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Wardruna

Yggdrasil

Holden

The Inheritors

Theory Into Practice: Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed

The Southbank Centre's annual Meltdown Festival took place this month, curated by Yoko Ono. We sent a crack team of writers to cover events, which explored themes of activism, feminism and the future. Words by Emily Bick, Charlie Frame, Chris Roberts, Steph Kretowicz, April Welsh, David Bennun, Tristan Bath, Joe Kennedy and Maddy Sparham. Photos by Katja Ogrin

Rose Windows

The Sun Dogs

Full Clip: June’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed

Gary Suarez, fires up Full Clip, a sister column of hip hop album reviews to compliment his monthly Tape Adapter feature

Ruff Around The Edges: Simian Mobile Disco Talk Live Performance

Simian Mobile Disco's second live album offers an oblique answer to a series of questions about live dance music. Chad Parkhill presses the duo of James Ford and Jas Shaw about their motives in releasing this document of their show

Conqueror – John Grant Interviewed

Ian Wade talks to the inimitable John Grant about Devon, modular synths and how LCD Soundsystem make his prairie oysters vibrate with joy

Dean Blunt

The Redeemer

Ghost Outfit

I Want You To Destroy Me

‘A Long Piece About Nothing’: Wanda Group Interviewed

As Wanda Group, Louis Johnstone creates beautiful, decayed landscapes of tape crackle, hiss and distortion. Ahead of a live show in London this Friday, he tells Matthew Kent about "having no clue what I'm doing" and dedicating albums to his now-junked old red car

Poltergeist

Your Mind Is A Box (Let Us Fill It With Wonder)

Avoiding A Career In Music: About Group Talk Improv

Tristan Bath talks to Alexis Taylor, John Coxon and Pat Thomas about About Group's method, covering 'Walk On By' and their third album Between The Walls. Photographs courtesy of Ben Stockley

Rodion G. A.

The Lost Tapes

Some Sort Of Magic: An Interview With James Holden

With enigmatic and exploratory new album The Inheritors, Border Community boss James Holden trips further beyond the walls of the club into wild, elemental territories. He speaks with Harry Sword about the importance of throwing off limitations of technology, mindset and genre

Caught By The Fuzz: The Black Angels Interviewed

Ahead of a series of shows in the UK, Ben Graham speaks with Austin's fuzzed-out voyagers the Black Angels, to discuss psychedelic music's power to create connections and change perceptions

Amanda Palmer On Mindfulness And Gender

"I'd sooner write a song than buy a gun", Amanda Palmer tells Erin Lyndal Martin

La Femme

Psycho Tropical Berlin

CSS

Planta

Sailing The Seas Of Cheese Revisited: Les Claypool Of Primus Interviewed

Craig Terlino speaks with Les Claypool to discuss what to expect from this new deluxe edition, how the album has held up since its release, and to see whether it's still impossible to put your finger on their sound after all these years. Photos by Valerio Berdini

Reality Check: An Encomium For The “Dying” Novel

Having heard, a thousand times or more, that the novel is a dead or dying art Thomas Brewster considers just how true that war cry is and where contemporary fiction might or must go from here

Yawn Of The Dead: World War Z Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan rips the guts out of the latest Hollywood undead-athon

Matt Berry

Kill The Wolf

A Journey Through Binary Britain: These New Puritans Live

Tim Burrows goes to Heaven to watch These New Puritans bring the music of Field Of Reeds to life, and finds an often misunderstood band channelling the music of their Thames Estuary forebears. Photography by Valerio Berdini

Nearly Perfect But Not Quite: Lloyd Cole’s Favourite Albums

The former Commotions man rifles through his record collection to pick his top 13 records

Kingdom Of Not

Journey To The Far Side Of The Room

Black Sun Roof!

4 Black Suns & A Sinister Rainbow

Emika

DVA

He Made The Small Screen Huge: James Gandolfini Remembered

David Stubbs looks back at the life and legacy of James Gandolfini, who in his role as Tony Soprano changed our perception of television, and showed us not that criminals are just like us, but we are like the criminals SPOILER ALERT if you've not seen the Sopranos

Dance Dance Dance: Things Learned At Sonar Festival 2013

Mad dog Englishmen Rory Gibb and Luke Turner go out in the Barcelona sun for Sonar Festival 2013, where they muse upon fantastic performances by the likes of Skrillex, Kraftwerk, Raime, Pet Shop Boys, Karenn, Diamond Version, Vatican Shadow, Liars, Prins Thomas, Todd Terje... all together now... OOOOF! Photos thanks to Sonar Press

Stockings And All: An Interview With Kirin J Callinan

Sexuality, masculinity, and childhood form an unholy thematic triumvirate in the work of Kirin J Callinan, who is about to release his debut album Embracism. Following a ferocious London show, he sat down with Josh Hall to discuss the split between his onstage and offstage personae

Julian Cope

Revolutionary Suicide

Sonic Router 028: Desto Evades (The) Trap

To paraphrase Admiral Ackbar: "Trap - it's a trap!" With this ethos in mind, Finnish producer Desto talks to Oli Marlow about his new album Emptier Streets