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A Scrap Metal Colossus: Helios Creed Of Chrome Interviewed

Currently touring across Europe, the industrial rock titans' bandleader speaks to Jimmy Martin

Pixies: Quietus Writers Digging For Fire Beyond The Hits

With the Pixies' Sunday headline set at Field Day approaching, Simon Price, John Freeman, John Doran, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Phil Harrison, JR Moores, Cian Traynor, Laurie Tuffrey, Stewart Smith, Jeremy Allen, Luke Turner and Paul Tucker get levitated beyond the hits and list some of the band's greatest album tracks, B-sides and rarities

A Rave Affair: An Interview With Eomac

Both solo and as one half of Lakker, Dublin's Eomac is responsible for some of the most wiry, intricate and freakily banging club music around right now. Playing Corsica Studios this weekend, he tells Theo Darton-Moore about capturing the elusive energy of rave and his stellar new LP Spectre

Parallel Worlds: Peter Strickland’s Favourite Albums

On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites

Tori Amos

Unrepentant Geraldines

Lay Llamas

Ostro

She’s The One: Annette Peacock Interviewed

Annette Peacock is a stone cold original - an innovator, an outlier, authentically sui generis. John Doran talks to her about the timely reissue of Revenge - an album she recorded in 1968 that still sounds fresh now. With thanks to Cindy Stern

Steady Flexin’: An Interview With Lunice

Ahead of his set at Field Day this weekend, Ed Ledsham catches up with the Montreal producer to discuss the evolution of his sound, taking tips from Kanye and his explosive TNGHT project with Hudson Mohawke

Going The Whole Hog: The Cult’s Sonic Temple Revisited

Val Siebert looks back a three decades to when Ian Astbury and Billy Duffy were staging a fight back with their biggest selling album to date

Men & Women Of Aran: Things Learned At The Drop Everything Festival

Ian Maleney reports from Inis Oírr, the smallest of the Aran Islands, for contemporary cultural biennial Drop Everything

Led Zeppelin

I, II, III (Reissues)

Spool’s Out: A Tape Review Column For June

Tristan Bath returns to tape reviewing duties with coverage of new cassettes from Tashi Dorji, Weightausend, Faux Fur, AyGeeTe, Solvognen, Siavash Amini and Laplante/Dunn/Smith. Internet friendly image of cat and synth from the Weightausend Tumblr

Officer!

Dead Unique

Midnight Doesn’t Mean Anything: An Interview With Ned Beauman

Karl Smith speaks to the Man Booker long listed author and Granta Best Young Novelist about the difference between crack and classical music, talking with foxes and how his new novel, Glow, is as much a thriller as it is a love letter

I Love Roses When They’re Past Their Best: Harry Burke Interviewed

Sam Riviere speaks to poet, curator and editor of recently published poetry anthology 'I Love Roses When They're Past Their Best', Harry Burke, about defying borders and boundaries, technological determinism and whether or not poetry should be free

Within Habit: A Poem From Oli Hazzard’s New Collection

New writing this week comes courtesy of Oli Hazzard - and the good people at Test Centre - in the form of one of the twenty two untitled poems that make up his new collection, Within Habit

Dancing The Temporal Tango: An Interview With Jack Ruby

After the recent release of a double disc anthology drawing on their recovered master tapes, Charlie Frame talks to Robin Hall and Randy Cohen of the elusive yet seminal New York punk group

Owen Pallett

In Conflict

Hedvig Mollestad Trio

Enfant Terrible

Playing The Cosmos Song: Thurston Moore & John Sinclair On Sun Ra

Sean Kitching talks to John Sinclair of MC5, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth and Paul Smith of Blast First Petite about the life and music of Sun Ra

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

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"