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The Streets Were Free: An Interview With Marie-Jeanne Berger

Christiana Spens talks to the artist and writer about recent political upheaval in Cairo, and how she and others have responded with satire, painting, and communal efforts to sustain creativity and spirit in the midst of revolution

Vatican Shadow

Remember Your Black Day

The Love That Dares Speak Its Name: Patrice Chéreau Remembered

After the death of Patrice Chéreau, Caspar Salmon asks why do obituaries still feel the need to skirt round sexuality?

Working On Instinct: These New Puritans’ Jack Barnett Interviewed

Jack Barnett talks to Leo Chadburn about composition, Elton John, tiring out orchestras, and how Field Of Reeds is a very personal album. TNPS portraits by Willy Vanderperre, live shot by Valerio Berdini

Tamikrest

Chatma

NYPC

NYPC

Heavens Of The World: An Interview With Julia Holter

The LA-based composer/songwriter speaks in-depth to Erin Lyndal Martin about the detailed interweaving of sound, story and atmosphere in her latest album Loud City Song

Various Artists

Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance 2

God’s Own Medicine: Wayne Hussey’s Favourite Albums

We put in a long-distance call to Brazil to ask The Mission frontman and former Sister Of Mercy about the gems in his record collection

Mazzy Star

Seasons Of Your Day

In A Birmingham Tongue: An Interview With Regis

Ahead of his Necklace Of Bites shows at Blackest Ever Black and Unsound this coming week, Filip Kalinowski speaks to the Downwards boss and UK techno figurehead about ritual, sound pressure, DIY as necessity and being half of "Britain's best-loved absurdist space rock duo"

Roll With It: Sir Bradley Wiggins On His Life In Music

Luke Turner was unable to convince Sir Bradley Wiggins that Kraftwerk were synth-wielding mods, but here the Tour De France and Olympic cycling champion talks about his love of music, and how Liam Gallagher inspired him in his youth

Downwards

Halha: 20 Years Of Downwards

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