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30 Years On: Life’s Too Good By The Sugarcubes

"Cheer up goth!" says Emily Mackay as she revisits The Sugarcubes' good taste-defying debut

Searching For The Cave Man: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live

Nick Cave gets behind the piano for some slower songs from the Bad Seeds back catalogue at the Brighton Dome, but even that can't stop Luke Turner from marvelling at a band on top of their game. Photos by Neil Thomson

Agnes Obel

Aventine

Songs Are Syringes: Kristin Hersh On Her Favourite Tracks

Throwing Muses are releasing Purgatory/Paradise, their first album in a decade, so Kristin Hersh met up with John Doran to discuss her favourite records (not albums)

CAVE

Threace

A Restless Feeling: Lou Reed’s Music Remembered

Alfred Soto casts an ear back through the musical history of the Velvet Underground legend and brilliant rock musician, who died on Sunday aged 71

Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited

The Metal Machine Trio tour of the UK and Europe starts this Sunday. Their leader Lou Reed has always trod the fine line between 'rock & roll star' and 'serious artist', and never more so than on his 1975 album, _Metal Machine Music_. John Doran asks him about this period . . . and waits a painfully long time for the answers

A Walk On The Mild Side: Lou Reed And Mick Rock Interviewed

Julian Marszalek is pleasantly surprised to find that Lou Reed and Mick Rock are a great double act... He talks to them about their enduring relationship, and new book of photos

Two Poems By: Mark Waldron

This week's bulging package of new writing is delivered in the form of two poems by London-based Mark Waldron

The Body

Christs, Redeemers

Arcade Fire

Reflektor

Mein Camp Memoirs: Luke Haines Reviews Morrissey’s Autobiography

Mr Luke Haines, musician, author, artist and wearer of excellent hats, reviews Morrissey's autobiography

John Peel Remembered, By Orbital, Pulp, The Fall & More

Ahead of the annual John Peel Day celebrations, some of the legendary DJ's favourite artists remember how he championed their music. Interviews by Dave Simpson

X Factor: The Lost Tapes – When Simon Cowell Met Kraftwerk

Sweat! Passion! Vibrato! David Stubbs unearths Simon Cowell's lost tapes of unsuccessful auditions from Public Enemy, Patti Smith, Kraftwerk, Mark E Smith and PJ Harvey

Song To The Siren: Pop Culture & The Warning Klaxon

Robert Barry explores the growing ubiquity of the warning siren in popular culture, all the way from When Worlds Collide to Jason Derulo's 'Don't Wanna Go Home', via hip hop, the rave explosion, sonic weaponry and the panic sonics of contemporary pop

Tindersticks

Across Six Leap Years

Mission Impossible: My ‘NME 500 Greatest Albums’ Voting Hell

NME veteran Johnny Sharp (formerly Cigarettes) contributed to the magazine's 500 Best LPs Of Old Time. Here, he muses on the worth and mechanics of such a thing, and concludes there's only one thing for it: drink

The Space Between One & Two: Sons Of Kemet Interviewed

London's Shabaka Hutchings and Tom Skinner sit down with Tristan Bath to discuss the free-flowing and vibrant grooves of their new quartet Sons Of Kemet, and how they emerge from a desire to explore the hidden currents linking the world's musics together

Matana Roberts

Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile

Shilpa Ray

It’s All Self-Fellatio

Blood Sucking Freaks: Herzog’s Nosferatu Revisited

To mark the BFI's Gothic season, Yasmeen Khan reassesses Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu The Vampyr in light of FW Murnau's 1922 predecessor

Gonga

Concrescence

30 Years On: Soul Mining By The The Revisited

Joseph Burnett looks back to The The's debut proper and finds one of the greatest albums of the 80s

Chased By A Sea Beast: An Interview With Robedoor

Ahead of their performance at this weekend's Bring To Light festival, Glen Mcleod speaks to L.A. duo Robedoor about their ritualistic dungeon psychedelia

Complete Communion: Jamie Skey On Current Jazz Part Two

From festivals to gigs to new albums, Jamie Skey gives his opinions on jazz from the last month

A Brave New World Of Sound: Joakim Sundström Interviewed

Ahead of his talk at Oval Space Cinema tonight, Kitty Lester talks to sound designer Joakim Sundström about Berberian Sound Studio and the future of cinematic audio

Black Hearted Brother

Stars Are Our Home

A Wild Combination: Italian Duo Satelliti Interviewed

John Doran speaks to Andrea Polato and Marco Dalle Luche of the superb genre defying duo Satelliti about electric Miles and transporting the listener to a different space

Facing The Other Way: Ivo Watts-Russell & Vaughan Oliver On 4AD Records

Wyndham Wallace talks to 4AD's founder and chief design artist about the history of the label and Martin Aston's new book

Respect Due: Marshall Jefferson Interviewed

John Doran talks to the Chicago house producer and DJ about times past and present

Cass McCombs

Big Wheel And Others

Two Poems By: Rebecca Perry

This week's dose of new writing medicine comes to us from London-based Rebecca Perry by way of two poems