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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

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