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For Those About To Smooth Jazz: Sade’s Stronger Than Pride Revisted

Chad Parkill revisits one of his earliest musical memories: listening to Sade on a hippy commune in the Australian bush in a piece looking at Stronger Than Pride 30 years after its release

The Focus Group

The Elektrik Karousel

‘I’m A Walking Bordello!’: Charlemagne Palestine Interviewed

The New York artist/composer sits down for an in-depth interview with Erin Lyndal Martin, to discuss animism and stuffed toys, ringing church bells in '60s New York, sacred musics and trance states

The Clang Of The Yankee Reaper: Van Dyke Parks Interviewed

Taylor Parkes talks to the American songwriting legend

Neon Neon

Praxis Makes Perfect

Queen Sized Polly: PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me Revisited

25 years after its release, John Freeman looks back at Polly Jean Harvey’s torrid and brilliant second album, Rid Of Me, a slate-cleaning ball of fury that would shock and awe in equal measure

Roots & Branches: An Interview With Tree

With the second volume of his Sunday School mixtapes just released, Chicago rapper/producer Tree speaks with Kyle Ellison about the importance of a good voice and the city's current generation of hip-hop and rap artists

Chance The Rapper

Acid Rap

Singing No Evil: Jad Fair Of Half Japanese Interviewed

Jad Fair has been making visceral outsider art and music for nearly four decades now. April Welsh talks to him about the reissue of the Half Japanese debut, Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts

This Is War: John Robb Of Goldblade Interviewed

As Goldblade prepare to unleash their ferocious sixth album, The Terror of Modern Life, Ged Babey asks mob orator John Robb why the Punk Rock Wars will never be over. Contains a stream of four new Goldblade tracks

Mikal Cronin

MCII

The Month’s Electronic Music: Pirate Radio Techno

In this month's electronic music column, Rory Gibb casts an ear over a slew of new UK club music releases, plus new records by Laurel Halo and Kyle Hall

This Must Be The Plaice: Fish’s Favourite Albums

The former Marillion frontman now solo singer-songwriter, picks out the gems in his record collection

Faintly Transcendental: On The Poetry Of Graham Foust

Scrutinising the influences, from time and place to Joy Division, and stylistic idiosyncrasies which together make up the work of this ambitious American poet, Alex Niven provides a guide for the Foust-uninitiated

Cruel Britannia: Ian Cobain Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to the author about his new book - Cruel Britannia - political secrecy, prison camps in London and Guantanamo and the inevitable hostile reaction to investigative journalism

Mulatu Astatke On The Strange World Of Mulatu Astatke

Ahead of his headlining set on the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at Field Day on May 25th, Mulatu Astatke talks Richie Troughton through his life and work

Lost In Translation: The Great Gatsby Reviewed

Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Gatsby is fiercely stylish, writes Simon Jablonski, but fails to transfer the subtleties of Fitzgerald's novel to the big screen

Standish/Carlyon

Deleted Scenes

Breaking The Silence: An Interview With Colleen

In our latest French music column, Rockfort's David McKenna speaks with Colleen about how falling out of love with music, and reigniting that love again, have informed her first album in six years

Vampire Weekend

Modern Vampires Of The City

RP Boo

Legacy

Films Through The Window: The Cinema Of Bruno Dumont

Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan is finally released on DVD this week. To mark the release Anthony Nield looks back over the director's awkward and fascinating body of work

The Scaramanga Six

Phantom Head

Test Match Music: The Phoenix Foundation Talk Cricket

New Zealand's Phoenix Foundation are cricket fanatics and have described their latest album Fandango as 'test match music'. Duncan Greive accompanied them to a test match between New Zealand and England and found them waxing lyrical about cricket and music

Changeling: Alison Moyet Interviewed

Following the release of her new album the minutes and the one-off Yazoo performances of recent years, Alison Moyet looks back over her musical career with Ian Wade

Owiny Sigoma Band

Power Punch

Sam Amidon

Bright Sunny South

Wide Open Spaces: Standish/Carlyon Interviewed

Former Devastations men Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon release their sumptuously smooth, dubbed-out debut album this week. Steph Kretowicz catches up with Standish to chat leather hats and differences between Australia and London

Many Rivers Crossed: Jimmy Cliff Interviewed

John Doran talks to a true original and the owner of one of the sweetest voices in popular music, Mr Jimmy Cliff

Tape Adapter: April’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed

In his second column, Gary Suarez finds the much-hyped Chance The Rapper's second tape wanting, while better efforts from Big K.R.I.T. and Cassie redeem April's mixtape haul

Adam Thirlwell On The Great Gatsby

In our final short visit to West Egg before the release of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, Adam Thrilwell, author of Kapow! and Granta Best Young British Novelist, discusses the power of glamour in Fitzgerald's novel

I Am Demo Suzuki! May’s Unsigned Music