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This Is My Sermon: M Gira Of Swans Speaks To John Doran

Ahead of the release of magnificent new Swans album To Be Kind, Michael Gira speaks to John Doran about that LP's ferocious grooves, his role as band leader, Haitian history, the early days of the group, and his terror at the ever-increasing commercialisation of our society. Photography by Jennifer Church, Sebastien Sighell and Matias Coral

Complete Communion: The Month’s Best Jazz Reviewed

Jamie Skey returns for the latest edition of his monthly jazz column, exploring a selection of the best recent jazz (and not so jazz) releases, including great new albums from Phronesis, Led Bib (pictured), Dominic J Marshall and Marius Neset

The Body Is A Lever: An Interview With Sam Byers

Houman Barekat speaks to Sam Byers about his debut novel, Idiopathy, the perils of pop psychology and the link between boredom and narcissism

Three Poems By: JDA Winslow

Taking a break from the standard form - in the battle of consistency vs completeness, the latter having won out - this week we have three new poems by writer and artist JDA Winslow

All Of Creation Just Winks Out: Chuck Palahniuk Interviewed

Novelist and l'enfant terrible of the American short story Chuck Palahniuk speaks to Kevin Perry about blackmailing for material, betraying the default cynicism of his generation and facing up to fear of death

Fire Of Love: A Jeffrey Lee Pierce Retrospective

With the release of Axels And Sockets, the third instalment of The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project, next week, Helen Donlon looks back over the troubled but brilliant career of the Gun Club founder. Photographs courtesy of Edward Colver

Cycles Of Orbit: Rockfort Interviews Velour Modular

In our latest French music column, David McKenna meets London-based techno-mystic Velour Modular to discuss William Blake, a childhood spent in many cities, and the mysteries of scale

Sleaford Mods

Divide And Exit

Kassem Mosse

Workshop 19

Satan’s Scapegoat: The Daily Mail & Blaming Metal For Murder

The Daily Mail has once more blamed listening to heavy metal as in some way contributory to the tragic murder of Ann Maguire, and a recent teenage suicide. Joel McIver explains why this argument needs to be challenged

Bikini Kill

Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah (Anniversary Reissue)

Tape Adapter: April’s Hip-Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

It's Gary Suarez's birthday, but we love him so much that we're going to refrain from adapting 50 Cent lyrics for the standfirst of his monthly mixtape round up - this edition featuring DonChristian, Fat Trel, Jimmy Johnson and more

An Exceedingly Female Space: Hole’s Live Through This Revisited

25 years since its release, Amy Pettifer examines a classic album, in part driven by the conflicts between its riot grrl roots and its mainstream feminist agenda, and in part (unwittingly) driven by tragedy

No Middle Ground: The Amazing Snakeheads Interviewed

With their debut album Amphetamine Ballads just released, Julian Marszalek catches up with Glasgow's hotwired rock & roll trio The Amazing Snakeheads to talk dramatic menace and the lure of minimalism

All You’re Waiting For: Nancy Whang’s Favourite Albums

With the first of her new singles series out on Gomma and an album from The Juan MacLean due this summer, the former LCD Soundsystem member and DJ talks Thomas Hasson through her all-time top records

Further Reductions

Woodwork

Elevator Music: An Interview With Bohren & Der Club Of Gore

With the German quartet's latest album Piano Nights released earlier this year, Joseph Burnett catches up with Bohren & Der Club Of Gore to discuss their exquisitely slow-moving nocturnal explorations

Nomeansno

Dance Of The Headless Bourgeoisie (Reissue)

White. Loud. Angry: Sleaford Mods Live By Kev Kharas

12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev Kharas, has he found a voice?

Damon Albarn

Everyday Robots

Iggy Azalea

The New Classic

Alan Parsons Project

Complete Albums Collection

The Month In Electronic Music: Raw Soul

In his latest electronic music column, Rory Gibb recalls the visceral thrill of DJ Rashad live, plus reviews new excursions in dubbed-out pop and techno from Throwing Shade, Inga Copeland, Allison Chanic, Call Super, Fade To Mind and more

Rollin’ Down The Lonely Highway: DJ Rashad Interviewed

As the dizzying syncopations of Chicago footwork have spread across the globe over the last couple of years, DJ Rashad has become one of its primary ambassadors. With a new EP recently released through Hyperdub, he speaks with Charlie Frame about sample slicing and versatility. This article was originally published May 2013, republished following the sad passing of DJ Rashad in April 2014

Proper Job! What National Minority Status Means To The Cornish

Cornish lad Jeremy Allen looks at what the recent decision to grant the county national minority status means to its residents. Photo from Shutterstock

Raf And O

Time Machine

Hallock Hill

Kosloff Mansion

Battle Lines Of Meaning: These New Puritans’ Field Of Reeds Expanded

These New Puritans bring their Magic Resonator Piano and a host of supporting musicians to The Barbican for Field Of Reeds Expanded. Tim Burrows examines their quest to find "the elegiac and the sublime in the horrors and scars of southeast England
". Photo by Andy Wilshire

Chewed Corners: Mike Paradinas’ Favourite Records

The pioneering electronic musician familiarly known as μ-Ziq, Planet Mu label founder and one half of Heterotic - who have just released their second album, Weird Drift - gives Joe Clay his potted biography in 13 top records

A British Disaster: Blur’s Parklife, Britpop, Princess Di & The 1990s

Taylor Parkes marks the 25th anniversary of the release of Blur's Parklife by exploring the album in the context of the huge changes wrought on British life in the mid to late 90s by Britpop, Blair and the death of Princess Diana. Chips photo by David Moats

Pornography As A Trojan Horse: Peter Buwalda Interviewed

Peter Buwalda speaks to Karl Smith about generational conflict, the evolution and revolution of internet pornography and the artistic aspect of hard sciences in his new novel Bonita Avenue