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Deviated Spectrum: Mick Farren Interviewed

Ben Graham speaks in-depth to the enormously prolific musician, journalist, novelist and sometime-mistaken-medium about his immense body of work, spanning four and a half decades and close to the entire culture spectrum

Goodbye Girls, Hello Heaven? To Nicola Roberts By Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat went along to Girls Aloud's last-ever Glasgow gig and was so moved by the experience that he penned a letter to Nicola Roberts. The Quietus is his postman, and you can read his perfumed billet-doux below

Suede

Bloodsports

30 Years On: Morrissey’s Viva Hate Revisited

Thirty years after its release, John Freeman looks back at an album fuelled by hatred which contains some of the finest songs of Steven Patrick Morrissey’s solo career

Radical Abstraction: Andy Votel On Andrzej Korzynski

In advance of a talk this Friday at the Kinoteka Polish Film Festival at London's Rich Mix, Andy Votel talks to John Doran about the story of Polish film composer and leftfield music pioneer Andrzej Korzynski and his "freer than space jazz" synthesiser music

The Dark Side Of Normal: Yorgos Lanthimos Interviewed

Rob White interviews Yorgos Lanthimos, director of Dogtooth, about his most recent film Alps, out now on DVD. All images ©Yorgos Lanthimos

Laura Mvula

Sing To The Moon

Dinos Chapman

Luftbobler

Against The Grain: Dawn Richard Discusses Her “Sci-Fi” R&B

With this year's huge and ambitious GoldenHeart album, Dawn Richard has already set the bar high for pop music in 2013. Laurie Tuffrey met up with her to discuss the album, how Genesis and ballet are equal influences on her work and why P. Diddy's "a big ass dragon"

All The Glitter: Ira Kaplan Of Yo La Tengo’s Favourite Albums

Yo La Tengo’s frontman leads April Clare Welsh through a selection of his most played LPs

There’s A Riot Going On: Steve Mason Interviewed

Colm McAuliffe talks to Steve Mason about his new album and civil unrest

Hookworms

Pearl Mystic

Redemption Song: Bobby Liebling Of Pentagram Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks to the voice of rock & roll resilience, Bobby Liebling. Photograph by Jeff Lee

Jon Brooks

Shapwick

Simon Petrovitch Of Comanechi On Gardening

Originally published in the August Plant Journal, John Doran talks to the noise rock guitarist about tending one's own patch. Comanechi play the Lexington for Wire:Drill London on March 22nd

Many Lifetimes: An Interview With TVO

Broken20 label head TVO explores the zones between techno, drone and ambient to hypnotic and moving effect. He speaks to Rory Gibb about new album Red Night Variations in advance of Broken20's party in London this weekend, plus download a free album (see bottom)

John Grant

Pale Green Ghosts

George Pringle

Gulfo Dei Poeti

Sampling The Airwaves & Soundtracking A Morgue: Strange World Of Scanner

Ahead of his collaboration with Gazelle Twin at the Drill:London festival we're curating with Wire, Robin 'Scanner' Rimbaud talks Luke Turner through his musical career, from cassettes with Coil to scanning police airwaves for phone conversations, a Derek Jarman tribute record, dance scores and soundtracking a morgue

A Track By Track Review Of Ghost BC’s Infestissumam

Jamie Thomson, cycle-powered punk rocker, eagerly gives us his first reactions to the long awaited second album by Ghost BC, Infestissumam

Nematode Noise: An Interview With Hookworms

John Freeman meets Hookworms to find out how the Leeds group's debut album, Pearl Mystic, became a blast of rage and sadness, and why parents shouldn't be let loose on Facebook

Found Songs: Ólafur Arnalds’ Favourite Albums

The Icelandic neo-classical composer and producer takes a break from producing his cinematic soundscapes to pick out his 13 favourite records, ahead of his set at the Barbican tonight

Melancholy Euphoria: A Heterotic Interview & Full Album Stream

Lara Rix-Martin and Mike Paradinas of Heterotic and Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst talk to John Doran; stream their collaborative LP Love & Devotion in full here

F**king Hell! It’s Dinos Chapman’s Favourite Albums!

As he releases his first album Luftbobler, Dinos Chapman guides Luke Turner through his favourite 13 albums, from Ligeti to Bad Seeds, Talking Heads, Aphex and Basic Channel

The Banality Of The Beast: Lee Rourke’s Varroa Destructor

Kit Caless gets under the skin of Lee Rourke's inaugural poetry collection and his beautification of boredom

Vampish, Vulgar and Vacuous: Fellini’s La Citta Delle Donne Reappraised

Colm McAuliffe knees Fellini in the ghoulies having watched the director's La Citta Delle Donne (City Of Women), recently re-released on Blu-ray and DVD by Eureka Entertainment

Guapo

History Of The Visitation

Dadub

You Are Eternity

Paradise Found: Rockfort On Christophe & Powerdove

In our latest French music column, David McKenna delves into an album of unearthed rarities from 'avant-MOR' cult star Christophe, and recommends Powerdove's restless new LP Do You Burn

The Cribs

Payola

Cleaners From Venus

The Late District

Burning Down The House: Juju & Jordash Interviewed

Israel-via-Amsterdam duo Juju & Jordash trade in an eccentric, jazz-infused and emotionally involving form of electronic psychedelia. In advance of a London show this weekend, they catch up with Rory Gibb to discuss free jazz, improvisation and the politics of personal experience