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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

Chris Corsano & Bill Orcutt

The Raw And The Cooked

Kylesa

Ultraviolet

The Uncanny In The Everyday: Kemper Norton Interviewed

Sussex resident Kemper Norton's music tells tales of community conflict and tensions between urban and rural worldviews. He tells Russell Cuzner about prank calls to J.G. Ballard, burial chambers and water poisonings

For Yod’s Sake: The Source Family Reviewed

Sean Kitching examines a new documentary about Father Yod and The Source Family, one of 60s California's most far out experiments in alternative living. Mildly NSFW photographs.

Kanye West

Yeezus

Noel’s Straight Hedge VIII: Punk Straight From The Canon

Birthday boy Noel Gardner is back with his recommendations for all you who need some punk rock in your lives: this time around, Full Of Hell, Rough Kids, Concrete Cross, Sufferinfuck, Una Bèstia Incontrolable, Filthpact, Bad Noids, Perspex Flesh, Guilty Parents, The Boys and more

Death Becomes Her: Anna Von Hausswolff Interviewed

The Swedish singer-songwriter tells John Freeman how her album Ceremony was inspired by a love of drone, a fascination with death and the vocal cords of Diamanda Galás

Polysics

Weeeeeeeeee!!!

The World’s Best Punk Group Isolated And Enjoyed: NoMeansNo Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to John Wright about brawling anarchists, dubstep and about the never ending NoMeansNo tour

The Cleaners From Venus

BOX SET VOLUME 2

30 Years On: Pink Floyd’s The Final Cut Revisited

Rev. Rachel Mann looks at Pink Floyd's Falklands/Cold War panic album as a historical time capsule

David R. Morgan: Addicted To Plagiarism

Bobby Parker speaks to David Morgan - perhaps the most prolific poetry plagiarist of all time - about his work (and "his work"), looking to understand but left feeling a little like the hapless Clarice Starling

24 Hour Clinic: The Art Of The Poetry Anthology

Kit Caless gets to grips with Clinic III, the latest anthology from the South London poetry platform, and speaks to its editors about their selection process and the state of contemporary poetry

Melt Yourself Down

Melt Yourself Down

Is It A Turd? Man Of Steel Reviewed

****Contains spoilers****

C'mon, there was no way that headline was going unused. Mat Colegate reviews the latest attempt to bring Superman to the big screen

Zambient One

ZTT

Tape Adapter: May’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed

Ignoring the impending drop of big albums by Kanye and J. Cole, Gary Suarez finds some golden offerings from Travi$ Scott and Bryant Dope in his monthly mixtape round-up

From Chelmsford To São Paulo: An Interview With Gold Panda

Berlin-based producer Derwin tells John Freeman why visiting some of the “great cities of the world” lifted his heart and inspired the new Gold Panda album, Half Of Where You Live

Shearwater’s Jonathan Meiburg: Falklands Ornithologist

Shearwater's Jonathan Meiburg goes back to nature in the Falklands. Words and video by JM; photographs by JM and Andy Stanworth. Please click through to the Flickr galleries for photo captions and credits

Kode9

Rinse:22

Nerves Of Steel: Shooting The Shit With Bad Guys

Mat Colegate heads out with the iron men of Bad Guys for a day of clay pigeon shooting. But how will he fare when pitted against London's premier scuzz rockers?

Is 2013 The Year for Militant Feminism in Music?

Feminism has been mainly absent in popular music for the last decade, says Steph Kretowicz, until now...

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