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How Long ‘Til Black Future Month? Speculative Fiction & Janelle Monae

In her essay - 'How Long 'Til Black Future Month? The Toxins of Speculative Fiction, and the Antidote that is Janelle Monáe' - from Adventure Rocketship! Let’s All Go To The Science Fiction Disco, NK Jemisin discusses racism in the genre (on its pages and elsewhere) and the artist as its unlikely saviour

Beyoncé

Beyoncé

The Uncanny Valley: Enya’s Watermark Revisited, 25 Years On

A quarter-century since the release of Enya's hit album Watermark, Luke Turner professes his entirely non-ironic love for a beguilingly strange mainstream record that sent his musical tastes along uncanny paths

The Fall

Remainderer

Ulver

Messe I.X–VI.X

Terror In The Terroir: Resisting The Rebranding Of The Countryside

Resisting ideological efforts to brand the countryside as a place of safe, reassuring conservativism, argues Joe Kennedy, a host of art and music in 2013 powerfully emphasised the uncanny and traumatic aspects of rural Britain. Photograph by Luke Turner.

Robert Hampson Of Loop Reviews White Light/White Heat

As noted in his recent Bakers Dozen, the Velvet Underground's White Light/White Heat is one of Robert Hampson's all time favourites... so who better to review the recent reissue?

Sex Music For Gargoyles: Soft Cell’s The Art Of Falling Apart

Three decades after its release, Matthew Lindsay writes an in-depth exploration of Soft Cell's The Art Of Falling Apart, featuring interview contributions from Marc Almond and Dave Ball

DJ Rashad

Double Cup

Let Me Be Your Phantasy: Erol Alkan Interviewed

Erol Alkan has had a busy 2013, building a home studio and releasing great albums from Daniel Avery and Connan Mockasin via Phantasy, as well as his own debut EP. He speaks to Luke Turner about the legacy of his old nightclub Trash, his label, and what makes him tick. Photo by Todd Hart.

Wreath Lecture: Braying Crowds & The Accidental Death of Quiet Music

2013 was the year when crowds talking loudly at gigs became a universal aggravation, writes David Bennun. He asks why this is the case, and bids a fond farewell to quiet music in the live arena

Complete Communion: November / December’s Jazz Reviewed

A bumper edition of our jazz column, including Jamie Skey's albums of the year...

A Law Unto Themselves: World Of Twist In Their Own Words

Following the release of a re-mastered version of their first and only album, Quality Street, Jim Fry and Gordon King tell Julian Marszalek about a band out of step with the world

British Sea Power

From The Sea To The Land Beyond

William Onyeabor

Who Is William Onyeabor?

Crescendo Into Exodus: An Interview With Jar Moff

With the Athens-based sonic collagist's second album for PAN released next week, Matthew Kent catches up with Jar Moff to discuss Financial Glam, mimicking orchestral manoeuvres and becoming lost in music

World Of Twist

Quality Street (Reissue)

Groove Is In The Heart: An Interview With St. Vincent

Annie Clark tells John Freeman how a naked encounter with a rattlesnake, Ambien-induced hallucinations and groove-metallists Pantera all inspired her astonishing new ‘funeral party’ album

Tales Of The Uncanny: Sarah Angliss Interviewed

Ahead of her BFI Gothic show, composer, inventor and sound historian Sarah Angliss talks to Stuart Huggett about uncanny presences in music, mechanics and song

A World Of Dreaded Fear: Revisiting Band Aid’s Lyrical Crime Scene

Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it but, one year ahead of its 30th anniversary, Wyndham Wallace begs us to condemn, not celebrate, a song whose lyrics are uglier than Rupert Murdoch’s ballsack

R Kelly

Black Panties

Various Artists

Love Poetry And Revolution: A Journey Through The British Psychedelic And Underground Scenes 1966 To 1972

20 Years On: Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) Revisited

Simon Price looks back at how the many-headed Staten Island collective brought the motherfucking ruckus

Empathy On The Barricades: Billy Bragg Live

Tariq Goddard watches Billy Bragg live, and argues that you don't need to choose between the songs of love and songs of politics. Photos by Valerio Berdini.

Justified Fascination: Richard H Kirk Of Cabaret Voltaire Interviewed

Did Cabaret Voltaire lose their way when they lost Chris Watson? Far from it, they entered their imperial period... John Doran talks to Richard H Kirk

Two Poems By: Crispin Best

New writing continues in rude health this week with London-based poet and writer Crispin Best

Retrieving The Human: A Girl Is A Half-Formed Thing

Will Rees examines the harsh truths and disturbing realities presented by Eimear McBride in her Goldsmiths Prize-winning debut novel

Britpop’s Pale Fire: Suede Biographer David Barnett Interviewed

Aug Stone talks to the Suede biographer about the updated edition of Love & Poison

No Cuddly Toy: Nelson Mandela Remembered

David Stubbs looks at the life of Nelson Mandela, and argues that he should remembered as one of the greatest radicals of the twentieth century

“I’m Not Ready To Hang Up My Pop Hat” – Kim Wilde Interviewed

Jude Rogers spends the afternoon with a Metallica, James Blake and Christmas song loving Kim Wilde

Erasure

Snow Globe

Phill Niblock

Touch Five