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Omar Souleyman

Wenu Wenu

Polica

Shulamith

Strike A Pose? Voguing, Ballroom & Cultural Appropriation

Niall Connolly explores some of the more thorny issues surrounding cultural appropriation of music and culture from strongly localised or marginalised communities - in this case, voguing and ballroom in the US

Shopping

Consumer Complaints

Infuse, Confuse, Provoke: Mats Gustafsson Interviewed

Stewart Smith talks to sax master Mats Gustafsson about a flurry of activity surrounding his bands The Thing and Fire!

30 Years On: Cocteau Twins’ Head Over Heels Revisited

Julian Marszalek looks back three decades at the Cocteau Twins' second album and finds a band transcending their influences

‘My Anger Problem’ By Scott McClanahan

In this excerpt from his just-released, Tyrant-published novel, Hill William, West-Virginia-based author Scott McClanahan shines harsh light on the frustration time and place can breed and the ways it can transform its captive audience

Dreaming Magical Animals: Renaud Dillies Interviewed

Aug Stone talks to the French comics artist about his wondrous anthropomorphic creations

Connan Mockasin

Caramel

Dynamic Range Compression: Are The Loudness Wars Over?

Nick Southall speaks to American mastering engineer Bob Katz and Hookworms about how, with the launch of iTunes Radio, the tide is finally turning against full dynamic range compression

Livity Sound

Livity Sound

Space Is Deep: Gravity Reviewed

Alfonso Cuarón's cosmic breath-taker floats into Jason Ward's orbit

Lady Gaga

Artpop

Radio-Activity: An Interview With Felix Kubin

With his great new album Zemsta Plutona just released, the unique German sci-fi synth-pop explorer and sound artist speaks to David Stubbs about musical deconstruction, radio art, and reconnecting Germany with the culture of Eastern Europe

Horns Up Ya Shitters! The Best Recent Metal Reviewed

Riffs, riffs and more bloody, bludgeoning, groove-laden riffs? That's right, it's that time again - Toby Cook returns to drag you kicking and screaming through the best metal of the last few months

King Crimson

Red (Reissue)

Blood, Bread & Bros: Sam Herlihy On The Dude Burger

Our mighty (white) food writer Sam Herlihy is back! WARNING LACHRYMAL READERS! Contains heartbreaking scene where the Pillsbury Doughboy cradles dying gun shot victim. DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU!

Humble Pie

Performance: Rockin' the Filmore (Box Set)

Bottomless Pit

Shade Perennial

Out There: Flying Saucer Attack’s Debut LP, 20 Years On

Nick Talbot of Gravenhust celebrates the Bristolian lo-fi brilliance of early Flying Saucer Attack

Rorschach Effect: Nate Young Talks Regression & Wolf Eyes

Nate Young has had a busy year, presiding over the return of Wolf Eyes on ferocious form and guiding his Regression solo electronic project into hypnotic zones. He speaks to Ian Maleney about improvisation, manual labour, and how Wolf Eyes are becoming even more unhinged with age

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