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Sweet Narcotic Reverie: An Interview With The Lucid Dream

On their newly released debut album Carlisle's neo-psych trainwreckers The Lucid Dream inject their music with equal parts pop-suss and blistering noise. The band's Mark Emmerson speaks with Ben Graham about avoiding psychedelia's stereotypical trappings and working in isolation

Out Of The Drawing Room: Atoms For Peace Live

Last week, Atoms For Peace took their Drawing Room shop and installation to the Enterprise in Camden, and brought album AMOK alive in the Camden Roundhouse. Dan Richards reports. Live photographs by Valerio Berdini, Drawing Room by Dan Richards.

What’s The Name Of My Nation? Dancing Shangaan Electro With Nozinja

Melissa Bradshaw likes dancing, writing and writing about dancing, so was the ideal person to learn Shangaan dancing for the Quietus...

Damn Dirty Japes: Planet Of The Apes (1963) Revisited

Fifty years after its initial publication - and seven ever-dwindling feature films later - Eli Lee examines Pierre Boulle's classic inversion sci-fi novel and asks if the questions it poses are still relevant today

Things We Learned At: Latitude Festival 2013

Laurie Tuffrey and Charlotte Wu set up camp in a field in Suffolk to watch Kraftwerk, (almost) get a chrysanthemum from Cat Power and doff their caps to “sexy motherfucker” John Cooper Clarke

Fuck Buttons

Slow Focus

Lustmord

The Word As Power

Rock Of Ages: Mick Jagger At 70 & The Rise Of Pop’s Elders

Fucking Mick Jagger, says David Stubbs, he'll never stop... why should he? But he could choose some better birthday party guests...

“Magnificent, Fascinating & Appalling”: The Birth Of A Nation Revisited

David Bennun re-examines D.W. Griffith's troubling silent masterpiece and discovers some disturbing parallels with the current state of the American right

Magical Unrealism: Julian House Of Focus Group Interviewed

"We’ve always thought of the music we release as being like soundtracks to fun, surreal dreams", Julian House tells Robin Turner

Tantra

Disco Recharge: Tantra The Collection

Go West (Again): A Second Irish Rum Music Special

What is it in the abandoned car parks and the landscape of the West of Ireland that, right now, makes it such a fertile place for out-there sounds? Ian Maleney reviews some recent releases, and previews upcoming live events in our second Rum Music West Of Ireland special

Dazzle-Camo: An Interview With Zebra Katz

With his recent DRKLNG mixtape, New York rapper Zebra Katz followed up last year's freakily infectious 'Ima Read' in similarly sinister, sub-loaded style. Laura Snoad met up with him to discuss investigations of language and the eternal appeal of bass

Grant Hart

The Argument

Sad Old Punks Should Rise Above Kristen Stewart’s Black Flag Crush

So some punks are up in arms that Twilight's Kristen Stewart likes Black Flag? Change the record, says Jamie Thomson

The Mic Is Mightier Than The Sword: Anne-James Chaton Interviewed

With his new collaborative album with Andy Moor just released, Robert Barry meets one of the most enigmatic voices in spoken word, to talk concrete poetry and working with The Ex and Alva Noto

Not For Commercial Reasons: An Interview With F*** Buttons

Joe Clay talks to Andrew Hung and Ben Power about how their friendship has developed, why cheap synths are useful and Andrew Weatherall's military nomenclature

Devo

Hardcore

A Disease With A Long Incubation: Blue Öyster Cult’s Imaginos

Joseph Stannard charts the protracted gestation of BÖC's most fearless gesture, Imaginos, which turns 25 this month, and recalls the impact it had on him as a teenager

The Art Of Noisy: Electric Nights And The Sonic World Of Luigi Russolo

David Stubbs visits the BFI to ponder the effect of talkies on avant garde music

Tales Of An Unspoken Plague: Nadine Shah Interviewed

John Freeman meets up with Nadine Shah to find out how her debut album, Love Your Dum And Mad, was shaped by "old jazz dudes" and inspired by tragedy

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The Lighthouse Project

30 Years On: Talking Heads’ Speaking In Tongues Revisited

What's in a name? Chad Parkhill looks at the language of Talking Heads

Epic Fail: How Mike Patton Murdered Faith No More

30 years ago a man called Chuck Mosley joined Faith No More. Our man Jamie Thomson mourns the day he left

Bobby Parker Loses The Plot: Review By Fire

Upon finding the sole surviving manuscript of his first and only novel, poet Bobby Parker undertakes a ritual exorcism of his demons

Thirty Years On: Japan’s Oil On Canvas Revisited

Joseph Burnett salutes Japan, the kind of band who can bow out on a live album

David Lynch

The Big Dream

How Lowland Can You Go? Things Learned At Roadburn

Between the beer, the bicycles and the cops, Jamie Thomson was lucky to make it back from Roadburn in the Netherlands in one piece. Here is his (possibly) final report from the festival

A Place To Meditate: An Interview With Ikonika

Hyperdub's resident producer of dazzling, synth-ridden music tells Daniel Cohen about how new album Aerotropolis was inspired by a desire for rawness in sound and a fear of flying

Bring Out Your Dead: Cathedral’s Lee Dorrian Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks to Lee Dorrian and mourns the passing of the mighty Cathedral

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Complicated Sublimity: Evan Parker Interviewed

Following the recent release of two archive live sessions, Stewart Smith talks to the virtuoso saxophonist about his vast back catalogue of recordings and collaborations. Photograph courtesy of Caroline Forbes