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Jon Hopkins

How I Live Now

Transcendental Mediation: An Interview With The Orb

With The Orb's new retrospective box set recently released, Exotic Pylon lizard lord Jonny Mugwump speaks to Alex Patterson about industrial ambient dub, the social conditions that fed into the 90s rave explosion, and working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Recombination Therapy: An Interview With Larry Gus

The richly textured pop of Larry Gus' latest album Years Not Living, released through DFA, emerges from a process of sound recombination inspired equally by literature and mathematics. He speaks to Ned Raggett about Borges, Ballard and a love of density in sound

Chrome Hoof

Chrome Black Gold

Zing Went The Strings: Tom Moulton’s Disco Remixes Reviewed

"You wait forty years for a boxset of Tom Moulton Philly disco remixes on heavyweight vinyl, and then two turn up at once." John Doran finds himself in black plastic heaven

The Devil

The Devil

Shine On: Peter Frampton’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of his Roundhouse show tomorrow night, the singer-songwriter, former Humble Pie man and guitarist extraordinaire gives us a rundown of his top LPs

A Life Bizarre: Sheila E Interviewed

Legendary Latin-jazz percussionist SHEILA E gives Simon Price a ticking-off for asking too many Prince questions. And tells him about her new album, her autobiography, her charity work, and her relationship the Almighty. Oh, and also about Prince. (A bit)

Red Fang

Whales And Leeches

The Dread Magnificence Of Perversity: Teeth Of The Sea Interviewed

John Calvert talks to Teeth Of The Sea about sex, violence and D.I.S.C.O.

Two Poems By: Roddy Lumsden

This week's new writing, once again in the form of two top drawer poems, comes from London-based Roddy Lumsden

Borders Become Flexi-Permeable: Heather Phillipson Interviewed

The artist and poet speaks with Sam Buchan-Watts about meat-space, The Idiot, trial-and-error-ing, and the slipperiness of the term 'essay'

Water-Boarding And Romanticism: Tom De Freston Interviewed

Christiana Spens talks to the literary-inspired artist, delving further into the horror, politics and aesthetics of violence that are the subject matter of his most recent paintings

Cement-imental Journey – Faust: Where Roads Cross Reviewed

Richard Fontenoy checks out a new double DVD documenting the story of the most mercurial of all Krautrock bands

Boy George

This Is What I Do

Simon Fisher Turner

The Epic Of Everest

Remember It Well: An Interview With Ted Chippington

Ted Chippington’s provocatively dry performances on the 80s gig circuit influenced a generation of stand ups but, as he tells Stuart Huggett, he never said he was a comedian

The Stranger

Watching Dead Empires In Decay

Jonathan Wilson

Fanfare

Gary Glitter, Re-Writing Musical History & The Danger Of Censorship

Gary Glitter has been omitted from a recent major compilation about glam. Johnny Sharp argues that such censorship and re-writing of musical history is dangerous, no matter how heinous the artist's crime. Photo from Shutterstock.

Darkside

Psychic

The Month’s Electronic Music: You Know That You’re Toxic

In this month's electronic music column, Rory Gibb surveys wonkified house mutants, sinister urban atmospheres, a modular meltdown and a truly tremendous debut album

Spencer Hickman Of Death Waltz Records’ Favourite Horror Soundtracks

Spencer Hickman founded and runs Death Waltz Records, a label that puts out classic and obscure horror soundtracks in mouthwatering vinyl reissue packages. In a Baker’s Dozen Halloween Special, he chooses his favourite OSTs for us

Mika Vainio

Kilo

If I Had A Hammer – Thor: The Dark World Reviewed

Thor-midable or merely Thor-mulaic? Mat Colegate casts his cycloptic single eye over the latest in the Marvel superheroes franchise

The Listener Is The Key: Nils Frahm Interviewed

Tristan Bath meets the acclaimed and well loved German composer and musician to talk about the importance of good production

The Dismemberment Plan

Uncanney Valley

Sonic Router 030: EPROM’s Fundamental Particles

With his new album Halflife just released, Sonic Router's Oli Marlow catches up with US producer EPROM to discuss his thunderous, soundsystem-slaying strain of beat music

Laurel Halo

Chance Of Rain

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

A new set from Chicago's Lil Durk proves to be the highlight of this month's haul, while elsewhere there's Pro Era jetsam from CJ Fly following in Joey Bada$$' wake

Let’s Take A Walk: Clara Hill Interviewed

With her fourth album, former Jazzanova protégé Clara Hill has reinvented herself as a singer of experimental indie-electronic torch songs. Wyndham Wallace asks her how she found her true voice

Bitchin’ Bajas

Bitchitronics