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Lucky Star: Madonna’s Debut Album, 35 Years On

Matthew Lindsay studies the blonde's ambition to become one of the biggest stars of the 80s with her self-titled album of 1983

Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs

Clarietta

Jagwar Ma

Howlin

Emotional Experimentation: Ghostpoet’s Favourite Albums

With an excellent second album under his belt, Ghostpoet picks out his own favourite LPs from his collection

Scout Niblett

It's Up To Emma

Besnard Lakes

Until In Excess, Imperceptible UFO

INTERVIEW: Matt Berry

We talk to the actor and multi-instrumentalist about his excellent new album, Kill The Wolf

From Mercury Rev To Variety Lights: David Baker Interviewed

Eighteen years since his last album, Mercury Rev founder David Baker has returned with his new band Variety Lights. Stuart Huggett hears him lay some myths to rest

The Lay Of The Land: An Interview With Hwyl Nofio

Steve Parry's latest album as Hwyl Nofio finds him exploring personal and collective histories in his home region of South Wales. He speaks with Kevin Mccaighy about the rise and fall of industry and wandering the valleys with a field recorder

April March & Aquaserge

April March & Aquaserge

“Less Is More In My World”: Nile Rodgers Speaks

Nile Rodgers talks to Helen Donlon about Madonna's dazzling work rate, the still-present racism of the music industry and Keith Richards playing barman in his local

Saltland

I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us

B.E.F.

Music Of Quality & Distinction, Volume 3: Dark

Iain Banks: The Culture And His Work Remembered

Following the acclaimed Scottish author's death last weekend, Sean Kitching reflects on a hugely prolific career

There Are Other Worlds: Stellar OM Source Interviewed

With new album Joy One Mile, Christelle Gualdi turns the crystalline harmonies of her early synthesiser music towards gauzy, immersive club tracks. She speaks with Rory Gibb about a chance encounter with a TB-303, a love of synthesis and working with Kassem Mosse

These New Puritans

Field Of Reeds

Beady Eye

BE

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood

Black Pudding

Dr Who As Cosmic Clochard: Why We Don’t Need Another Topman Dr

With Matt Smith soon stepping down from his role as Dr Who, Robert Barry argues that after a run of actors who look like they've stepped right out of Topman, it's time to find a Time Lord more in tune with the series' darker origins

Myth Congeniality: John Gray Interviewed

Nick Talbot (aka Gravenhurst) talks to contemporary thinker and Quietus hero John Gray about The Silence Of Animals, Straw Dogs and the failures of humanism

Love & Marbles: Gilbert Hernandez Interviewed

DJ and comics artist Sina Sparrow talks to Gilbert Hernandez about comics, sexuality, and his new book Marble Season

Astral Travel Agent: Not Waving Interviewed

For his new project, Alessio Natalizia of Walls draws inspiration from the theory of remote viewing to create "sound for places I have never been before". With his album Umwelt just released, he speaks with Joe Clay about pseudoscience and imaginary locations

Plastic Surgery Disasters: Behind The Candelabra Reviewed

Patrick Smith reviews Steven Soderbergh's biopic of ostentatious ivory-tickler, Liberace

Moonage Daydreamer: Johnny Dean Interviewed

On the eve of his first show for 15 years, ex-Menswear singer Johnny Dean talks Bowie, Britpop and living with Asperger’s

Disclosure

Settle

State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting author talks Filth, Porno, post-UK politics, and how he should have cut Margaret Thatcher in on his royalties in an interview at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Mr Vast

Grievous Bodily Charm

Moritz Von Oswald & Juan Atkins

Borderland

30 Years On: New Order’s Power Corruption And Lies Revisited

Ned Raggett, our man in Orange County, CA, ponders the magnificence of New Orders second long player

Gold Dust Of Our Musical Worth: Ian Anderson’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall, the Jethro Tull man picks out his thirteen finest albums

William Tyler

The Impossible Truth

Less Laptop, More Reality: Jon Hopkins Interviewed

Brian Eno, King Creosote and Coldplay collaborator Jon Hopkins talks to Luke Turner about his latest solo album Immunity, bringing reality into his music, and the power of hypnosis