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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

State Of The Nation: Vini Reilly Interviewed

John Mullen visits one of the greatest guitarists of his generation at home where he is recuperating after a series of strokes. His inspiration is the kindness of strangers, just don't mention Margaret Thatcher...

Endless Boogie

Long Island

People Like Us: Some People Reappraised

Anthony Nield looks back at pre-Beatles rock'n'roll movie Some People, ahead of its screening at the BFI this Thursday

Salford Lads Cult: A Day In The Life Of GNOD

Following the recent release of their mighty Chaudelande album, John Freeman has an audience with Gnod and ends up playing sonic table-tennis and talking about astral travel, crazy Belgians and Eric Cantona

Jeepers Creepers: Marc Riley’s Favourite Albums

BBC 6 Music DJ Marc Riley and former member of The Fall, The Creepers and The Lost Soul Crusaders talks to John Doran about his favourite LPs

Autechre

Exai

A(nother) Conversation With Ralph Steadman and Ceri Levy

In the concluding part of an interview celebrating the publication of Extinct Boids, Ceri Levy and Ralph Steadman remember Steadman’s father, capture the importance of the natural world, and pay tribute to Zeno - ‘a sheep of certain wisdom’

Vanity Or Sanity? Self-Publishing In The Modern Age

Howard Male, author of the self-published novel Etc Etc Amen, weighs out the pros and cons of going it alone and its peculiar stigma

Hitched To A Sinking Ship: Unhitched Reviewed

Joshua Warren examines Richard Seymour's "extended political essay" Unhitched, but finds little new information and even less to celebrate in this latest attempt to unhitch The Hitch

Clark’s Desert Boo: Larry Clark’s Marfa Girl Reviewed

Patrick Smith ponders controversial director Larry Clark's latest offering

Conny Plank

Who's That Man

Lovers Not Fighters: Deftones Live

Nu what? At Brixton Academy, Mike Diver catches Deftones cementing their claim to be one of the most important rock groups of past decades. Live photography by Katja Ogrin

Iceage

You're Nothing

1,000 Ways To Say Yes By Eugene S. Robinson

Why punching people is like fucking sheep, and other pearls of wisdom from the pen of Eugene S. Robinson

Fahey’s A Jolly Good Fellow: In Search of Blind Joe Death Reviewed

Sean Kitching reviews a new documentary on the American guitar iconoclast.

Rewire Your Brain: An Interview With Endless Boogie

New York's Endless Boogie couldn't be more aptly named, frying minds with sprawling, blues-tinted jams that seem to chug on forever. With career-best album Long Island just released, Stevie Chick speaks to the band's Paul Major about psychedelic experiences and intuition

Mazes

Ores And Minerals

Why I Hate The Cult Of Bill Hicks, By John Doran

Based on a piece originally written for the dear departed Plan B magazine in 2007. With thanks to my then commissioning editors Frances Morgan and Kicking_K