Bulley's new sound installation Living Symphonies opening this weekend in Thetford Forest, Rory Gibb traveled to the duo's studio to discover how they're translating the dynamics of a woodland ecosystem into self-generating orchestral music

A Dirty Protest: Why An X For UKIP Is A Vote For Profit Over People

As polls predict victory for UKIP in today's European Elections, we explore how, behind the nasty rhetoric that occupies the media, they're a party of rampant neoliberals who, curiously, have failed to oppose EU legislation that gives big business even more power over our daily lives. Dirty Protest headline with thanks and apologies to Stewart Lee.

Yearning For Impossible Escape: Sun Ra, Afro-Futurist Godfather

On the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Sun Ra, David Stubbs writes in praise of a musician whose "example is practical, vital and of the utmost, enduring relevance"

Arch Garrison

I Will Be A Pilgrim

Gesloten Cirkel

Submit X

Planets Of Sound: Joey Santiago Of Pixies’ Favourite Albums

With Indie Cindy out and their headline slot at Field Day on the horizon, Joseph Alberto Santiago, Pixies' lead guitarist-cum-noise implementer, rocks us with his 13 defining records

Archie Bronson Outfit

Wild Crush

Conor Oberst

Upside Down Mountain

The Stradivarius Of The Synthesiser: Fifty Years Of The Moog

Fifty years since the introduction of Bob Moog's first modular synthesiser, Robert Barry explores the history of this revolutionary instrument, and discusses its legacy with Bernie Krause and Will Gregory of Goldfrapp

Laurel Jam: An Interview With Jonathan Wilson

Ahead of his Village Underground show, American singer-songwriter and producer Jonathan Wilson talks to John Freeman about the creation of "a degree of excellence" on his latest album Fanfare while updating the legacy of his beloved Laurel Canyon

On Matters Of Life & Death: Tim Booth Of James Interviewed

John Mullen talks to Tim Booth about album number 13, death, Brian Eno and Morrissey

Once In A Lifetime: On Land And In The Sea By Cardiacs Revisited

Nick Reed looks back a quarter of a century to one of the shining pinnacles in the back catalogue of Cardiacs

Yann Tiersen

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