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Noel's Straight Hedge VII: Punk Around The World

In the first 2013 edition of his Straight Hedge column, Noel Gardner takes a sojourn around the globe to uncover some quality chunks of punk for your willing ears

A Darkness In The West: Hacker Farm Interviewed

Hacker Farm repurpose old farming equipment, shortwave radios and busted electronics to transmit decrepit electronica for a country crumbling under ConDem rule. They speak to Ben Graham about self-sufficiency, the joys of circuit-bending and guerilla gigs outside cattle markets

Frightened Rabbit

Pedestrian Verse

Counting Down To Infinity: John Heckle Interviewed

With his raw and decidedly cosmic takes on house, Liverpool's John Heckle blasts off into deep space with only a cockpit's worth of hardware to keep him company. He speaks to Harry Sword about underage raving, missing records and his excellent new The Last Magic Maker mini-LP

Mountains

Centralia

The Golden Past: Marianne Faithfull’s Favourite Albums

Following the recent reissue of her landmark album Broken English, and in advance of her 50th anniversary as a performer next year, Marianne Faithfull tells Joel McIver about her 13 favourite LPs

Man Of God: Jim James Of My Morning Jacket Interviewed

My Bloody Valentine's mbv Track By Track By Ned Raggett

Ned Raggett stays up all night hitting refresh to bring you his perspective on mbv... i.e. it sounds like being hit on the head with a shovel and falling into a well half filled with honey

Bonfire Of The Sanities: KLF – Chaos, Magic, Music, Money

Cay McDermott probes the occult underbelly of the KLF - one of music's most enigmatic and provocative acts - via JMR Higgs' recently released and all together different biography of the band

Don't Look To The Skies: Flight Reviewed

Patrick Smith reviews Robert Zemeckis's aviation drama

Ducktails

The Flower Lane

Django Fever: A Hidden History Of Django Unchained

Stephen Grasso ponders some of the hidden influences and lesser-known historical antecedents to Tarantino's Django Unchained. Contains moderate spoilers

Zarjaz Of Tronics & Freakapuss: Being A Real Person Is Overrated

Is Zarjaz, aka Ziro Baby, the UK's most underground cult star? Dale Shaw conducts the second ever interview with this most fantastical of characters

New Order

Lost Sirens

Bloody Mary: American Mary Reviewed

Sean Kitching takes a look at Jen and Sylvia Soska's controversial body horror movie

Altered Head Space: An Interview With Anthroprophh

Anthroprophh, the new project of Paul Allen of Bristol voyagers The Heads, blasts off into inner space via kosmische drone and acid-frazzled guitar workouts. He speaks to Joseph Burnett about how writing his debut album provided a creative shot in the arm

Darkstar

News From Nowhere

Willesden To Karpathos: Yannis Of Foals On The Geography Of Holy Fire

Foals' new Flood & Moulder-produced album Holy Fire is a work of supreme confidence and bold scope. Yannis Philippakis talks to Luke Turner about the places that shaped it

Voivod

Target Earth

The Echo Of Youth: My Bloody Valentine Live

John Calvert takes his teenage dreams down to the Brixton Electric for a rare intimate gig by My Bloody Valentine.

Berberian At The Gate: Broadcast & The Death Knell Of Hauntology

Berberian Sound Studio

Reviewing Broadcast's OST for Berberian Sound Studio, Lee Arizuno casts a hex on the "painfully overwritten non-ology" of hauntology

Grouper

The Man Who Died In His Boat

How Giallo Can You Go? Antoni Maiovvi Interviewed

Anton Maiof, the man behind the Antoni Maiovvi mask, reveals the dark secrets of his chilling mutant Italo disco to Wyndham Wallace

Physical Resistance: Eric Clapton, Enoch Powell & Anti-Fascism

In an extract from his posthumously published anti-fascist history, Physical Resistance, Dave Hann recounts the events that lead to the birth of Rock Against Racism and pushed anti-fascism in to the mainstream

Boduf Songs

Burnt Up On Re-Entry

Riot Grrrl: A 20 Year Retrospective By Petra Davis

Petra Davis looks back across two decades at the liberating musical and political movement and assesses what its legacy is today

The Royal Noble Overlord Of Amazing Phrasing: Ian Dury’s Lyrical Legacy

Music writer and biographer Zoë Howe discusses the bittersweet nature of Jemima Dury's Hallo Sausages!, a selection of her father's lyrics and his final, posthumous, contribution to a celebrated career

Clampdown: Britpop Culture Wars, Kenickie & Shampoo

In an extract from her new book, Rhian E Jones discusses the relationship between Britpop culture - via Shampoo and Kenickie - social class and gender

This Is What Defeat Looks Like: Zero Dark Thirty Reviewed

Jason Ward reviews Kathryn Bigelow's dramatisation of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden

Behold! January’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Reggie Chamberlain-King, Mat Colegate, and Aug Stone discuss the comics kicking off their New Year

Esben & The Witch

Wash The Sins Not Only The Face

We Are Fucked & Going To Die: Everything Everything Interviewed

Everything Everything are back with a new album that explores depression and a new found seriousness. Laura Snapes is impressed