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Randolph’s Leap

Clumsy Knot

Exploring the Estonian Underground At Tallinn Music Week

During an inspiring weekend at the sixth Tallinn Music Week, John Rogers sought out some of the leading lights of Tallinn's thriving scene to look into what feeds the city's seemingly boundless creative energy.

Life After Brainiac: John Schmersal Of Vertical Scratchers Interviewed

Master Of The Dough, Stevie Chick talks to John Schmersal of Brainiac and Enon about keeping busy with Caribou, Crooks On Tape and Vertical Scratchers

Tobias.

A Series Of Shocks

Full Clip: March/April’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed by Gary Suarez

Strong as an ox, fresh out the box, Gary Suarez reviews the best (and worst) of current hip hop albums

Plurals

Bugenes Melissae

Thou

Heathen

The Indelible Stain: Gallon Drunk Interviewed

Russell Cuzner goes head to head with James Johnston of Gallon Drunk to discuss their artistic rebirth and new album The Soul Of The Hour

Soul Searching: Lisa Stansfield’s Favourite Albums

With the release of her first album in ten years, Lisa Stansfield talks to John Freeman about 13 albums that each occupies a little piece of her heart.

The Month’s Electronic Music: Sometimes You Have To Go Deeper

In his latest electronic music column, Rory Gibb gets lost in the shimmery labyrinths of Some Truths, plus explores recent releases from HER Records, Ishan Sound, Evian Christ, Aurora Halal and more

Bardo Pond

Shone Like A Ton / Refulgo (Reissues)

S. Carey

Range Of Light

Fears Faced: School Of Language’s David Brewis Interviewed

Field Music's David Brewis chats to John Freeman about how the new album for his School Of Language solo project was inspired by "weirdness and anxiety" and Justin Timberlake

Jarvis Cocker’s Melt Down: Martin Wallace Talks About The Big Melt

Adam Bychawski talks to director Martin Wallace about his collaboration with Jarvis Cocker on the unconventional documentary The Big Melt

What Quaere Fellows: Queen II Revisited

"Everywhere your ears look" says Dan Ross of Queen's second glorious release, "there's a sound they can't explain..."

Sky Ferreira

Night Time, My Time

Thug Entrancer

Death After Life

Eyes & No Eyes

Eyes & No Eyes

Hunks Punch Lunks: The Fascist Sex Cult Of The Professionals

Taylor Parkes celebrates the strange and sometimes unsophisticated, yet hypnotically rewarding, representation of "the hardest men in the world": The Professionals

No More Coals From Newcastle: Test Dept At AV Festival

Luke Turner travels to the AV Festival in Newcastle and sees Test Dept make a powerful, moving statement about the end of the coal industry and Miners' Strike with a gigantic installation at Dunston Staithes on the River Tyne. Photographs by Colin Davison, Mark Savage

Travels In Non-Space: An Interview With Time Attendant

Ed Gillett meets up with the South London-based electronic musician and painter to discuss uniting sounds from across time, this year's Treacherous Orb EP, and a desire to "cover everything in a layer of soil"

13 (Acts Of Love): Mick Harvey’s Favourite Albums

Fresh off the back of his Ministry Of Wolves work and with Serge Gainsbourg albums and live shows on the way, the former Bad Seed and prolific singer-songwriter gives Julian Marszalek the rundown of his top 13 records

Killing Sound

Killing Sound

Owls

Two

Leytonstone To The Bone: Damon Albarn Interviewed

Jude Rogers takes Damon Albarn on a trip from the East London of his childhood to the West London of 2014. All photographs courtesy Linda Brownlee

The Residents

Santa Dog / Residue Of The Residents (Reissues)

Poor But Sexy: Culture Clashes In Europe East And West, An Extract

We're pleased to present an extract of Agata Pyzik's new book about how the East stayed East and the West stayed West after the wall came down...

Two Poems By: Sophie Collins

This week's new writing once again takes the shape of poetry and comes to us from Sophie Collins - poet, co-founder and co-editor of tender

The Body Of The Word: An Interview With Eugene Ostashevsky

Speaking to the Leningrad-born poet at his home in Berlin, Eve Richens asks Eugene Ostashevsky about his current project - The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi - his vast array of influences, from Shakespeare to Soviet linguistic propaganda, and the communicative abilities of animals

Everything Inkluding: Kitchen Sink Books Interviewed

Aug Stone talks to Denis Kitchen and John Lind about that strange brief period when Marvel published underground comix, the new Kitchen Sink imprint, and the French ticklers, Surrealist art, and 78 jukeboxes in between

Chris Roberts On Kate Bush Live

As Kate Bush announces her first live dates in three decades, Chris Roberts writes in praise of an artist who "has always operated outside logic and function."

Riverrun Through It: Imagining & Reimagining Finnegans Wake

With 'riverrun', the newest in a long line of artistic adaptations of Joyce's famously-less-than-permeable novel, currently playing at the National Theatre Stephanie Boland considers the difficulties of adapting and interpreting Finnegans Wake and Olwen Fouéré's production