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Phantom Flesh: Extreme Performance Artist Stelarc Interviewed

Our man in Poland, Filip Kalinowski interviews renowned artist Stelarc about the future of the body and human consciousness

Fela Kuti

The Best Of The Black President 2

Gnod

Chaudelande

Psychedelic Entropy: An Interview & Mix By Imaginary Forces

London's Anthoney J. Hart crafts dark and mind-altering electronic music, steeped in a love of UK rave culture and the psychedelic properties of looped sound. He speaks to Rory Gibb about old drum & bass 12"s and inner space, and has recorded us a mix - listen below

Playing The Long Game: Accrington Stanley Interviewed

Ged Babey talks to Dan O'Farrell, front man of the mighty Accrington Stanley, about what it's like being in one of the world's longest running - and least successful - indie groups

John Foxx & The Maths

Evidence

Redefining Dissonance: Sonic Youth Live At The Smart Bar Chicago 1985

Daniel Wray speaks to Lee Ranaldo, Steve Shelley, Michael Azerrad, Aaron Mullan, Santiago Durango and Nash Kato about the recent release of a Sonic Youth live recording from 1985, and recalls the astonishing force of a group reaching the peak of their powers

Ed Harcourt

Back Into The Woods

New Transmissions: Brendan Canty Of Deathfix & Fugazi Interviewed

With new band Deathfix, former Fugazi drummer Brendan Canty blasts off into glam-pop territory. He speaks to Glen Mcleod about teaming up with Richard Morel for this new project, filmmaking in knackered buildings and the near-psychic bonds that fueled Fugazi's incendiary live shows

Function

Incubation

Remake/Remodel: Karl Bartos Interviewed

Matt Lindsay talks to the former robot about his new album Off The Record. Photographs by Al Overdrive

Death Before Silence: Ed Harcourt’s Favourite Albums

Singer, songwriter, pianist and all-round bon viveur Ed Harcourt talks to Wyndham Wallace about his favourite records

Brave New Worlds: A Michael Moorcock Retrospective

With the collected memories and musings of Michael Butterworth, China Miéville and Moorcock himself Carol Huston delves in to the history of one of modern fiction's most influential trailblazers

I Fail To Remember: B.S. Johnson Thirty Years On

Forty years after his death, and as a new collection of his drama and prose is published, Aidan Moffat and Gareth Campesinos! remember B.S. Johnson to Fearghus Roulston and recount his influence on their own work

Menace And Innocence: Stoker Reviewed

Park Chan-Wook, the creator of mentalist classic Oldboy, arrives in Hollywood and sets about confounding what anybody might expect with this taut and sparkling thriller, says Ed Owen

Prurient

Through The Window

Ugandan Rainbow: Call Me Kuchu Reviewed

Gary Green takes a look at Call Me Kuchu, a film documenting the struggles of LGBT rights activist David Kato in Uganda

Rick Redbeard

No Selfish Heart

James Chance Et Les Contortions

Incorrigible

Cheating The “Living Death”: Suede Interviewed

They triumphed with their live return, and now they're about to release killer new album Bloodsports. Luke Turner speaks to Brett Anderson and Mat Osman about the fears around returning to the studio, giving up bad habits, and why Suede will always be a girls' band

Parisian Interzone: The History Of Celluloid Records

Vivien Goldman traces the history of the NYC/Paris hipster label that brought together new wave, jazz, post punk, afrobeat, electro, avant garde and metal. John Doran reviews the new anthology on Strut

Mogwai

Les Revenants

Baron

Columns

‘Satire Through Excessive Earnestness’: Autre Ne Veut Interviewed

Brooklyn's Autre Ne Veut pieces together devastatingly catchy synthetic pop songs using fragments of 80s and 90s R&B. With second album Anxiety he's emerged from his former anonymity, and speaks to Adam Bychawski about why that's a mixed blessing

Slowly But Surely: An Interview With The Pastels

In a rare interview, Stephen Pastel talks to John Freeman about why the seminal Glasgow band’s forthcoming album, Slow Summits, was a “struggle” and made with “love”

Palma Violets

180

Horns Up Ya Shitters! February’s Best Metal Reviewed

He's never early, he's always late, we're just waiting for Toby Cook's Columnus Metallicus...

Whose Vault Is It? Amoeba Music & The Ethics Of Reissuing Records

Amoeba Music's Vinyl Vaults project, digitising rare vinyl for download, seems like a brilliant idea on the surface. However, Laurie Tuffrey investigates the questions it raises about the legal and ethical issues around reissuing older music

Black Boned Angel

The End

Johnny Marr

The Messenger

Great Dame: David Bowie’s The Next Day Reviewed

Chris Roberts is inspired out of his clothes and on to the dancefloor by David Bowie's glorious return

The Ancestor’s Tale: An Interview With Richard Dawson

According to the title of his 2005 debut album, Richard Dawson is a Sings Songs And Plays Guitar kind of guy. The truth, as you might imagine, is a damn sight more expansive. On the eve of a UK tour, he speaks to Scott McKeating about counterpoints and community