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Noel’s Straight Hedge IX: Blackened Punk, Or Don’t Shoot The Messenger

In his latest punk and hardcore column, Noel Gardner dares tread into the juncture where black metal meets punk, from Raspberry Bulbs and Ildjarn to Detroit's ribald leathermen Shitfucker (pictured)

Trance Induction: An Interview With Tal National

Nigerien ensemble Tal National create joyful, extended, hypnotic grooves that draw from their home country's varied musical traditions. With their first internationally distributed album just released, founder Hamadal Moumine speaks with Richie Troughton about selling his own group's CDs at roundabouts and taking their sound to the wider world

The Oscillation

From Tomorrow

Kneale Before Satan: The Witches Reviewed

Mat Colegate settles down with a glass of hemlock to view the new release of The Witches, a 1966 occult horror film from the pen of cult scribe Nigel Kneale

Sonic Bloom

Night Beats

Four Tet

Beautiful Rewind

Slushy Guts

A Host Of Freakish Others Revolving In The Future

Beer & Thank You: Bill Callahan Interviewed

The singer-songwriter talks to Chad Parkhill about the influence of dub music on his new album Dream River, the relationship between repose and death and how he now feels about his past life as Smog

Music For The Lizard Brain: Ty Bulmer Of NYPC’s Favourite Albums

With their new album out yesterday, the band's singer-songwriter picks out her own top long-players

Dream Recall: An Interview With Faint Wild Light

James Ginzburg, one half of electronic duo Emptyset, tells John Freeman how new project Faint Wild Light helped rekindle his interest in music after making dance tunes "became like playing a video game"

Through The Never: Lars Ulrich Interviewed

Lars Ulrich explains to a group of journalists, including our very own Tristan Bath, the thinking behind Metallica's new narrative based concert film Through The Never and drops a crazy hint about their new album...

Daniel Avery

Drone Logic

Embracing The Void: Stefan Jaworzyn On The Birth Of Skullflower

Bad acid and even worse vibes went into the unique and disturbing early material of Skullflower. John Doran takes Stefan Jaworzyn on a trip down misery lane...

Moby

Innocents

An Alien Of Extraordinary Ability: Gary Numan Interviewed

Gary Numan is back, bigger and bolder than ever. Dom Smith catches up with him to talk how he finds inspiration in the unlikeliest of places

Two Poems By: Amy Key

This week's new writing comes from London-based poet Amy Key, with two pieces from her forthcoming collection Luxe

A Scene In Between – A Visual History Of Indie Fashion

Adrian Lobb gets to grips with Sam Knee's pictorial history of Indie via the Jesus and Mary Chain, postcards from Morrissey and the ubiquitous influence of the Scottish weather

Everything Is Fragmented: An Interview With Bob Stanley

Phoebe Hurst speaks to the music journalist and founding member of Saint Etienne about the decline of chart music, his new book and the magic of Britney's 'Baby One More Time'

Haim

Days Are Gone

Teeth Of The Sea

Master

A Cosmic Love Affair: Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia

Third eye pilot Julian Marszelek opens wide to absorb the wonders of the second Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia

20 Years On: The Boo Radleys’ Giant Steps Revisited

Charlie Frame revisits the magpie indie psychedelic album that first blew his mind two decades ago

North-South Divide: In Conversation With David Peace & Luke Haines

Stuart Evers speaks to the rock 'n' roll auteur and Faber's superstar author about the role of the outsider, the shadow history of music and mining nostalgia

Tropic Of Cancer

Restless Idylls

King Khan & The Shrines

Idle No More

How The Baby Boomers Stole Music With Myths Of A Golden Age

Luke Turner despairs of John Lennon tooth cloning and the cultural stranglehold the baby boomer generation have over culture and the media... and asks, in our diverse modern age, might it be starting to weaken?

Music For Dark Rooms: An Interview With Daniel Avery

Daniel Avery's debut album Drone Logic finds the London-based DJ and producer tripping out into expansive, lysergic techno territory. He speaks with Rory Gibb about the enduring appeal of DJing and a love for tracks that blindside you on a dancefloor

The Golden Section: John Foxx’s Favourite Albums

The electronics pioneer pens his own Baker's Dozen and gives us a slightly different twist on the 13 favourites formula

For Whom The Film Rolls: Metallica: Through The Never Reviewed

Cinematic rock folly, ahoy! Tristan Bath views Metallica's new concert film, Through The Never, and tries to contain its sheer epic grandeur in mere words

Yuck

Glow And Behold

Not Pleading The Fifth: Dizzee Rascal Speaks

Laura Snoad travels to Dirtee Stank Studios in South London to speak to Dizzee Rascal about his new album The Fifth, southern rap and the London riots

Hunter Complex

Heat